The EChO payload instrument - an overview
- Autor(en)
- Paul Eccleston, Bruce M 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 D. 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
- Abstrakt
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.
- Organisation(en)
- Institut für Astrophysik
- Externe Organisation(en)
- Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, University College London, The Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, University of Oxford, Instituto Nazionale die Astrofisica (INAF), Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali , Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris XI - Paris-Sud, Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS), Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial, SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research , European Space Research & Technology Centre (ESA/ESTEC), Cardiff University, Università degli Studi di Firenze
- Journal
- Experimental Astronomy
- Band
- 40
- Seiten
- 427 - 447
- Anzahl der Seiten
- 21
- ISSN
- 0922-6435
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10686-014-9428-8
- Publikationsdatum
- 12-2015
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- ÖFOS 2012
- 103003 Astronomie, 103004 Astrophysik
- Schlagwörter
- ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
- Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science
- Link zum Portal
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/the-echo-payload-instrument--an-overview(8307c9f0-0ce6-4d9a-9555-5dff9dd8eb1f).html