Design and performance of the Exo-planet Characterisation Observatory (EChO) integrated payload

B Swinyard ,Ian Bryson,Giovanna Tinetti,Paul Eccleston,Naidu Bezawada,Ranah Irshad,Enzo Pascale,Marc Ferlet,Jan-Rutger Schrader,Marcel Tessenyi ,M Linder ,E Pace ,R Ottensamer ,I A G Snellen ,L Puig ,A Selig ,A Adriani ,Neil E Bowles ,W D Taylor ,B Winter ,P Hartogh ,V Coudé Du Foresto ,Kevin Middleton ,M Crook ,T Lim ,G Morgante ,Tom Hunt ,P Drossart ,K G Isaak ,C Lovis ,Mirek Rataj ,T Bradshaw ,M Ollivier ,Gonzalo Ramos Zapata ,Jean-Michel Réess ,I Ribas ,I P Waldmann ,G Micela ,J P Beaulieu

doi:10.1117/12.2056433

Design and performance of the Exo-planet Characterisation Observatory (EChO) integrated payload

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https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2056433

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Publication Date: Aug 28, 2014

Affiliation: University College London, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK Astronomy Technology Centre, Royal Observatory, Cardiff University, University of Oxford, University of Florence, Institute for Space Astrophysics and Planetology, National Institute for Astrophysics

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The Exoplanet Characterisation Observatory (EChO) mission was one of the proposed candidates for the European Space Agency’s third medium mission within the Cosmic Vision Framework. EChO was designed to observe the spectra from transiting exoplanets in the 0.55-11 micron band with a goal of covering from 0.4 to 16 microns. The mission and its associated scientific instrument has now undergone a rigorous technical evaluation phase and we report here on the outcome of that study phase, update the design status and review the expected performance of the integrated payload and satellite.

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