Puig, L;
Pilbratt, G;
Heske, A;
Escudero, I;
Crouzet, PE;
de Vogeleer, B;
Symonds, K;
... Wolkenberg, P; + view all
(2018)
The phase a study of the ESA M4 mission candidate ARIEL.
Experimental Astronomy
, 46
(1)
pp. 211-239.
10.1007/s10686-018-9604-3.
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Abstract
ARIEL, the Atmospheric Remote sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large survey, is one of the three M-class mission candidates competing for the M4 launch slot within the Cosmic Vision science programme of the European Space Agency (ESA). As such, ARIEL has been the subject of a Phase A study that involved European industry, research institutes and universities from ESA member states. This study is now completed and the M4 down-selection is expected to be concluded in November 2017. ARIEL is a concept for a dedicated mission to measure the chemical composition and structure of hundreds of exoplanet atmospheres using the technique of transit spectroscopy. ARIEL targets extend from gas giants (Jupiter or Neptune-like) to super-Earths in the very hot to warm zones of F to M-type host stars, opening up the way to large-scale, comparative planetology that would place our own Solar System in the context of other planetary systems in the Milky Way. A technical and programmatic review of the ARIEL mission was performed between February and May 2017, with the objective of assessing the readiness of the mission to progress to the Phase B1 study. No critical issues were identified and the mission was deemed technically feasible within the M4 programmatic boundary conditions. In this paper we give an overview of the final mission concept for ARIEL as of the end of the Phase A study, from scientific, technical and operational perspectives.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The phase a study of the ESA M4 mission candidate ARIEL |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10686-018-9604-3 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10686-018-9604-3 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/. |
| Keywords: | ARIEL, Cosmic vision, M4, ESA, Phase a study, Exoplanets, Transmission and eclipse spectroscopy |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10058251 |
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