Focal plane design for ESA's Eddington planet-finding mission

David H. Lumb; Fabio Favata

doi:10.1117/12.508579

19 November 2003 Focal plane design for ESA's Eddington planet-finding mission

David H. Lumb, Fabio Favata

Proceedings Volume 5170, Techniques and Instrumentation for Detection of Exoplanets; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.508579
Event: Optical Science and Technology, SPIE's 48th Annual Meeting, 2003, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The ESA Eddington mission is designed to perform the dual science tasks of asteroseismology and exo-planet finding. The ambitious science goals can be met by a single instrument that utilises high precision and long duration photometry, that in the planet-finding phase leads the ability to detect planetary transits from targets in the magnitude range 11 - 15. We describe the baseline design of the Eddington focal plane cameras, including the performance features of e2V CCD42-C0 devices that are the proto-type detectors. Important trade-offs and system constraints are noted and issues that affect the scientific output such as radiation damage and calibration aspects, and are briefly reviewed.

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David H. Lumb and Fabio Favata "Focal plane design for ESA's Eddington planet-finding mission", Proc. SPIE 5170, Techniques and Instrumentation for Detection of Exoplanets, (19 November 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.508579

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