Design and performance of the Exo-planet Characterisation Observatory (EChO) integrated payload

Bruce Swinyard; Marcel Tessenyi; Giovanna Tinetti; Ingo Waldmann; Paul Eccleston; Marc Ferlet; Ranah Irshad; Tanya Lim; Kevin Middleton; Tom Bradshaw; Martin Crook; Tom Hunt; Berend Winter; Ian Bryson; Naidu Bezawada; William Taylor; Neil Bowles; Enzo Pascale; Gianluca Morgante; Emanuele Pace; Alberto Adriani; Jean-Michel Reess; Pierre Drossart; Vincent Coudé du Foresto; Marc Ollivier; Roland Ottensamer; Mirek Rataj; Gonzalo Ramos Zapata; Jan-Rutger Schrader; Avri Selig; Kate Isaak; Martin Linder; Ludovic Puig; Paul Hartogh; Christophe Lovis; Giusi Micela; Ignasi Ribas; Ignas Snellen; Jean-Phillippe Beaulieu

doi:10.1117/12.2056433

28 August 2014 Design and performance of the Exo-planet Characterisation Observatory (EChO) integrated payload

Bruce Swinyard, Marcel Tessenyi, Giovanna Tinetti, Ingo Waldmann, Paul Eccleston, Marc Ferlet, Ranah Irshad, Tanya Lim, Kevin Middleton, Tom Bradshaw, Martin Crook, Tom Hunt, Berend Winter, Ian Bryson, Naidu Bezawada, William Taylor, Neil Bowles, Enzo Pascale, Gianluca Morgante, Emanuele Pace, Alberto Adriani, Jean-Michel Reess, Pierre Drossart, Vincent Coudé du Foresto, Marc Ollivier, Roland Ottensamer, Mirek Rataj, Gonzalo Ramos Zapata, Jan-Rutger Schrader, Avri Selig, Kate Isaak, Martin Linder, Ludovic Puig, Paul Hartogh, Christophe Lovis, Giusi Micela, Ignasi Ribas, Ignas Snellen, Jean-Phillippe Beaulieu

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Proceedings Volume 9143, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2014: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave; 91432E (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2056433
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2014, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

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.

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Bruce Swinyard, Marcel Tessenyi, Giovanna Tinetti, Ingo Waldmann, Paul Eccleston, Marc Ferlet, Ranah Irshad, Tanya Lim, Kevin Middleton, Tom Bradshaw, Martin Crook, Tom Hunt, Berend Winter, Ian Bryson, Naidu Bezawada, William Taylor, Neil Bowles, Enzo Pascale, Gianluca Morgante, Emanuele Pace, Alberto Adriani, Jean-Michel Reess, Pierre Drossart, Vincent Coudé du Foresto, Marc Ollivier, Roland Ottensamer, Mirek Rataj, Gonzalo Ramos Zapata, Jan-Rutger Schrader, Avri Selig, Kate Isaak, Martin Linder, Ludovic Puig, Paul Hartogh, Christophe Lovis, Giusi Micela, Ignasi Ribas, Ignas Snellen, and Jean-Phillippe Beaulieu "Design and performance of the Exo-planet Characterisation Observatory (EChO) integrated payload", Proc. SPIE 9143, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2014: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, 91432E (28 August 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2056433

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