Ariel: Enabling planetary science across light-years
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
2021-04-13 v1 Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Abstract
Ariel, the Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey, was adopted as the fourth medium-class mission in ESA's Cosmic Vision programme to be launched in 2029. During its 4-year mission, Ariel will study what exoplanets are made of, how they formed and how they evolve, by surveying a diverse sample of about 1000 extrasolar planets, simultaneously in visible and infrared wavelengths. It is the first mission dedicated to measuring the chemical composition and thermal structures of hundreds of transiting exoplanets, enabling planetary science far beyond the boundaries of the Solar System. The payload consists of an off-axis Cassegrain telescope (primary mirror 1100 mm x 730 mm ellipse) and two separate instruments (FGS and AIRS) covering simultaneously 0.5-7.8 micron spectral range. The satellite is best placed into an L2 orbit to maximise the thermal stability and the field of regard. The payload module is passively cooled via a series of V-Groove radiators; the detectors for the AIRS are the only items that require active cooling via an active Ne JT cooler. The Ariel payload is developed by a consortium of more than 50 institutes from 16 ESA countries, which include the UK, France, Italy, Belgium, Poland, Spain, Austria, Denmark, Ireland, Portugal, Czech Republic, Hungary, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Estonia, and a NASA contribution.
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@article{arxiv.2104.04824,
title = {Ariel: Enabling planetary science across light-years},
author = {Giovanna Tinetti and Paul Eccleston and Carole Haswell and Pierre-Olivier Lagage and Jérémy Leconte and Theresa Lüftinger and Giusi Micela and Michel Min and Göran Pilbratt and Ludovic Puig and Mark Swain and Leonardo Testi and Diego Turrini and Bart Vandenbussche and Maria Rosa Zapatero Osorio and Anna Aret and Jean-Philippe Beaulieu and Lars Buchhave and Martin Ferus and Matt Griffin and Manuel Guedel and Paul Hartogh and Pedro Machado and Giuseppe Malaguti and Enric Pallé and Mirek Rataj and Tom Ray and Ignasi Ribas and Robert Szabó and Jonathan Tan and Stephanie Werner and Francesco Ratti and Carsten Scharmberg and Jean-Christophe Salvignol and Nathalie Boudin and Jean-Philippe Halain and Martin Haag and Pierre-Elie Crouzet and Ralf Kohley and Kate Symonds and Florian Renk and Andrew Caldwell and Manuel Abreu and Gustavo Alonso and Jerome Amiaux and Michel Berthé and Georgia Bishop and Neil Bowles and Manuel Carmona and Deirdre Coffey and Josep Colomé and Martin Crook and Lucile Désjonqueres and José J. Díaz and Rachel Drummond and Mauro Focardi and Jose M. Gómez and Warren Holmes and Matthijs Krijger and Zsolt Kovacs and Tom Hunt and Richardo Machado and Gianluca Morgante and Marc Ollivier and Roland Ottensamer and Emanuele Pace and Teresa Pagano and Enzo Pascale and Chris Pearson and Søren Møller Pedersen and Moshe Pniel and Stéphane Roose and Giorgio Savini and Richard Stamper and Peter Szirovicza and Janos Szoke and Ian Tosh and Francesc Vilardell and Joanna Barstow and Luca Borsato and Sarah Casewell and Quentin Changeat and Benjamin Charnay and Svatopluk Civiš and Vincent Coudé du Foresto and Athena Coustenis and Nicolas Cowan and Camilla Danielski and Olivier Demangeon and Pierre Drossart and Billy N. Edwards and Gabriella Gilli and Therese Encrenaz and Csaba Kiss and Anastasia Kokori and Masahiro Ikoma and Juan Carlos Morales and João Mendonça and Andrea Moneti and Lorenzo Mugnai and Antonio García Muñoz and Ravit Helled and Mihkel Kama and Yamila Miguel and Nikos Nikolaou and Isabella Pagano and Olja Panic and Miriam Rengel and Hans Rickman and Marco Rocchetto and Subhajit Sarkar and Franck Selsis and Jonathan Tennyson and Angelos Tsiaras and Olivia Venot and Krisztián Vida and Ingo P. Waldmann and Sergey Yurchenko and Gyula Szabó and Rob Zellem and Ahmed Al-Refaie and Javier Perez Alvarez and Lara Anisman and Axel Arhancet and Jaume Ateca and Robin Baeyens and John R. Barnes and Taylor Bell and Serena Benatti and Katia Biazzo and Maria Błęcka and Aldo Stefano Bonomo and José Bosch and Diego Bossini and Jeremy Bourgalais and Daniele Brienza and Anna Brucalassi and Giovanni Bruno and Hamish Caines and Simon Calcutt and Tiago Campante and Rodolfo Canestrari and Nick Cann and Giada Casali and Albert Casas and Giuseppe Cassone and Christophe Cara and Manuel Carmona and Ludmila Carone and Nathalie Carrasco and Quentin Changeat and Paolo Chioetto and Fausto Cortecchia and Markus Czupalla and Katy L. Chubb and Angela Ciaravella and Antonio Claret and Riccardo Claudi and Claudio Codella and Maya Garcia Comas and Gianluca Cracchiolo and Patricio Cubillos and Vania Da Peppo and Leen Decin and Clemence Dejabrun and Elisa Delgado-Mena and Anna Di Giorgio and Emiliano Diolaiti and Caroline Dorn and Vanessa Doublier and Eric Doumayrou and Georgina Dransfield and Luc Dumaye and Emma Dunford and Antonio Jimenez Escobar and Vincent Van Eylen and Maria Farina and Davide Fedele and Alejandro Fernández and Benjamin Fleury and Sergio Fonte and Jean Fontignie and Luca Fossati and Bernd Funke and Camille Galy and Zoltán Garai and Andrés García and Alberto García-Rigo and Antonio Garufi and Giuseppe Germano Sacco and Paolo Giacobbe and Alejandro Gómez and Arturo Gonzalez and Francisco Gonzalez-Galindo and Davide Grassi and Caitlin Griffith and Mario Giuseppe Guarcello and Audrey Goujon and Amélie Gressier and Aleksandra Grzegorczyk and Tristan Guillot and Gloria Guilluy and Peter Hargrave and Marie-Laure Hellin and Enrique Herrero and Matt Hills and Benoit Horeau and Yuichi Ito and Niels Christian Jessen and Petr Kabath and Szilárd Kálmán and Yui Kawashima and Tadahiro Kimura and Antonín Knížek and Laura Kreidberg and Ronald Kruid and Diederik J. M. Kruijssen and Petr Kubelík and Luisa Lara and Sebastien Lebonnois and David Lee and Maxence Lefevre and Tim Lichtenberg and Daniele Locci and Matteo Lombini and Alejandro Sanchez Lopez and Andrea Lorenzani and Ryan MacDonald and Laura Magrini and Jesus Maldonado and Emmanuel Marcq and Alessandra Migliorini and Darius Modirrousta-Galian and Karan Molaverdikhani and Sergio Molinari and Paul Mollière and Vincent Moreau and Giuseppe Morello and Gilles Morinaud and Mario Morvan and Julianne I. Moses and Salima Mouzali and Nariman Nakhjiri and Luca Naponiello and Norio Narita and Valerio Nascimbeni and Athanasia Nikolaou and Vladimiro Noce and Fabrizio Oliva and Pietro Palladino and Andreas Papageorgiou and Vivien Parmentier and Giovanni Peres and Javier Pérez and Santiago Perez-Hoyos and Manuel Perger and Cesare Cecchi Pestellini and Antonino Petralia and Anne Philippon and Arianna Piccialli and Marco Pignatari and Giampaolo Piotto and Linda Podio and Gianluca Polenta and Giampaolo Preti and Theodor Pribulla and Manuel Lopez Puertas and Monica Rainer and Jean-Michel Reess and Paul Rimmer and Séverine Robert and Albert Rosich and Loic Rossi and Duncan Rust and Ayman Saleh and Nicoletta Sanna and Eugenio Schisano and Laura Schreiber and Victor Schwartz and Antonio Scippa and Bálint Seli and Sho Shibata and Caroline Simpson and Oliver Shorttle and N. Skaf and Konrad Skup and Mateusz Sobiecki and Sergio Sousa and Alessandro Sozzetti and Judit Šponer and Lukas Steiger and Paolo Tanga and Paul Tackley and Jake Taylor and Matthias Tecza and Luca Terenzi and Pascal Tremblin and Andrea Tozzi and Amaury Triaud and Loïc Trompet and Shang-Min Tsai and Maria Tsantaki and Diana Valencia and Ann Carine Vandaele and Mathieu Van der Swaelmen and Adibekyan Vardan and Gautam Vasisht and Allona Vazan and Ciro Del Vecchio and Dave Waltham and Piotr Wawer and Thomas Widemann and Paulina Wolkenberg and Gordon Hou Yip and Yuk Yung and Mantas Zilinskas and Tiziano Zingales and Paola Zuppella},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.04824},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
Ariel Definition Study Report, 147 pages. Reviewed by ESA Science Advisory Structure in November 2020. Original document available at: https://www.cosmos.esa.int/documents/1783156/3267291/Ariel_RedBook_Nov2020.pdf/