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

Bruce Swinyard , Marcel Tessenyi , Giovanna Tinetti , Ingo Waldmann , Paul Eccleston , Marc Ferlet , Ranah Irshad , Tanya Lim , Kevin Middleton , Tom Bradshaw , Martin Crook , Tom Hunt , Berend Winter , Ian Bryson , Naidu Bezawada , William Taylor , Neil Bowles , Enzo Pascale , Gianluca Morgante , Emanuele Pace , Alberto Adriani , Jean-Michel Reess (1) , Pierre Drossart (1) , Vincent Coudé Du Foresto (1) , Marc Ollivier , Roland Ottensamer , Mirek Rataj , Gonzalo Ramos Zapata , Jan-Rutger Schrader , Avri Selig , Kate Isaak , Martin Linder , Ludovic Puig , Paul Hartogh , Christophe Lovis , Giusi Micela , Ignasi Ribas , Ignas Snellen , Jean-Phillippe Beaulieu (2)

1 LESIA (UMR_8109) - Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique
2 IAP - Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris

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.

Domains: Sciences of the Universe [physics]

Bruce Swinyard, Marcel Tessenyi, Giovanna Tinetti, Ingo Waldmann, Paul Eccleston, et al.. Design and performance of the Exo-planet Characterisation Observatory (EChO) integrated payload. Proceedings of the SPIE, 0000, à renseigner, Unknown Region. ⟨10.1117/12.2056433⟩. ⟨insu-03645332⟩