The instrument control unit of the AIRS instrument on-board the ARIEL mission: design status after PDR

Vladimiro Noce; Mauro Focardi; Pierpaolo Merola; Marina Vela Nunez; Anna Maria Di Giorgio; Sebastiano Ligori; Vito Capobianco; Leonardo Corcione; Donata Bonino; Natalia Auricchio; Maria Farina; Luca Serafini; Alessandra Tortora; Alessio Pannocchia; Marco Verna; Emanuele Pace; Giampaolo Preti; Enzo Pascale; Paul Eccleston; Salma Fahmy; Lucile Desjonqueres; Alexander Davidson; Elisabetta Tommasi; Fulvio De Persio; Delphine Jollet; Ludovic Puig; Giuseppina Micela; Giuseppe Malaguti; Giovanna Tinetti

doi:10.1117/12.3017776

23 August 2024 The instrument control unit of the AIRS instrument on-board the ARIEL mission: design status after PDR

Vladimiro Noce, Mauro Focardi, Pierpaolo Merola, Marina Vela Nunez, Anna Maria Di Giorgio, Sebastiano Ligori, Vito Capobianco, Leonardo Corcione, Donata Bonino, Natalia Auricchio, Maria Farina, Luca Serafini, Alessandra Tortora, Alessio Pannocchia, Marco Verna, Emanuele Pace, Giampaolo Preti, Enzo Pascale, Paul Eccleston, Salma Fahmy, Lucile Desjonqueres, Alexander Davidson, Elisabetta Tommasi, Fulvio De Persio, Delphine Jollet, Ludovic Puig, Giuseppina Micela, Giuseppe Malaguti, Giovanna Tinetti

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Proceedings Volume 13092, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave; 130924C (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3017776
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2024, Yokohama, Japan

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ARIEL (Atmospheric Remote-sensing InfraRed Large-survey) is the fourth medium-class mission (M4) of the European Space Agency, part of the Cosmic Vision program, whose launch is planned by late 2029. ARIEL aims to study the composition of exoplanet atmospheres, their formation and evolution. The ARIEL’s target will be a sample of about 1000 planets observed with one or more of the following methods: transit, eclipse and phase-curve spectroscopy, in both visible and infrared light. The scientific payload is composed by a reflective telescope having a 1m-class elliptical primary mirror, built in solid Aluminum, and two focal-plane instruments: FGS and AIRS. FGS (Fine Guidance System)3 has the double purpose of performing photometry (0.50-0.55 µm) and low resolution spectrometry over three bands (from 0.8 to 1.95 µm) and, simultaneously, to provide data to the spacecraft AOCS (Attitude and Orbit Control System). AIRS (ARIEL InfraRed Spectrometer) instrument will perform IR spectrometry in two wavelength ranges: between 1.95 and 3.9 µm (with a spectral resolution R > 100) and between 3.9 and 7.8 µm with a spectral resolution R > 30. This paper provides the status of the ICU (Instrument Control Unit), an electronic box whose purpose is to command and supply power to the AIRS warm front-end (as well as acquire science data from its two channels) and to command and control the TCU (Telescope Control Unit).

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Vladimiro Noce, Mauro Focardi, Pierpaolo Merola, Marina Vela Nunez, Anna Maria Di Giorgio, Sebastiano Ligori, Vito Capobianco, Leonardo Corcione, Donata Bonino, Natalia Auricchio, Maria Farina, Luca Serafini, Alessandra Tortora, Alessio Pannocchia, Marco Verna, Emanuele Pace, Giampaolo Preti, Enzo Pascale, Paul Eccleston, Salma Fahmy, Lucile Desjonqueres, Alexander Davidson, Elisabetta Tommasi, Fulvio De Persio, Delphine Jollet, Ludovic Puig, Giuseppina Micela, Giuseppe Malaguti, and Giovanna Tinetti "The instrument control unit of the AIRS instrument on-board the ARIEL mission: design status after PDR", Proc. SPIE 13092, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, 130924C (23 August 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3017776

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