Design and performance of the Exo-planet Characterisation Observatory (EChO) integrated payload
- Author(s)
- Bruce M Swinyard, Marcel Tessenyi, Giovanna Tinetti, Roland Ottensamer
- Abstract
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 exoplanets in the 0.55-11 micron band with a goal of covering from 0.4 to 16 microns. The mission and its associated scientific instrument has now undergone a rigorous technical evaluation phase and we report here on the outcome of that study phase, update the design status and review the expected performance of the integrated payload and satellite.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Astrophysics
- External organisation(s)
- Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, University College London
- No. of pages
- 12
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2056433
- Publication date
- 08-2014
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103003 Astronomy, 103004 Astrophysics
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Condensed Matter Physics, Applied Mathematics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Computer Science Applications
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/33a39ffc-38c5-4663-9e28-0d3175a151a3