The EChO payload instrument – an overview

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作者
Paul Eccleston
Bruce Swinyard
Marcel Tessenyi
Giovanna Tinetti
Ingo Waldmann
Marc Ferlet
Ranah Irshad
Tanya Lim
Kevin Middleton
Tom Bradshaw
Martin Crook
Tom Hunt
Berend Winter
Ian Bryson
Naidu Bezawada
William Taylor
Neil Bowles
Enzo Pascale
Gianluca Morgante
Emanuele Pace
Alberto Adriani
Jean-Michel Reess
Marc Ollivier
Roland Ottensamer
Mirek Rataj
Gonzalo Ramos Zapata
Jan-Rutger Schrader
Avri Selig
Kate Isaak
Martin Linder
Ludovic Puig
机构
[1] RAL Space,Department Physics and Astronomy
[2] STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory,Department Atmospheric Physics
[3] Harwell Oxford,Department Physics and Astronomy
[4] University College London,undefined
[5] Technology Department,undefined
[6] STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory,undefined
[7] Harwell Oxford,undefined
[8] Mullard Space Science Laboratory,undefined
[9] Holmbury St. Mary,undefined
[10] Dorking,undefined
[11] UK ATC,undefined
[12] Royal Observatory,undefined
[13] Edinburgh,undefined
[14] Oxford University,undefined
[15] Cardiff University,undefined
[16] INAF-IASF,undefined
[17] Area della Ricerca CNR-INAF,undefined
[18] University of Florence,undefined
[19] INAF-IAPS,undefined
[20] Observatoire de Paris,undefined
[21] LESIA,undefined
[22] Meudon,undefined
[23] IAS,undefined
[24] Université de Paris-Sud,undefined
[25] University of Vienna,undefined
[26] Institut fur Astrophysik,undefined
[27] Space Research Centre,undefined
[28] Polish Academy of Science,undefined
[29] INTA,undefined
[30] Carretera de Ajalvir,undefined
[31] SRON,undefined
[32] Netherlands Institute for Space Research,undefined
[33] ESA ESTEC,undefined
来源
Experimental Astronomy | 2015年 / 40卷
关键词
EChO; Instrument; Spectrometer; Exoplanet; Transit; Spectroscopy;
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摘要
The Exoplanet Characterisation Observatory (EChO) mission was one of the proposed candidates for the European Space Agency’s third medium mission within the Cosmic Vision Framework. EChO was designed to observe the spectra from transiting exo-planets in the 0.55–11 micron band with a goal of covering from 0.4 to 16 micron. The mission and its associated scientific instrument has undergone a rigorous technical evaluation phase. This paper provides an overview of the payload instrument design for the mission, showing how the system acts together to fulfill the mission objectives. We report on the results of an extensive simulation of the instrument performance and show that EChO would have been photon noise dominated for targets from a faint limit similar to GJ1214 to the brightest targets similar to 55Cnc.
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页码:427 / 447
页数:20
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