The Ariel FGS - current design and implementation
- Autor(en)
- Konrad R. Skup, Miroslaw Rataj, Piotr Wawer, Mateusz Sobiecki, Kamil Ber, Konrad Rutkowski, Przemysław Nita, Grzegorz Szymanski, Marianna Fulara, Marcin Sobolewski, Nils Thernstrom, Łukasz Kuryłowicz, Daniel Półtorak, Aleksandra Mirońska, Marek Winkler, Maurycy Ciarka, Bradley Neuse, Roland Ottensamer, Gerald Mösenlechner, Armin Luntzer, Warren Holmes, Renaud Goullioud, Mauro Focardi, Raoul Grimoldi
- Abstrakt
The FGS is one of two scientific instruments on board the ESA ARIEL space telescope, which ESA plans to launch in 2029. The aim of the mission is to characterize the atmospheres of several hundred different exoplanets. The FGS is an opto-electronic instrument – a photometer and a near infra-red spectrometer. Although FGS stands for Fine Guidance System, in fact it has two main goals: to deliver scientific data of observed exoplanets, precisely speaking, their atmospheres, and to support the spacecraft’s AOCS with very precise pointing and guiding towards observation objects. This paper presents an overview of the current FGS design and implementation. The instrument is in the middle step between successfully passed iPDR and upcoming iCDR. Up to now, the team successfully built a prototype of the instrument, and is working on the manufacturing of the engineering and engineering-qualification models.
- Organisation(en)
- Institut für Astrophysik
- Externe Organisation(en)
- Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS), California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Instituto Nazionale die Astrofisica (INAF)
- Band
- 13092
- Anzahl der Seiten
- 6
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3019545
- Publikationsdatum
- 07-2024
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- ÖFOS 2012
- 103003 Astronomie, 103038 Weltraumforschung, 102022 Softwareentwicklung
- Schlagwörter
- ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Condensed Matter Physics, Computer Science Applications, Applied Mathematics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Link zum Portal
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/cbf590c3-f94a-47a6-a139-ac36c3573aa4