Mr. Martin S. Whalley Profile

Martin S. Whalley

at Rutherford Appleton Lab

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Publications (12)

Proceedings Article | 23 August 2024 Presentation + Paper

The Ariel payload design post-PDR

Paul Eccleston, Andrew Caldwell, Georgia Bishop, Lucile Desjonqueres, Rachel Drummond, Alex Davidson, Martin Whalley, Martin Caldwell, Chris Pearson, Caroline Simpson, Sandy Fok, Davide Bruzzi, Alex Davies, Mark Anderson, Pranav Umesh, Enzo Pascale, Gianluca Morgante, Mauro Focardi, Giorgio Savini, Marc Ollivier, Miroslaw Rataj, Giuseppe Malaguti, Giovanna Tinetti, Andrea Tozzi, Paolo Chioetto, Emanuele Pace, Paola Zuppella, Giampaolo Preti, Christophe Serre, Jose Gomez, Gustavo Alonso, Javier Perez, Neil Bowles, Keith Nowicki, Jérôme Martignac, Michel Berthé, Pascale Danto, Martin Crook, Matthew Hills, Charles Padley, Semu Makinen, Zsolt Kovacs, Janos Szoke, Peter Szirovicza, Mateusz Sobiecki, Konrad Skup, Piotr Wawer, Roland Ottensamer, Warren Holmes, Renaud Goullioud, Markus Czupalla, Niels Christian Jessen, Soren Pedersen, Tom Ray, Deirdre Coffey, Lukas Steiger, Carlos Compostizo, Ricardo Machado, Andrea Bocchieri, Lorenzo Mugnai, Stephan Birkmann, Salma Fahmy, Ludovic Puig, Delphine Jollet, Anders Svedevall, Thierry Tirolien, Jean-Christophe Salvignol, Jean-Philippe Halain

Proceedings Volume 13092, 130921B (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3019713

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Design, Equipment, Space operations, Sensors, Spectroscopy, Interfaces, Infrared spectroscopy, Aluminum, Optical benches

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The Ariel space mission will characterize spectroscopically the atmospheres of a large and diverse sample of hundreds of exoplanets. Through the study of targets with a wide range of planetary parameters (mass, density, equilibrium temperature) and host star types the origin for the diversity observed in known exoplanets will be better understood. Ariel is an ESA Medium class science mission (M4) with a spacecraft bus developed by industry under contract to ESA, and a Payload provided by a consortium of national funding agencies in ESA member states, plus contributions from NASA, the CSA and JAXA. The payload is based on a 1-meter class telescope operated at below 60K, built all in Aluminium, which feeds two science instruments. A multi-channel photometer and low-resolution spectrometer instrument (the FGS, Fine Guidance System instrument) operating from 0.5 – 1.95 microns in wavelength provides both guidance information for stabilizing the spacecraft pointing as well as vital scientific information from spectroscopy in the near-infrared and photometry in the visible channels. The Ariel InfraRed Spectrometer (AIRS) instrument provides medium resolution spectroscopy from 1.95 – 7.8 microns wavelength coverage over two instrument channels. Supporting subsystems provide the necessary mechanical, thermal and electronics support to the cryogenic payload. This paper presents the overall picture of the payload for the Ariel mission. The payload tightly integrates the design and analysis of the various payload elements (including for example the integrated STOP analysis of the Telescope and Common Optics) in order to allow the exacting photometric stability requirements for the mission to be met. The Ariel payload has passed through the Preliminary Design Review (completed in Q2 2023) and is now developing and building prototype models of the Telescope, Instruments and Subsystems (details of which will be provided in other contributions to this conference). This paper will present the current status of the development work and outline the future plans to complete the build and verification of the integrated payload.

Proceedings Article | 23 August 2024 Presentation + Paper

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

Proceedings Volume 13092, 130921D (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3019926

KEYWORDS: Sensors, Equipment, Interfaces, Spectroscopy, Telescopes, Thermography, Optical benches, Control systems, Windows, Infrared spectroscopy

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Proceedings Article | 27 August 2022 Presentation + Paper

AIRS: ARIEL IR spectrometer status

Jérôme Martignac, Jérôme Amiaux, Michel Berthé, Christophe Cara, Cyrille Delisles, Achrène Direk, Luc Dumaye, Jean Fontignie, Alain Goestschy, Benoît Horeau, Norma Hurtado, Duc-Dat Huyn, Grégory Kaszubiak, Pierre-Olivier Lagage, Isabelle Le Mer, Michel Lortholary, Vincent Moreau, Salima Mouzali, Patrick Mulet, François Nico, Thibault Pichon, Lena Provost, Diana Renaud, Victor Schwartz, Michel Talvard, Thierry Tourrette, François Visticot, Axel Arhancet, Damien Bachet, Nicolas Berton, Mickael Lacroix, Hervé Le Provost, Olivier Tellier, Anne Philippon, Clémence De Jabrun, Jean-Pierre Dubois, François Langlet, Dylan Le Claire, Benoît Lecomte, Marc Ollivier, Stéphane Tosti, Vincent Lapeyrère, Marion Bonafous, Jérôme Parisot, Jean-Michel Reess, Didier Zegadanin, Jean-Philipe Beaulieu, Virginie Batista, Pierre Drossart, Salma Fahmy, Delphine Jollet, Ludovic Puig, Thierry Tirolien, Pascale Danto, Gilles Hervet, Oceane Maisonnave, Paul Eccleston, Georgia Bishop, Rachel Drumond, Andrew Caldwell, Martin Caldwell, Lucile Desjonqueres, Martin Whalley, Enzo Pascale, Gianluca Morgante, Mauro Focardi, Emanuele Pace, Anna Maria Di Giorgio

Proceedings Volume 12180, 1218012 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2628920

KEYWORDS: Sensors, Prisms, Spectroscopy, Telescopes, Interfaces, Control systems, Optical benches, Electronics, Infrared spectroscopy

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Proceedings Article | 20 November 2017 Open Access

Large aperture telescope technology: a design for an active lightweight multi-segmented fold-out space mirror

S. Thompson, A. Doel, M. Whalley, R. Edeson, I. Tosh, O. Poyntz-Wright, E. Atad-Ettedgui, D. Montgomery, J. Nawasra

Proceedings Volume 10565, 105651Y (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2309210

KEYWORDS: Mirrors, Actuators, Manufacturing, Aluminum, Space telescopes, Space mirrors, Astronomical imaging, Telescopes, Tolerancing, Surface roughness

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Proceedings Article | 5 September 2017 Presentation + Paper

The EarthCARE mission BBR instrument: ground testing of radiometric performance

Martin Caldwell, David Spilling, William Grainger, E. Theocharous, Martin Whalley, Nigel Wright, Anthony Ward, Edward Jones, Joseph Hampton, David Parker, John Delderfield, Alan Pearce, Tony Richards, Grant Munro, Oliver Poynz Wright, Matthew Hampson, David Forster

Proceedings Volume 10402, 1040204 (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2273148

KEYWORDS: Calibration, Radiometry, Solar radiation, Aerosols, LIDAR, Clouds, Radar, Imaging systems, Sensors, Optical filters

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In the EarthCARE mission the BBR (Broad Band Radiometer) has the role of measuring the net earth radiance (i.e. total reflected-solar and thermally-emitted radiances), from the same earth scene as viewed by the other instruments (aerosol lidar, cloud radar and spectral imager). It does this measurement at 10km scene size and in 3 view angles. It is an imaging radiometer in that it uses micro-bolometer linear-array detector (pushbroom orientation), to over-sample these required scenes, with the samples being binned on-ground to produce the 10km radiance data. For the measurements of total earth radiance, the BBR is based on the heritage of Earth Radiation Budget (ERB) instruments. The ground calibration methods of this type of sensor is technically very similar to other EO instruments that measure in the thermalIR, but with added challenges: (1) The thermal-IR measurement has to have a much wider spectral range than normal thermal-IR channels to cover the whole earth-emission spectrum i.e. ~4 to >50microns; (2) The 2nd channel (reflected solar radiance) must also have a broad response to cover almost the whole solar spectrum, i.e. ~0.3 to 4microns. And this solar channel must be measured on the same radiometric calibration as the thermal channel, which in practice is best done by using the same radiometer for both channels. The radiometer is designed to be very broad-band i.e. 0.3 to 50microns (i.e. more than two decades), to cover both ranges, and a switchable spectral filter (short-pass cutoff at 4μm) is used to separate the channels. The on-ground measurements which are required to link the calibration of these channels will be described. A calibration of absolute responsivity in each of the two bands is needed; in the thermal-IR channel this is by the normal method of using a calibrated blackbody test source, and in the solar channel it is by means of a narrow-band (laser) and a reference radiometer (from NPL). A calibration of relative spectral response is also needed, across this wide range, for the purpose of linking the two channels, and for converting the narrow-band solar channel measurement to broad-band.

Proceedings Article | 22 July 2010 Paper

Fibre positioning revisited: the use of an off-the-shelf assembly robot for OPTIMOS-EVE

Gavin Dalton, Martin Whalley, Oudayraj Mounissamy, Eric Sawyer, Ian A. Tosh, David Terrett, Ian Lewis

Proceedings Volume 7739, 77392B (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.857199

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Spectrographs, Astronomical imaging, Manufacturing, Space telescopes, Imaging systems, Spectroscopes, Near infrared spectroscopy, Visible radiation, Roads

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Proceedings Article | 15 July 2010 Paper

Project overview of OPTIMOS-EVE: the fibre-fed multi-object spectrograph for the E-ELT

Ramón Navarro, Fanny Chemla, Piercarlo Bonifacio, Hector Flores, Isabelle Guinouard, Jean-Michel Huet, Mathieu Puech, Frédéric Royer, Johannes Pragt, Gerben Wulterkens, Eric Sawyer, Martin Caldwell, Ian A. Tosh, Martin Whalley, Guy F. Woodhouse, Paolo Spanò, Paolo Di Marcantonio, Michael Andersen, Gavin Dalton, Lex Kaper, François Hammer

Proceedings Volume 7735, 77352L (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.857638

KEYWORDS: Spectrographs, Galactic astronomy, Spectral resolution, Telescopes, Stars, Near infrared, Astronomical imaging, Planets, Sensors, Spectroscopes

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Proceedings Article | 15 July 2010 Paper

Commissioning the VISTA IR camera

Gavin Dalton, William Sutherland, James Emerson, Guy F. Woodhouse, David Terrett, Martin Whalley

Proceedings Volume 7735, 77351J (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.857186

KEYWORDS: Cameras, Telescopes, Infrared cameras, Imaging systems, Monochromatic aberrations, Optical instrument design, Distortion, Mirrors, Image quality, Sensors

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Proceedings Article | 28 June 2006 Paper

The VISTA infrared camera

G. Dalton, M. Caldwell, A. Ward, M. Whalley, G. Woodhouse, R. Edeson, P. Clark, S. Beard, A. Gallie, S. Todd, J. M. D. Strachan, N. Bezawada, W. Sutherland, J. Emerson

Proceedings Volume 6269, 62690X (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.670018

KEYWORDS: Cameras, Telescopes, Sensors, Infrared cameras, Optical filters, Infrared telescopes, Mirrors, Staring arrays, Space telescopes, Infrared sensors

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Proceedings Article | 30 September 2004 Paper

The VISTA IR camera

Gavin Dalton, Martin Caldwell, Kim Ward, Martin Whalley, Kevin Burke, John Lucas, Tony Richards, Marc Ferlet, Ruben Edeson, Daniel Tye, Bryan Shaughnessy, Mel Strachan, Eli Atad-Ettedgui, Melanie Leclerc, Angus Gallie, Nagaraja Bezawada, Paul Clark, Nirmal Bissonauth, Peter Luke, Nigel Dipper, Paul Berry, Will Sutherland, Jim Emerson

Proceedings Volume 5492, (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.551378

KEYWORDS: Cameras, Telescopes, Infrared cameras, Optical filters, Sensors, Imaging systems, Staring arrays, Mirrors, Bandpass filters, Infrared telescopes

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Proceedings Article | 16 September 2004 Paper

The mechanical and thermal design and analysis of the VISTA infrared camera

Ruben Edeson, Bryan Shaughnessy, Martin Whalley, Kevin Burke, John Lucas

Proceedings Volume 5497, (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.551629

KEYWORDS: Cameras, Computer aided design, Sensors, Infrared cameras, Solid modeling, Aluminum, Interfaces, Mechanical engineering, Earthquakes, Molybdenum

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Proceedings Article | 16 September 2004 Paper

Aspects of concurrent design during the VISTA IR camera detailed design phase

Martin Caldwell, Martin Whalley, Guy Woodhouse, Ruben Edeson, Kevin Burke, John Lucas, Bryan Shaughnessy, Tony Richards, Kim Ward, Gavin Dalton, Melanie Leclerc, Angus Gallie, Paul Clark

Proceedings Volume 5497, (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.550907

KEYWORDS: Computer aided design, Solid modeling, Sensors, Infrared cameras, Cameras, Thermal modeling, Adaptive optics, Instrument modeling, Staring arrays, Data modeling

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