Focardi, Mauro;
Noce, Vladimiro;
Merola, Pierpaolo;
Di Giorgio, Anna;
Ligori, Sebastiano;
Corcione, Leonardo;
Capobianco, Vito;
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(2024)
The Ariel payload electrical and electronic architecture: a summary of the current design and implementation status.
In: Coyle, Laura E and Matsuura, Shuji and Perrin, Marshall D, (eds.)
Proceedings of SPIE: Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave.
(pp. p. 1309249).
SPIE: Bellingham, WA USA.
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Abstract
Ariel is the M4 mission of the ESA’s Cosmic Vision Program 2015-2025, whose aim is to characterize by lowresolution transit spectroscopy the atmospheres of over one thousand warm and hot exoplanets orbiting nearby stars. It has been selected by ESA in March 2018 and adopted in November 2020 to be flown, then, in 2029. It is the first survey mission dedicated to measuring the chemical composition and thermal structures of the atmospheres of hundreds of transiting exoplanets, in order to enable planetary science far beyond the boundaries of the Solar System. The Payload (P/L) is based on a cold section (PLM – Payload Module) working at cryogenic temperatures and a warm section, located within the Spacecraft (S/C) Service Vehicle Module (SVM) and hosting five warm units operated at ambient temperature (253-313 K). The P/L and its electrical, electronic and data handling architecture has been designed and optimized to perform transit spectroscopy from space during primary and secondary planetary eclipses in order to achieve a large set of unbiased observations to shed light and fully understand the nature of exoplanets atmospheres, retrieving information about planets interior and determining the key factors affecting the formation and evolution of planetary systems.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
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| Title: | The Ariel payload electrical and electronic architecture: a summary of the current design and implementation status |
| Event: | SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2024 |
| Dates: | 16 Jun 2024 - 22 Jun 2024 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1117/12.3018741 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.3018741 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Sensors; Equipment; Field programmable gate arrays; Interfaces; Design; Multiplexers; Control systems |
| 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/10197945 |
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