The detector control unit of the fine guidance sensor instrument on-board the ARIEL mission: design status

Vladimiro Noce; Mauro Focardi; Marina Vela Nunez; Luca Naponiello; Andrea Lorenzani; Raoul Grimoldi; Elio Mangraviti; Luca Carli; Kamil Ber; Miroslaw Rataj; Konrad Rutkowski; Konrad Skup; Przemyslaw Nita; Giuseppina Micela; Giuseppe Malaguti; Natalia Auricchio; Emanuele Pace; Giampaolo Preti; Enzo Pascale; Giovanna Tinetti; Paul Eccleston; Elisabetta Tommasi; Mario Salatti; Raffaele Piazzolla; Pietro Bolli; Renzo Nesti; Marcella Iuzzolino; Luca Carbonaro; Ciro Del Vecchio; Debora Ferruzzi; Federico Miceli; Anna Brucalassi; Gilberto Falcini; Andrea Tozzi; Daniele Gottini

doi:10.1117/12.2628327

27 August 2022 The detector control unit of the fine guidance sensor instrument on-board the ARIEL mission: design status

Vladimiro Noce, Mauro Focardi, Marina Vela Nunez, Luca Naponiello, Andrea Lorenzani, Raoul Grimoldi, Elio Mangraviti, Luca Carli, Kamil Ber, Miroslaw Rataj, Konrad Rutkowski, Konrad Skup, Przemyslaw Nita, Giuseppina Micela, Giuseppe Malaguti, Natalia Auricchio, Emanuele Pace, Giampaolo Preti, Enzo Pascale, Giovanna Tinetti, Paul Eccleston, Elisabetta Tommasi, Mario Salatti, Raffaele Piazzolla, Pietro Bolli, Renzo Nesti, Marcella Iuzzolino, Luca Carbonaro, Ciro Del Vecchio, Debora Ferruzzi, Federico Miceli, Anna Brucalassi, Gilberto Falcini, Andrea Tozzi, Daniele Gottini

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Proceedings Volume 12180, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave; 1218046 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2628327
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2022, Montréal, Québec, Canada

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ARIEL is an ESA mission whose scientific goal is to investigate exoplanetary atmospheres. The payload is composed by two instruments: AIRS (ARIEL IR Spectrometer) and FGS (Fine Guidance System). The FGS detection chain is composed by two HgCdTe detectors and by the cold Front End Electronics (SIDECAR), kept at cryogenic temperatures, interfacing with the F-DCU (FGS Detector Control Unit) boards that we will describe thoroughly in this paper. The F-DCU are situated in the warm side of the payload in a box called FCU (FGS Control Unit) and contribute to the FGS VIS/NIR imaging and NIR spectroscopy. The F-DCU performs several tasks: drives the detectors, processes science data and housekeeping telemetries, manages the commands exchange between the FGS/DPU (Data Processing Unit) and the SIDECARs and provides high quality voltages to the detectors. This paper reports the F-DCU status, describing its architecture, the operation and the activities, past and future necessary for its development.

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Vladimiro Noce, Mauro Focardi, Marina Vela Nunez, Luca Naponiello, Andrea Lorenzani, Raoul Grimoldi, Elio Mangraviti, Luca Carli, Kamil Ber, Miroslaw Rataj, Konrad Rutkowski, Konrad Skup, Przemyslaw Nita, Giuseppina Micela, Giuseppe Malaguti, Natalia Auricchio, Emanuele Pace, Giampaolo Preti, Enzo Pascale, Giovanna Tinetti, Paul Eccleston, Elisabetta Tommasi, Mario Salatti, Raffaele Piazzolla, Pietro Bolli, Renzo Nesti, Marcella Iuzzolino, Luca Carbonaro, Ciro Del Vecchio, Debora Ferruzzi, Federico Miceli, Anna Brucalassi, Gilberto Falcini, Andrea Tozzi, and Daniele Gottini "The detector control unit of the fine guidance sensor instrument on-board the ARIEL mission: design status", Proc. SPIE 12180, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, 1218046 (27 August 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2628327

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