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23 August 2024 AIRS: ARIEL IR spectrometer development status
Jérôme Martignac, Jerome Amiaux, Thomas Capocci, Clara Bataillon, Marion Baumann, Michel Berthé, Christophe Cara, Cyrille Delisle, Achrène Direk, Luc Dumaye, Jean Fontignie, Benoît Horeau, Norma Hurtado, Duc-Dat Huynh, Grégory Kaszubiak, Pierre-Olivier Lagage, Isabelle Le Mer, Nathan Leguay, Michel Lortholary, Vincent Moreau, Patrick Mulet, Thibault Pichon, Léna Provost, Bastien Reboul, Diana Renaud, Michel Talvard, Thierry Tourrette, François Visticot, Axel Arhancet, Damien Bachet, Nicolas Berton, Christophe Cossou, Yannick Drouen, Mickaël Lacroix, Lexane Picault, Hervé Le Provost, Virgile Meyer, Nicolas Solenne, Olivier Tellier, Antoine Arondel, Bruno Crane, Jean-Pierre Dubois, Clémence de Jabrun, François Langlet, Dylan Le Claire, Benoît Lecomte, Antoine Maillot, Gilles Morinaud, Marc Ollivier, Anne Philippon, Catherine Tamiatto, Stéphane Tosti, Xueyan Zhang, Vincent Lapeyrere, Marion Bonafous, Jérôme Parisot, Eitan Pechevis, Jean-Michel Reess, Didier Zegadanin, Jean-Philippe Beaulieu, Virginie Batista, Pierre Drossart, Salma Fahmy, Delphine Jollet, Ludovic Puig, Thierry Tirolien, Jean-Christophe Salvignol, Elisa Baldit, Pascale Danto, Gilles Hervet, Yann Le Huedet, Océane Maisonnave, Paul Eccleston, Rachel Drummond, Georgia Bishop, Davide Bruzzi, Andrew Caldwell, Martin Caldwell, Lucile Desjonqueres, Martin Whalley, Enzo Pascale, Gianluca Morgante, Mauro Focardi, Emanuele Pace, Anna Maria Di Giorgio, Sebastiano Ligori, Adrien Défossé, Mallaury Guerrier
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Abstract
AIRS is the infrared spectroscopic instrument of ARIEL: Atmospheric Remote‐sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large‐survey mission adopted in November 2020 as the Cosmic Vision M4 ESA mission and planned to be launched in 2029 by an Ariane 6 from Kourou toward a large amplitude orbit around L2 for a 4-year mission. Within the scientific payload, AIRS will perform transit spectroscopy of over 1000 exoplanets to complete a statistical survey, including gas giants, Neptunes, super-Earths and Earth-size planets around a wide range of host stars. All these collected spectroscopic data will be a major asset to answer the key scientific questions addressed by this mission: what are exoplanets made of? How do planets and planetary systems form? How do planets and their atmospheres evolve over time? The AIRS instrument is based on two independent channels covering 1.95-3.90 µm (CH0) and 3.90-7.80 µm (CH1) wavelength ranges with prism-based dispersive elements producing spectra of low resolutions R>100 in CH0 and R>30 in CH1 on two independent detectors. The spectrometer is designed to provide a Nyquist-sampled spectrum in both spatial and spectral directions to limit the sensitivity of measurements to the jitter noise and intra pixels pattern during the long (10 hours) transit spectroscopy exposures. A full instrument overview will be presented covering the thermo-mechanical design of the instrument functioning in a 60 K environment, up to the detection and acquisition chain of both channels based on 2 HgCdTe detectors actively cooled to below 42 K. This overview will present updated information of phase C studies, in particular on the assembly and testing of prototypes that are highly representative of the future engineering model that will be used as an instrument-level qualification model.
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(2024) Published by SPIE. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.
Jérôme Martignac, Jerome Amiaux, Thomas Capocci, Clara Bataillon, Marion Baumann, Michel Berthé, Christophe Cara, Cyrille Delisle, Achrène Direk, Luc Dumaye, Jean Fontignie, Benoît Horeau, Norma Hurtado, Duc-Dat Huynh, Grégory Kaszubiak, Pierre-Olivier Lagage, Isabelle Le Mer, Nathan Leguay, Michel Lortholary, Vincent Moreau, Patrick Mulet, Thibault Pichon, Léna Provost, Bastien Reboul, Diana Renaud, Michel Talvard, Thierry Tourrette, François Visticot, Axel Arhancet, Damien Bachet, Nicolas Berton, Christophe Cossou, Yannick Drouen, Mickaël Lacroix, Lexane Picault, Hervé Le Provost, Virgile Meyer, Nicolas Solenne, Olivier Tellier, Antoine Arondel, Bruno Crane, Jean-Pierre Dubois, Clémence de Jabrun, François Langlet, Dylan Le Claire, Benoît Lecomte, Antoine Maillot, Gilles Morinaud, Marc Ollivier, Anne Philippon, Catherine Tamiatto, Stéphane Tosti, Xueyan Zhang, Vincent Lapeyrere, Marion Bonafous, Jérôme Parisot, Eitan Pechevis, Jean-Michel Reess, Didier Zegadanin, Jean-Philippe Beaulieu, Virginie Batista, Pierre Drossart, Salma Fahmy, Delphine Jollet, Ludovic Puig, Thierry Tirolien, Jean-Christophe Salvignol, Elisa Baldit, Pascale Danto, Gilles Hervet, Yann Le Huedet, Océane Maisonnave, Paul Eccleston, Rachel Drummond, Georgia Bishop, Davide Bruzzi, Andrew Caldwell, Martin Caldwell, Lucile Desjonqueres, Martin Whalley, Enzo Pascale, Gianluca Morgante, Mauro Focardi, Emanuele Pace, Anna Maria Di Giorgio, Sebastiano Ligori, Adrien Défossé, and Mallaury Guerrier "AIRS: ARIEL IR spectrometer development status", Proc. SPIE 13092, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, 130921D (23 August 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3019926
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