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1. Detecting molecules in Ariel low resolution transmission spectra

Author: Bocchieri, Andrea, Mugnai, Lorenzo V., Pascale, Enzo, Changeat, Quentin, Tinetti, Giovanna, Bocchieri, Andrea, Mugnai, Lorenzo V., Pascale, Enzo, Changeat, Quentin, and Tinetti, Giovanna
Abstract: The Ariel Space Mission aims to observe a diverse sample of exoplanet atmospheres across a wide wavelength range of 0.5 to 7.8 microns. The observations are organized into four Tiers, with Tier 1 being a reconnaissance survey. This Tier is designed to achieve a sufficient signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) at low spectral resolution in order to identify featureless spectra or detect key molecular species without necessarily constraining their abundances with high confidence. We introduce a P-statistic that uses the abundance posteriors from a spectral retrieval to infer the probability of a molecule's presence in a given planet's atmosphere in Tier 1. We find that this method predicts probabilities that correlate well with the input abundances, indicating considerable predictive power when retrieval models have comparable or higher complexity compared to the data. However, we also demonstrate that the P-statistic loses representativity when the retrieval model has lower complexity, expressed as the inclusion of fewer than the expected molecules. The reliability and predictive power of the P-statistic are assessed on a simulated population of exoplanets with H2-He dominated atmospheres, and forecasting biases are studied and found not to adversely affect the classification of the survey., Comment: 51 pages, 15 figures, accepted in Experimental Astronomy
Published: 2023
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2. A survey of exoplanet phase curves with Ariel

Author: Charnay, Benjamin, Mendonça, João M., Kreidberg, Laura, Cowan, Nicolas B., Taylor, Jake, Bell, Taylor J., Demangeon, Olivier, Edwards, Billy, Haswell, Carole A., Morello, Giuseppe, Mugnai, Lorenzo V., Pascale, Enzo, Tinetti, Giovanna, Tremblin, Pascal, Zellem, Robert T., Charnay, Benjamin, Mendonça, João M., Kreidberg, Laura, Cowan, Nicolas B., Taylor, Jake, Bell, Taylor J., Demangeon, Olivier, Edwards, Billy, Haswell, Carole A., Morello, Giuseppe, Mugnai, Lorenzo V., Pascale, Enzo, Tinetti, Giovanna, Tremblin, Pascal, and Zellem, Robert T.
Abstract: The ESA-Ariel mission will include a tier dedicated to exoplanet phase curves corresponding to ∼ 10 % of the science time. We present here the current observing strategy for studying exoplanet phase curves with Ariel. We define science questions, requirements and a list of potential targets. We also estimate the precision of phase curve reconstruction and atmospheric retrieval using simulated phase curves. Based on this work, we found that full-orbit phase variations for 35-40 exoplanets could be observed during the 3.5-yr mission. This statistical sample would provide key constraints on atmospheric dynamics, composition, thermal structure and clouds of warm exoplanets, complementary to the scientific yield from spectroscopic transits/eclipses measurements.
Published: 2022

3. Design and testing of a low-resolution NIR spectrograph for the EXoplanet Climate Infrared TElescope

Author: Bernard, Lee, Jensen, Logan, Gamaunt, Johnathan, Butler, Nat, Bocchieri, Andrea, Changeat, Quentin, D'Alessandro, Azzurra, Edwards, Billy, Gong, Qian, Hartley, John, Helson, Kyle, Kelly, Daniel P., Klangboonkrong, Kanchita, Kleyheeg, Annalies, Lewis, Nikole, Li, Steven, Line, Michael, Maher, Stephen F., McClelland, Ryan, Miko, Laddawan R., Mugnai, Lorenzo V., Nagler, Peter, Netterfield, C. Barth, Parmentier, Vivien, Pascale, Enzo, Patience, Jennifer, Rehm, Tim, Romualdez, Javier, Sarkar, Subhajit, Scowen, Paul, Tucker, Gregory S., Waczynski, Augustyn, Waldmann, Ingo, Bernard, Lee, Jensen, Logan, Gamaunt, Johnathan, Butler, Nat, Bocchieri, Andrea, Changeat, Quentin, D'Alessandro, Azzurra, Edwards, Billy, Gong, Qian, Hartley, John, Helson, Kyle, Kelly, Daniel P., Klangboonkrong, Kanchita, Kleyheeg, Annalies, Lewis, Nikole, Li, Steven, Line, Michael, Maher, Stephen F., McClelland, Ryan, Miko, Laddawan R., Mugnai, Lorenzo V., Nagler, Peter, Netterfield, C. Barth, Parmentier, Vivien, Pascale, Enzo, Patience, Jennifer, Rehm, Tim, Romualdez, Javier, Sarkar, Subhajit, Scowen, Paul, Tucker, Gregory S., Waczynski, Augustyn, and Waldmann, Ingo
Abstract: The EXoplanet Climate Infrared TElescope (EXCITE) experiment is a balloon-borne, purpose-designed mission to measure spectroscopic phase curves of short-period extrasolar giant planets (EGPs, or "hot Jupiters"). Here, we present EXCITE's principal science instrument: a high-throughput, single-object spectrograph operating in the 0.8-2.5 mu m and 2.5-4.0 mu m bands with R >= 50. Our compact design achieves diffraction-limited, on-axis performance with just three powered optics: two off-axis parabolic mirrors and a CaF2 prism. We discuss the optical and mechanical design, the expected optical performance of the spectrograph, and summarize the tolerances needed to achieve that performance. We also discuss plans for establishing alignment of the optics and verifying the optical performance.
Published: 2022

4. Design and testing of a low-resolution NIR spectrograph for the EXoplanet Climate Infrared TElescope

Author: Bernard, Lee, Jensen, Logan, Gamaunt, Johnathan, Butler, Nat, Bocchieri, Andrea, Changeat, Quentin, D'Alessandro, Azzurra, Edwards, Billy, Gong, Qian, Hartley, John, Helson, Kyle, Kelly, Daniel P., Klangboonkrong, Kanchita, Kleyheeg, Annalies, Lewis, Nikole, Li, Steven, Line, Michael, Maher, Stephen F., McClelland, Ryan, Miko, Laddawan R., Mugnai, Lorenzo V., Nagler, Peter, Netterfield, C. Barth, Parmentier, Vivien, Pascale, Enzo, Patience, Jennifer, Rehm, Tim, Romualdez, Javier, Sarkar, Subhajit, Scowen, Paul, Tucker, Gregory S., Waczynski, Augustyn, Waldmann, Ingo, Bernard, Lee, Jensen, Logan, Gamaunt, Johnathan, Butler, Nat, Bocchieri, Andrea, Changeat, Quentin, D'Alessandro, Azzurra, Edwards, Billy, Gong, Qian, Hartley, John, Helson, Kyle, Kelly, Daniel P., Klangboonkrong, Kanchita, Kleyheeg, Annalies, Lewis, Nikole, Li, Steven, Line, Michael, Maher, Stephen F., McClelland, Ryan, Miko, Laddawan R., Mugnai, Lorenzo V., Nagler, Peter, Netterfield, C. Barth, Parmentier, Vivien, Pascale, Enzo, Patience, Jennifer, Rehm, Tim, Romualdez, Javier, Sarkar, Subhajit, Scowen, Paul, Tucker, Gregory S., Waczynski, Augustyn, and Waldmann, Ingo
Abstract: The EXoplanet Climate Infrared TElescope (EXCITE) experiment is a balloon-borne, purpose-designed mission to measure spectroscopic phase curves of short-period extrasolar giant planets (EGPs, or "hot Jupiters"). Here, we present EXCITE's principal science instrument: a high-throughput, single-object spectrograph operating in the 0.8-2.5 mu m and 2.5-4.0 mu m bands with R >= 50. Our compact design achieves diffraction-limited, on-axis performance with just three powered optics: two off-axis parabolic mirrors and a CaF2 prism. We discuss the optical and mechanical design, the expected optical performance of the spectrograph, and summarize the tolerances needed to achieve that performance. We also discuss plans for establishing alignment of the optics and verifying the optical performance.
Published: 2022

5. The Ariel ground segment and instrument operations science data centre

Author: Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, UK Space Agency, Pearson, C., Malaguti, G., Sarkar, Subhajit, Papageorgiou, Andreas, Krijger, Matthijs, Pascale, Enzo, Beaulieu, J. P., Colomé, J., Diolaiti, Emiliano, Doublier, Vanessa, Eccleston, Paul, Micela, Giusi, Moneti, Andrea, Morales, Juan Carlos, Nakhjiri, Nariman, Polenta, G., Ribas, Ignasi, Tinetti, Giovanna, Kohley, Ralf, Pilbratt, Göran, Birkmann, Stephan, Alvés de Oliveira, Catarina, Rank-Lüftinger, Theresa, Puig, Ludovic, Salvignol, Jean-Christophe, Symonds, Kate, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, UK Space Agency, Pearson, C., Malaguti, G., Sarkar, Subhajit, Papageorgiou, Andreas, Krijger, Matthijs, Pascale, Enzo, Beaulieu, J. P., Colomé, J., Diolaiti, Emiliano, Doublier, Vanessa, Eccleston, Paul, Micela, Giusi, Moneti, Andrea, Morales, Juan Carlos, Nakhjiri, Nariman, Polenta, G., Ribas, Ignasi, Tinetti, Giovanna, Kohley, Ralf, Pilbratt, Göran, Birkmann, Stephan, Alvés de Oliveira, Catarina, Rank-Lüftinger, Theresa, Puig, Ludovic, Salvignol, Jean-Christophe, and Symonds, Kate
Abstract: The ground segment for the ESA M4 Ariel exoplanet space mission is introduced. The ground segment encompasses the framework necessary to support the development of the Ariel mission to launch, in-flight operations and calibration, data processing pipeline and data handling, including user support. The structure of the ground segment and assumed responsibilities between ESA and the Ariel mission consortium is explained, along with their interfaces. The operational phases for the mission are introduced, including the early commissioning/verification phases, the science operations and the calibration strategy. The smooth transition of the ground segment through the various pre/post launch mission phases to nominal operations will be paramount in guaranteeing the success, scientific return and impact of the Ariel mission. The expected science data products are defined and a representative data processing pipeline is presented.
Published: 2022

6. Alfnoor: assessing the information content of Ariel's low resolution spectra with planetary population studies

Author: Mugnai, Lorenzo V., Al-Refaie, Ahmed, Bocchieri, Andrea, Changeat, Quentin, Pascale, Enzo, Tinetti, Giovanna, Mugnai, Lorenzo V., Al-Refaie, Ahmed, Bocchieri, Andrea, Changeat, Quentin, Pascale, Enzo, and Tinetti, Giovanna
Abstract: The ARIEL Space Telescope will provide a large and diverse sample of exoplanet spectra, performing spectroscopic observations of about 1000 exoplanets in the wavelength range $0.5 \to 7.8 \; \mu m$. In this paper, we investigate the information content of ARIEL's Reconnaissance Survey low resolution transmission spectra. Among the goals of the ARIEL Reconnaissance Survey is also to identify planets without molecular features in their atmosphere. In this work, (1) we present a strategy that will allow to select candidate planets to be reobserved in a ARIEL's higher resolution Tier; (2) we propose a metric to preliminary classify exoplanets by their atmospheric composition without performing an atmospheric retrieval; (3) we introduce the possibility to find other methods to better exploit the data scientific content., Comment: 31 pages, 14 figures, submitted to ApJ
Published: 2021
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7. Alfnoor: assessing the information content of Ariel's low resolution spectra with planetary population studies

Author: Mugnai, Lorenzo V., Al-Refaie, Ahmed, Bocchieri, Andrea, Changeat, Quentin, Pascale, Enzo, Tinetti, Giovanna, Mugnai, Lorenzo V., Al-Refaie, Ahmed, Bocchieri, Andrea, Changeat, Quentin, Pascale, Enzo, and Tinetti, Giovanna
Abstract: The ARIEL Space Telescope will provide a large and diverse sample of exoplanet spectra, performing spectroscopic observations of about 1000 exoplanets in the wavelength range $0.5 \to 7.8 \; \mu m$. In this paper, we investigate the information content of ARIEL's Reconnaissance Survey low resolution transmission spectra. Among the goals of the ARIEL Reconnaissance Survey is also to identify planets without molecular features in their atmosphere. In this work, (1) we present a strategy that will allow to select candidate planets to be reobserved in a ARIEL's higher resolution Tier; (2) we propose a metric to preliminary classify exoplanets by their atmospheric composition without performing an atmospheric retrieval; (3) we introduce the possibility to find other methods to better exploit the data scientific content., Comment: 31 pages, 14 figures, submitted to ApJ
Published: 2021
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8. Ariel: Enabling planetary science across light-years

Author: Tinetti, Giovanna, Eccleston, Paul, Haswell, Carole, Lagage, Pierre-Olivier, Leconte, Jérémy, Lüftinger, Theresa, Micela, Giusi, Min, Michel, Pilbratt, Göran, Puig, Ludovic, Swain, Mark, Testi, Leonardo, Turrini, Diego, Vandenbussche, Bart, Osorio, Maria Rosa Zapatero, Aret, Anna, Beaulieu, Jean-Philippe, Buchhave, Lars, Ferus, Martin, Griffin, Matt, Guedel, Manuel, Hartogh, Paul, Machado, Pedro, Malaguti, Giuseppe, Pallé, Enric, Rataj, Mirek, Ray, Tom, Ribas, Ignasi, Szabó, Robert, Tan, Jonathan, Werner, Stephanie, Ratti, Francesco, Scharmberg, Carsten, Salvignol, Jean-Christophe, Boudin, Nathalie, Halain, Jean-Philippe, Haag, Martin, Crouzet, Pierre-Elie, Kohley, Ralf, Symonds, Kate, Renk, Florian, Caldwell, Andrew, Abreu, Manuel, Alonso, Gustavo, Amiaux, Jerome, Berthé, Michel, Bishop, Georgia, Bowles, Neil, Carmona, Manuel, Coffey, Deirdre, Colomé, Josep, Crook, Martin, Désjonqueres, Lucile, Díaz, José J., Drummond, Rachel, Focardi, Mauro, Gómez, Jose M., Holmes, Warren, Krijger, Matthijs, Kovacs, Zsolt, Hunt, Tom, Machado, Richardo, Morgante, Gianluca, Ollivier, Marc, Ottensamer, Roland, Pace, Emanuele, Pagano, Teresa, Pascale, Enzo, Pearson, Chris, Pedersen, Søren Møller, Pniel, Moshe, Roose, Stéphane, Savini, Giorgio, Stamper, Richard, Szirovicza, Peter, Szoke, Janos, Tosh, Ian, Vilardell, Francesc, Barstow, Joanna, Borsato, Luca, Casewell, Sarah, Changeat, Quentin, Charnay, Benjamin, Civiš, Svatopluk, Foresto, Vincent Coudé du, Coustenis, Athena, Cowan, Nicolas, Danielski, Camilla, Demangeon, Olivier, Drossart, Pierre, Edwards, Billy N., Gilli, Gabriella, Encrenaz, Therese, Kiss, Csaba, Kokori, Anastasia, Ikoma, Masahiro, Morales, Juan Carlos, Mendonça, João, Moneti, Andrea, Mugnai, Lorenzo, Muñoz, Antonio García, Helled, Ravit, Kama, Mihkel, Miguel, Yamila, Nikolaou, Nikos, Pagano, Isabella, Panic, Olja, Rengel, Miriam, Rickman, Hans, Rocchetto, Marco, Sarkar, Subhajit, Selsis, Franck, Tennyson, Jonathan, Tsiaras, Angelos, Venot, Olivia, Vida, Krisztián, Waldmann, Ingo P., Yurchenko, Sergey, Szabó, Gyula, Zellem, Rob, Al-Refaie, Ahmed, Alvarez, Javier Perez, Anisman, Lara, Arhancet, Axel, Ateca, Jaume, Baeyens, Robin, Barnes, John R., Bell, Taylor, Benatti, Serena, Biazzo, Katia, Błęcka, Maria, Bonomo, Aldo Stefano, Bosch, José, Bossini, Diego, Bourgalais, Jeremy, Brienza, Daniele, Brucalassi, Anna, Bruno, Giovanni, Caines, Hamish, Calcutt, Simon, Campante, Tiago, Canestrari, Rodolfo, Cann, Nick, Casali, Giada, Casas, Albert, Cassone, Giuseppe, Cara, Christophe, Carone, Ludmila, Carrasco, Nathalie, Chioetto, Paolo, Cortecchia, Fausto, Czupalla, Markus, Chubb, Katy L., Ciaravella, Angela, Claret, Antonio, Claudi, Riccardo, Codella, Claudio, Comas, Maya Garcia, Cracchiolo, Gianluca, Cubillos, Patricio, Da Peppo, Vania, Decin, Leen, Dejabrun, Clemence, Delgado-Mena, Elisa, Di Giorgio, Anna, Diolaiti, Emiliano, Dorn, Caroline, Doublier, Vanessa, Doumayrou, Eric, Dransfield, Georgina, Dumaye, Luc, Dunford, Emma, Escobar, Antonio Jimenez, Van Eylen, Vincent, Farina, Maria, Fedele, Davide, Fernández, Alejandro, Fleury, Benjamin, Fonte, Sergio, Fontignie, Jean, Fossati, Luca, Funke, Bernd, Galy, Camille, Garai, Zoltán, García, Andrés, García-Rigo, Alberto, Garufi, Antonio, Sacco, Giuseppe Germano, Giacobbe, Paolo, Gómez, Alejandro, Gonzalez, Arturo, Gonzalez-Galindo, Francisco, Grassi, Davide, Griffith, Caitlin, Guarcello, Mario Giuseppe, Goujon, Audrey, Gressier, Amélie, Grzegorczyk, Aleksandra, Guillot, Tristan, Guilluy, Gloria, Hargrave, Peter, Hellin, Marie-Laure, Herrero, Enrique, Hills, Matt, Horeau, Benoit, Ito, Yuichi, Jessen, Niels Christian, Kabath, Petr, Kálmán, Szilárd, Kawashima, Yui, Kimura, Tadahiro, Knížek, Antonín, Kreidberg, Laura, Kruid, Ronald, Kruijssen, Diederik J. M., Kubelík, Petr, Lara, Luisa, Lebonnois, Sebastien, Lee, David, Lefevre, Maxence, Lichtenberg, Tim, Locci, Daniele, Lombini, Matteo, Lopez, Alejandro Sanchez, Lorenzani, Andrea, MacDonald, Ryan, Magrini, Laura, Maldonado, Jesus, Marcq, Emmanuel, Migliorini, Alessandra, Modirrousta-Galian, Darius, Molaverdikhani, Karan, Molinari, Sergio, Mollière, Paul, Moreau, Vincent, Morello, Giuseppe, Morinaud, Gilles, Morvan, Mario, Moses, Julianne I., Mouzali, Salima, Nakhjiri, Nariman, Naponiello, Luca, Narita, Norio, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Nikolaou, Athanasia, Noce, Vladimiro, Oliva, Fabrizio, Palladino, Pietro, Papageorgiou, Andreas, Parmentier, Vivien, Peres, Giovanni, Pérez, Javier, Perez-Hoyos, Santiago, Perger, Manuel, Pestellini, Cesare Cecchi, Petralia, Antonino, Philippon, Anne, Piccialli, Arianna, Pignatari, Marco, Piotto, Giampaolo, Podio, Linda, Polenta, Gianluca, Preti, Giampaolo, Pribulla, Theodor, Puertas, Manuel Lopez, Rainer, Monica, Reess, Jean-Michel, Rimmer, Paul, Robert, Séverine, Rosich, Albert, Rossi, Loic, Rust, Duncan, Saleh, Ayman, Sanna, Nicoletta, Schisano, Eugenio, Schreiber, Laura, Schwartz, Victor, Scippa, Antonio, Seli, Bálint, Shibata, Sho, Simpson, Caroline, Shorttle, Oliver, Skaf, N., Skup, Konrad, Sobiecki, Mateusz, Sousa, Sergio, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Šponer, Judit, Steiger, Lukas, Tanga, Paolo, Tackley, Paul, Taylor, Jake, Tecza, Matthias, Terenzi, Luca, Tremblin, Pascal, Tozzi, Andrea, Triaud, Amaury, Trompet, Loïc, Tsai, Shang-Min, Tsantaki, Maria, Valencia, Diana, Vandaele, Ann Carine, Van der Swaelmen, Mathieu, Vardan, Adibekyan, Vasisht, Gautam, Vazan, Allona, Del Vecchio, Ciro, Waltham, Dave, Wawer, Piotr, Widemann, Thomas, Wolkenberg, Paulina, Yip, Gordon Hou, Yung, Yuk, Zilinskas, Mantas, Zingales, Tiziano, Zuppella, Paola, Tinetti, Giovanna, Eccleston, Paul, Haswell, Carole, Lagage, Pierre-Olivier, Leconte, Jérémy, Lüftinger, Theresa, Micela, Giusi, Min, Michel, Pilbratt, Göran, Puig, Ludovic, Swain, Mark, Testi, Leonardo, Turrini, Diego, Vandenbussche, Bart, Osorio, Maria Rosa Zapatero, Aret, Anna, Beaulieu, Jean-Philippe, Buchhave, Lars, Ferus, Martin, Griffin, Matt, Guedel, Manuel, Hartogh, Paul, Machado, Pedro, Malaguti, Giuseppe, Pallé, Enric, Rataj, Mirek, Ray, Tom, Ribas, Ignasi, Szabó, Robert, Tan, Jonathan, Werner, Stephanie, Ratti, Francesco, Scharmberg, Carsten, Salvignol, Jean-Christophe, Boudin, Nathalie, Halain, Jean-Philippe, Haag, Martin, Crouzet, Pierre-Elie, Kohley, Ralf, Symonds, Kate, Renk, Florian, Caldwell, Andrew, Abreu, Manuel, Alonso, Gustavo, Amiaux, Jerome, Berthé, Michel, Bishop, Georgia, Bowles, Neil, Carmona, Manuel, Coffey, Deirdre, Colomé, Josep, Crook, Martin, Désjonqueres, Lucile, Díaz, José J., Drummond, Rachel, Focardi, Mauro, Gómez, Jose M., Holmes, Warren, Krijger, Matthijs, Kovacs, Zsolt, Hunt, Tom, Machado, Richardo, Morgante, Gianluca, Ollivier, Marc, Ottensamer, Roland, Pace, Emanuele, Pagano, Teresa, Pascale, Enzo, Pearson, Chris, Pedersen, Søren Møller, Pniel, Moshe, Roose, Stéphane, Savini, Giorgio, Stamper, Richard, Szirovicza, Peter, Szoke, Janos, Tosh, Ian, Vilardell, Francesc, Barstow, Joanna, Borsato, Luca, Casewell, Sarah, Changeat, Quentin, Charnay, Benjamin, Civiš, Svatopluk, Foresto, Vincent Coudé du, Coustenis, Athena, Cowan, Nicolas, Danielski, Camilla, Demangeon, Olivier, Drossart, Pierre, Edwards, Billy N., Gilli, Gabriella, Encrenaz, Therese, Kiss, Csaba, Kokori, Anastasia, Ikoma, Masahiro, Morales, Juan Carlos, Mendonça, João, Moneti, Andrea, Mugnai, Lorenzo, Muñoz, Antonio García, Helled, Ravit, Kama, Mihkel, Miguel, Yamila, Nikolaou, Nikos, Pagano, Isabella, Panic, Olja, Rengel, Miriam, Rickman, Hans, Rocchetto, Marco, Sarkar, Subhajit, Selsis, Franck, Tennyson, Jonathan, Tsiaras, Angelos, Venot, Olivia, Vida, Krisztián, Waldmann, Ingo P., Yurchenko, Sergey, Szabó, Gyula, Zellem, Rob, Al-Refaie, Ahmed, Alvarez, Javier Perez, Anisman, Lara, Arhancet, Axel, Ateca, Jaume, Baeyens, Robin, Barnes, John R., Bell, Taylor, Benatti, Serena, Biazzo, Katia, Błęcka, Maria, Bonomo, Aldo Stefano, Bosch, José, Bossini, Diego, Bourgalais, Jeremy, Brienza, Daniele, Brucalassi, Anna, Bruno, Giovanni, Caines, Hamish, Calcutt, Simon, Campante, Tiago, Canestrari, Rodolfo, Cann, Nick, Casali, Giada, Casas, Albert, Cassone, Giuseppe, Cara, Christophe, Carone, Ludmila, Carrasco, Nathalie, Chioetto, Paolo, Cortecchia, Fausto, Czupalla, Markus, Chubb, Katy L., Ciaravella, Angela, Claret, Antonio, Claudi, Riccardo, Codella, Claudio, Comas, Maya Garcia, Cracchiolo, Gianluca, Cubillos, Patricio, Da Peppo, Vania, Decin, Leen, Dejabrun, Clemence, Delgado-Mena, Elisa, Di Giorgio, Anna, Diolaiti, Emiliano, Dorn, Caroline, Doublier, Vanessa, Doumayrou, Eric, Dransfield, Georgina, Dumaye, Luc, Dunford, Emma, Escobar, Antonio Jimenez, Van Eylen, Vincent, Farina, Maria, Fedele, Davide, Fernández, Alejandro, Fleury, Benjamin, Fonte, Sergio, Fontignie, Jean, Fossati, Luca, Funke, Bernd, Galy, Camille, Garai, Zoltán, García, Andrés, García-Rigo, Alberto, Garufi, Antonio, Sacco, Giuseppe Germano, Giacobbe, Paolo, Gómez, Alejandro, Gonzalez, Arturo, Gonzalez-Galindo, Francisco, Grassi, Davide, Griffith, Caitlin, Guarcello, Mario Giuseppe, Goujon, Audrey, Gressier, Amélie, Grzegorczyk, Aleksandra, Guillot, Tristan, Guilluy, Gloria, Hargrave, Peter, Hellin, Marie-Laure, Herrero, Enrique, Hills, Matt, Horeau, Benoit, Ito, Yuichi, Jessen, Niels Christian, Kabath, Petr, Kálmán, Szilárd, Kawashima, Yui, Kimura, Tadahiro, Knížek, Antonín, Kreidberg, Laura, Kruid, Ronald, Kruijssen, Diederik J. M., Kubelík, Petr, Lara, Luisa, Lebonnois, Sebastien, Lee, David, Lefevre, Maxence, Lichtenberg, Tim, Locci, Daniele, Lombini, Matteo, Lopez, Alejandro Sanchez, Lorenzani, Andrea, MacDonald, Ryan, Magrini, Laura, Maldonado, Jesus, Marcq, Emmanuel, Migliorini, Alessandra, Modirrousta-Galian, Darius, Molaverdikhani, Karan, Molinari, Sergio, Mollière, Paul, Moreau, Vincent, Morello, Giuseppe, Morinaud, Gilles, Morvan, Mario, Moses, Julianne I., Mouzali, Salima, Nakhjiri, Nariman, Naponiello, Luca, Narita, Norio, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Nikolaou, Athanasia, Noce, Vladimiro, Oliva, Fabrizio, Palladino, Pietro, Papageorgiou, Andreas, Parmentier, Vivien, Peres, Giovanni, Pérez, Javier, Perez-Hoyos, Santiago, Perger, Manuel, Pestellini, Cesare Cecchi, Petralia, Antonino, Philippon, Anne, Piccialli, Arianna, Pignatari, Marco, Piotto, Giampaolo, Podio, Linda, Polenta, Gianluca, Preti, Giampaolo, Pribulla, Theodor, Puertas, Manuel Lopez, Rainer, Monica, Reess, Jean-Michel, Rimmer, Paul, Robert, Séverine, Rosich, Albert, Rossi, Loic, Rust, Duncan, Saleh, Ayman, Sanna, Nicoletta, Schisano, Eugenio, Schreiber, Laura, Schwartz, Victor, Scippa, Antonio, Seli, Bálint, Shibata, Sho, Simpson, Caroline, Shorttle, Oliver, Skaf, N., Skup, Konrad, Sobiecki, Mateusz, Sousa, Sergio, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Šponer, Judit, Steiger, Lukas, Tanga, Paolo, Tackley, Paul, Taylor, Jake, Tecza, Matthias, Terenzi, Luca, Tremblin, Pascal, Tozzi, Andrea, Triaud, Amaury, Trompet, Loïc, Tsai, Shang-Min, Tsantaki, Maria, Valencia, Diana, Vandaele, Ann Carine, Van der Swaelmen, Mathieu, Vardan, Adibekyan, Vasisht, Gautam, Vazan, Allona, Del Vecchio, Ciro, Waltham, Dave, Wawer, Piotr, Widemann, Thomas, Wolkenberg, Paulina, Yip, Gordon Hou, Yung, Yuk, Zilinskas, Mantas, Zingales, Tiziano, and Zuppella, Paola
Abstract: Ariel, the Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey, was adopted as the fourth medium-class mission in ESA's Cosmic Vision programme to be launched in 2029. During its 4-year mission, Ariel will study what exoplanets are made of, how they formed and how they evolve, by surveying a diverse sample of about 1000 extrasolar planets, simultaneously in visible and infrared wavelengths. It is the first mission dedicated to measuring the chemical composition and thermal structures of hundreds of transiting exoplanets, enabling planetary science far beyond the boundaries of the Solar System. The payload consists of an off-axis Cassegrain telescope (primary mirror 1100 mm x 730 mm ellipse) and two separate instruments (FGS and AIRS) covering simultaneously 0.5-7.8 micron spectral range. The satellite is best placed into an L2 orbit to maximise the thermal stability and the field of regard. The payload module is passively cooled via a series of V-Groove radiators; the detectors for the AIRS are the only items that require active cooling via an active Ne JT cooler. The Ariel payload is developed by a consortium of more than 50 institutes from 16 ESA countries, which include the UK, France, Italy, Belgium, Poland, Spain, Austria, Denmark, Ireland, Portugal, Czech Republic, Hungary, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Estonia, and a NASA contribution., Comment: Ariel Definition Study Report, 147 pages. Reviewed by ESA Science Advisory Structure in November 2020. Original document available at: https://www.cosmos.esa.int/documents/1783156/3267291/Ariel_RedBook_Nov2020.pdf
Published: 2021

9. A survey of exoplanet phase curves with Ariel

Author: Charnay, Benjamin, Mendonça, Joao M., Kreidberg, Laura, Cowan, Nicolas B., Taylor, Jake, Bell, Taylor J., Demangeon, Olivier, Edwards, Billy, Haswell, Carole A., Morello, Giuseppe, Mugnai, Lorenzo V., Pascale, Enzo, Tinetti, Giovanna, Tremblin, Pascal, Zellem, Robert T., Charnay, Benjamin, Mendonça, Joao M., Kreidberg, Laura, Cowan, Nicolas B., Taylor, Jake, Bell, Taylor J., Demangeon, Olivier, Edwards, Billy, Haswell, Carole A., Morello, Giuseppe, Mugnai, Lorenzo V., Pascale, Enzo, Tinetti, Giovanna, Tremblin, Pascal, and Zellem, Robert T.
Abstract: The ESA-Ariel mission will include a tier dedicated to exoplanet phase curves corresponding to ~10% of the science time. We present here the current observing strategy for studying exoplanet phase curves with Ariel. We define science questions, requirements and a list of potential targets. We also estimate the precision of phase curve reconstruction and atmospheric retrieval using simulated phase curves. Based on this work, we found that full-orbit phase variations for 35-40 exoplanets could be observed during the 3.5-yr mission. This statistical sample would provide key constraints on atmospheric dynamics, composition, thermal structure and clouds of warm exoplanets, complementary to the scientific yield from spectroscopic transits/eclipses measurements., Comment: 27 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in Experimental Astronomy, Ariel Special Issue
Published: 2021
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10. High-precision photometry with Ariel

Author: Hungarian Academy of Sciences, National Research, Development and Innovation Office (Hungary), Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España), European Commission, Szabó, Gyula M., Kálmán, Szilárd, Pribulla, Theodor, Claret dos Santos, Antonio, Mugnai, Lorenzo V., Pascale, Enzo, Waltham, Dave, Borsato, Luca, Garai, Zoltán, Szabó, Róbert, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, National Research, Development and Innovation Office (Hungary), Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España), European Commission, Szabó, Gyula M., Kálmán, Szilárd, Pribulla, Theodor, Claret dos Santos, Antonio, Mugnai, Lorenzo V., Pascale, Enzo, Waltham, Dave, Borsato, Luca, Garai, Zoltán, and Szabó, Róbert
Abstract: In this paper we describe the photometry instruments of Ariel, consisting of the VISPhot, FGS1 and FGS2 photometers in the visual and mid-IR wavelength. These photometers have their own cadence, which can be independent from each other and the cadence of the spectral instruments. Ariel will be capable to do high cadence and high precision photometry in independent bands. There is also a possibility for synthetic Jsynth, Hsynth, and wide-band thermal infrared photometry from spectroscopic data. Although the cadence of the synthetic bands will be identical to that of the spectrographs, the precision of synthetic photometry in the suggested synthetic bands will be at least as precise as the optical data. We present the accuracy of these instruments. We also review selected fields of new science which will be opened up by the possibility of high cadence multiband space photometry, including stellar rotation, spin-orbit misalignment, orbital precession, planetary rotation and oblateness, tidal distortions, rings, and moons. © 2021, The Author(s).
Published: 2021

11. Alfnoor: A Retrieval Simulation of the Ariel Target List

Author: Changeat, Quentin, Al-Refaie, Ahmed, Mugnai, Lorenzo V., Edwards, Billy, Waldmann, Ingo P., Pascale, Enzo, Tinetti, Giovanna, Changeat, Quentin, Al-Refaie, Ahmed, Mugnai, Lorenzo V., Edwards, Billy, Waldmann, Ingo P., Pascale, Enzo, and Tinetti, Giovanna
Abstract: In this work, we present Alfnoor, a dedicated tool optimised for population studies of exoplanet atmospheres. Alfnoor combines the latest version of the retrieval algorithm TauREx 3, with the instrument noise simulator ArielRad and enables the simultaneous retrieval analysis of a large sample of exo-atmospheres. We applied this tool to the Ariel list of planetary candidates and focus on hydrogen dominated, cloudy atmospheres observed in transit with the Tier-2 mode (medium Ariel resolution). As a first experiment, we randomised the abundances - ranging from 10$^{-7}$ to 10$^{-2}$ - of the trace gases, which include H$_2$O, CH$_4$, CO, CO$_2$ and NH$_3$. This exercise allowed to estimate the detection limits for Ariel Tier-2 and Tier-3 modes when clouds are present. In a second experiment, we imposed an arbitrary trend between a chemical species and the effective temperature of the planet. A last experiment was run requiring molecular abundances being dictated by equilibrium chemistry at a certain temperature. Our results demonstrate the ability of Ariel Tier-2 and Tier-3 surveys to reveal trends between the chemistry and associated planetary parameters. Future work will focus on eclipse data, on atmospheres heavier than hydrogen and will be applied also to other observatories., Comment: 33 pages, 24 figures, Accepted in AJ
Published: 2020
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12. ExoSim: the Exoplanet Observation Simulator

Author: Sarkar, Subhajit, Pascale, Enzo, Papageorgiou, Andreas, Johnson, Luke J., Waldmann, Ingo, Sarkar, Subhajit, Pascale, Enzo, Papageorgiou, Andreas, Johnson, Luke J., and Waldmann, Ingo
Abstract: A new generation of exoplanet research beckons and with it the need for simulation tools that accurately predict signal and noise in transit spectroscopy observations. We developed ExoSim: an end-to-end simulator that models noise and systematics in a dynamical simulation. ExoSim improves on previous simulators in the complexity of its simulation, versatility of use and its ability to be generically applied to different instruments. It performs a dynamical simulation that can capture temporal effects, such as correlated noise and systematics on the light curve. It has also been extensively validated, including against real results from the Hubble WFC3 instrument. We find ExoSim is accurate to within 5% in most comparisons. ExoSim can interact with other models which simulate specific time-dependent processes. A dedicated star spot simulator allows ExoSim to produce simulated observations that include spot and facula contamination. ExoSim has been used extensively in the Phase A and B design studies of the ARIEL mission, and has many potential applications in the field of transit spectroscopy., Comment: 23 pages, 14 figures
Published: 2020
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13. ArielRad: the Ariel Radiometric Model

Author: Mugnai, Lorenzo V., Pascale, Enzo, Edwards, Billy, Papageorgiou, Andreas, Sarkar, Subhajit, Mugnai, Lorenzo V., Pascale, Enzo, Edwards, Billy, Papageorgiou, Andreas, and Sarkar, Subhajit
Abstract: ArielRad, the Ariel radiometric model, is a simulator developed to address the challenges in optimising the space mission science payload and to demonstrate its compliance with the performance requirements. Ariel, the Atmospheric Remote-Sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey, has been selected by ESA as the M4 mission in the Cosmic Vision programme and, during its 4 years primary operation, will provide the first unbiased spectroscopic survey of a large and diverse sample of transiting exoplanet atmospheres. To allow for an accurate study of the mission, ArielRad uses a physically motivated noise model to estimate contributions arising from stationary processes, and includes margins for correlated and time-dependent noise sources. We show that the measurement uncertainties are dominated by the photon statistic,and that an observing programme with about 1000 exoplanetary targets can be completed during the primary mission lifetime., Comment: 28 pages, 6 figures. Accepted in Exp.Astron
Published: 2020
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14. Alfnoor: A Retrieval Simulation of the Ariel Target List

Author: Changeat, Quentin, Al-Refaie, Ahmed, Mugnai, Lorenzo V., Edwards, Billy, Waldmann, Ingo P., Pascale, Enzo, Tinetti, Giovanna, Changeat, Quentin, Al-Refaie, Ahmed, Mugnai, Lorenzo V., Edwards, Billy, Waldmann, Ingo P., Pascale, Enzo, and Tinetti, Giovanna
Abstract: In this work, we present Alfnoor, a dedicated tool optimised for population studies of exoplanet atmospheres. Alfnoor combines the latest version of the retrieval algorithm TauREx 3, with the instrument noise simulator ArielRad and enables the simultaneous retrieval analysis of a large sample of exo-atmospheres. We applied this tool to the Ariel list of planetary candidates and focus on hydrogen dominated, cloudy atmospheres observed in transit with the Tier-2 mode (medium Ariel resolution). As a first experiment, we randomised the abundances - ranging from 10$^{-7}$ to 10$^{-2}$ - of the trace gases, which include H$_2$O, CH$_4$, CO, CO$_2$ and NH$_3$. This exercise allowed to estimate the detection limits for Ariel Tier-2 and Tier-3 modes when clouds are present. In a second experiment, we imposed an arbitrary trend between a chemical species and the effective temperature of the planet. A last experiment was run requiring molecular abundances being dictated by equilibrium chemistry at a certain temperature. Our results demonstrate the ability of Ariel Tier-2 and Tier-3 surveys to reveal trends between the chemistry and associated planetary parameters. Future work will focus on eclipse data, on atmospheres heavier than hydrogen and will be applied also to other observatories., Comment: 33 pages, 24 figures, Accepted in AJ
Published: 2020
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15. ExoSim: the Exoplanet Observation Simulator

Author: Sarkar, Subhajit, Pascale, Enzo, Papageorgiou, Andreas, Johnson, Luke J., Waldmann, Ingo, Sarkar, Subhajit, Pascale, Enzo, Papageorgiou, Andreas, Johnson, Luke J., and Waldmann, Ingo
Abstract: A new generation of exoplanet research beckons and with it the need for simulation tools that accurately predict signal and noise in transit spectroscopy observations. We developed ExoSim: an end-to-end simulator that models noise and systematics in a dynamical simulation. ExoSim improves on previous simulators in the complexity of its simulation, versatility of use and its ability to be generically applied to different instruments. It performs a dynamical simulation that can capture temporal effects, such as correlated noise and systematics on the light curve. It has also been extensively validated, including against real results from the Hubble WFC3 instrument. We find ExoSim is accurate to within 5% in most comparisons. ExoSim can interact with other models which simulate specific time-dependent processes. A dedicated star spot simulator allows ExoSim to produce simulated observations that include spot and facula contamination. ExoSim has been used extensively in the Phase A and B design studies of the ARIEL mission, and has many potential applications in the field of transit spectroscopy., Comment: 23 pages, 14 figures
Published: 2020
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16. Ariel: Enabling planetary science across light-years

Author: Tinetti, Giovanna, Eccleston, Paul, Haswell, Carole, Lagage, Pierre-Olivier, Leconte, Jérémy, Lüftinger, Theresa, Micela, Giusi, Min, Michel, Pilbratt, Göran, Puig, Ludovic, Swain, Mark, Testi, Leonardo, Turrini, Diego, Vandenbussche, Bart, Osorio, Maria Rosa Zapatero, Aret, Anna, Beaulieu, Jean-Philippe, Buchhave, Lars, Ferus, Martin, Griffin, Matt, Guedel, Manuel, Hartogh, Paul, Machado, Pedro, Malaguti, Giuseppe, Pallé, Enric, Rataj, Mirek, Ray, Tom, Ribas, Ignasi, Szabó, Robert, Tan, Jonathan, Werner, Stephanie, Ratti, Francesco, Scharmberg, Carsten, Salvignol, Jean-Christophe, Boudin, Nathalie, Halain, Jean-Philippe, Haag, Martin, Crouzet, Pierre-Elie, Kohley, Ralf, Symonds, Kate, Renk, Florian, Caldwell, Andrew, Abreu, Manuel, Alonso, Gustavo, Amiaux, Jerome, Berthé, Michel, Bishop, Georgia, Bowles, Neil, Carmona, Manuel, Coffey, Deirdre, Colomé, Josep, Crook, Martin, Désjonqueres, Lucile, Díaz, José J., Drummond, Rachel, Focardi, Mauro, Gómez, Jose M., Holmes, Warren, Krijger, Matthijs, Kovacs, Zsolt, Hunt, Tom, Machado, Richardo, Morgante, Gianluca, Ollivier, Marc, Ottensamer, Roland, Pace, Emanuele, Pagano, Teresa, Pascale, Enzo, Pearson, Chris, Pedersen, Søren Møller, Pniel, Moshe, Roose, Stéphane, Savini, Giorgio, Stamper, Richard, Szirovicza, Peter, Szoke, Janos, Tosh, Ian, Vilardell, Francesc, Barstow, Joanna, Borsato, Luca, Casewell, Sarah, Changeat, Quentin, Charnay, Benjamin, Civiš, Svatopluk, Foresto, Vincent Coudé du, Coustenis, Athena, Cowan, Nicolas, Danielski, Camilla, Demangeon, Olivier, Drossart, Pierre, Edwards, Billy N., Gilli, Gabriella, Encrenaz, Therese, Kiss, Csaba, Kokori, Anastasia, Ikoma, Masahiro, Morales, Juan Carlos, Mendonça, João, Moneti, Andrea, Mugnai, Lorenzo, Muñoz, Antonio García, Helled, Ravit, Kama, Mihkel, Miguel, Yamila, Nikolaou, Nikos, Pagano, Isabella, Panic, Olja, Rengel, Miriam, Rickman, Hans, Rocchetto, Marco, Sarkar, Subhajit, Selsis, Franck, Tennyson, Jonathan, Tsiaras, Angelos, Venot, Olivia, Vida, Krisztián, Waldmann, Ingo P., Yurchenko, Sergey, Szabó, Gyula, Zellem, Rob, Al-Refaie, Ahmed, Alvarez, Javier Perez, Anisman, Lara, Arhancet, Axel, Ateca, Jaume, Baeyens, Robin, Barnes, John R., Bell, Taylor, Benatti, Serena, Biazzo, Katia, Błęcka, Maria, Bonomo, Aldo Stefano, Bosch, José, Bossini, Diego, Bourgalais, Jeremy, Brienza, Daniele, Brucalassi, Anna, Bruno, Giovanni, Caines, Hamish, Calcutt, Simon, Campante, Tiago, Canestrari, Rodolfo, Cann, Nick, Casali, Giada, Casas, Albert, Cassone, Giuseppe, Cara, Christophe, Carone, Ludmila, Carrasco, Nathalie, Chioetto, Paolo, Cortecchia, Fausto, Czupalla, Markus, Chubb, Katy L., Ciaravella, Angela, Claret, Antonio, Claudi, Riccardo, Codella, Claudio, Comas, Maya Garcia, Cracchiolo, Gianluca, Cubillos, Patricio, Peppo, Vania Da, Decin, Leen, Dejabrun, Clemence, Delgado-Mena, Elisa, Giorgio, Anna Di, Diolaiti, Emiliano, Dorn, Caroline, Doublier, Vanessa, Doumayrou, Eric, Dransfield, Georgina, Dumaye, Luc, Dunford, Emma, Escobar, Antonio Jimenez, Eylen, Vincent Van, Farina, Maria, Fedele, Davide, Fernández, Alejandro, Fleury, Benjamin, Fonte, Sergio, Fontignie, Jean, Fossati, Luca, Funke, Bernd, Galy, Camille, Garai, Zoltán, García, Andrés, García-Rigo, Alberto, Garufi, Antonio, Sacco, Giuseppe Germano, Giacobbe, Paolo, Gómez, Alejandro, Gonzalez, Arturo, Gonzalez-Galindo, Francisco, Grassi, Davide, Griffith, Caitlin, Guarcello, Mario Giuseppe, Goujon, Audrey, Gressier, Amélie, Grzegorczyk, Aleksandra, Guillot, Tristan, Guilluy, Gloria, Hargrave, Peter, Hellin, Marie-Laure, Herrero, Enrique, Hills, Matt, Horeau, Benoit, Ito, Yuichi, Jessen, Niels Christian, Kabath, Petr, Kálmán, Szilárd, Kawashima, Yui, Kimura, Tadahiro, Knížek, Antonín, Kreidberg, Laura, Kruid, Ronald, Kruijssen, Diederik J. M., Kubelík, Petr, Lara, Luisa, Lebonnois, Sebastien, Lee, David, Lefevre, Maxence, Lichtenberg, Tim, Locci, Daniele, Lombini, Matteo, Lopez, Alejandro Sanchez, Lorenzani, Andrea, MacDonald, Ryan, Magrini, Laura, Maldonado, Jesus, Marcq, Emmanuel, Migliorini, Alessandra, Modirrousta-Galian, Darius, Molaverdikhani, Karan, Molinari, Sergio, Mollière, Paul, Moreau, Vincent, Morello, Giuseppe, Morinaud, Gilles, Morvan, Mario, Moses, Julianne I., Mouzali, Salima, Nakhjiri, Nariman, Naponiello, Luca, Narita, Norio, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Nikolaou, Athanasia, Noce, Vladimiro, Oliva, Fabrizio, Palladino, Pietro, Papageorgiou, Andreas, Parmentier, Vivien, Peres, Giovanni, Pérez, Javier, Perez-Hoyos, Santiago, Perger, Manuel, Pestellini, Cesare Cecchi, Petralia, Antonino, Philippon, Anne, Piccialli, Arianna, Pignatari, Marco, Piotto, Giampaolo, Podio, Linda, Polenta, Gianluca, Preti, Giampaolo, Pribulla, Theodor, Puertas, Manuel Lopez, Rainer, Monica, Reess, Jean-Michel, Rimmer, Paul, Robert, Séverine, Rosich, Albert, Rossi, Loic, Rust, Duncan, Saleh, Ayman, Sanna, Nicoletta, Schisano, Eugenio, Schreiber, Laura, Schwartz, Victor, Scippa, Antonio, Seli, Bálint, Shibata, Sho, Simpson, Caroline, Shorttle, Oliver, Skaf, N., Skup, Konrad, Sobiecki, Mateusz, Sousa, Sergio, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Šponer, Judit, Steiger, Lukas, Tanga, Paolo, Tackley, Paul, Taylor, Jake, Tecza, Matthias, Terenzi, Luca, Tremblin, Pascal, Tozzi, Andrea, Triaud, Amaury, Trompet, Loïc, Tsai, Shang-Min, Tsantaki, Maria, Valencia, Diana, Vandaele, Ann Carine, Swaelmen, Mathieu Van der, Vardan, Adibekyan, Vasisht, Gautam, Vazan, Allona, Vecchio, Ciro Del, Waltham, Dave, Wawer, Piotr, Widemann, Thomas, Wolkenberg, Paulina, Yip, Gordon Hou, Yung, Yuk, Zilinskas, Mantas, Zingales, Tiziano, Zuppella, Paola, Tinetti, Giovanna, Eccleston, Paul, Haswell, Carole, Lagage, Pierre-Olivier, Leconte, Jérémy, Lüftinger, Theresa, Micela, Giusi, Min, Michel, Pilbratt, Göran, Puig, Ludovic, Swain, Mark, Testi, Leonardo, Turrini, Diego, Vandenbussche, Bart, Osorio, Maria Rosa Zapatero, Aret, Anna, Beaulieu, Jean-Philippe, Buchhave, Lars, Ferus, Martin, Griffin, Matt, Guedel, Manuel, Hartogh, Paul, Machado, Pedro, Malaguti, Giuseppe, Pallé, Enric, Rataj, Mirek, Ray, Tom, Ribas, Ignasi, Szabó, Robert, Tan, Jonathan, Werner, Stephanie, Ratti, Francesco, Scharmberg, Carsten, Salvignol, Jean-Christophe, Boudin, Nathalie, Halain, Jean-Philippe, Haag, Martin, Crouzet, Pierre-Elie, Kohley, Ralf, Symonds, Kate, Renk, Florian, Caldwell, Andrew, Abreu, Manuel, Alonso, Gustavo, Amiaux, Jerome, Berthé, Michel, Bishop, Georgia, Bowles, Neil, Carmona, Manuel, Coffey, Deirdre, Colomé, Josep, Crook, Martin, Désjonqueres, Lucile, Díaz, José J., Drummond, Rachel, Focardi, Mauro, Gómez, Jose M., Holmes, Warren, Krijger, Matthijs, Kovacs, Zsolt, Hunt, Tom, Machado, Richardo, Morgante, Gianluca, Ollivier, Marc, Ottensamer, Roland, Pace, Emanuele, Pagano, Teresa, Pascale, Enzo, Pearson, Chris, Pedersen, Søren Møller, Pniel, Moshe, Roose, Stéphane, Savini, Giorgio, Stamper, Richard, Szirovicza, Peter, Szoke, Janos, Tosh, Ian, Vilardell, Francesc, Barstow, Joanna, Borsato, Luca, Casewell, Sarah, Changeat, Quentin, Charnay, Benjamin, Civiš, Svatopluk, Foresto, Vincent Coudé du, Coustenis, Athena, Cowan, Nicolas, Danielski, Camilla, Demangeon, Olivier, Drossart, Pierre, Edwards, Billy N., Gilli, Gabriella, Encrenaz, Therese, Kiss, Csaba, Kokori, Anastasia, Ikoma, Masahiro, Morales, Juan Carlos, Mendonça, João, Moneti, Andrea, Mugnai, Lorenzo, Muñoz, Antonio García, Helled, Ravit, Kama, Mihkel, Miguel, Yamila, Nikolaou, Nikos, Pagano, Isabella, Panic, Olja, Rengel, Miriam, Rickman, Hans, Rocchetto, Marco, Sarkar, Subhajit, Selsis, Franck, Tennyson, Jonathan, Tsiaras, Angelos, Venot, Olivia, Vida, Krisztián, Waldmann, Ingo P., Yurchenko, Sergey, Szabó, Gyula, Zellem, Rob, Al-Refaie, Ahmed, Alvarez, Javier Perez, Anisman, Lara, Arhancet, Axel, Ateca, Jaume, Baeyens, Robin, Barnes, John R., Bell, Taylor, Benatti, Serena, Biazzo, Katia, Błęcka, Maria, Bonomo, Aldo Stefano, Bosch, José, Bossini, Diego, Bourgalais, Jeremy, Brienza, Daniele, Brucalassi, Anna, Bruno, Giovanni, Caines, Hamish, Calcutt, Simon, Campante, Tiago, Canestrari, Rodolfo, Cann, Nick, Casali, Giada, Casas, Albert, Cassone, Giuseppe, Cara, Christophe, Carone, Ludmila, Carrasco, Nathalie, Chioetto, Paolo, Cortecchia, Fausto, Czupalla, Markus, Chubb, Katy L., Ciaravella, Angela, Claret, Antonio, Claudi, Riccardo, Codella, Claudio, Comas, Maya Garcia, Cracchiolo, Gianluca, Cubillos, Patricio, Peppo, Vania Da, Decin, Leen, Dejabrun, Clemence, Delgado-Mena, Elisa, Giorgio, Anna Di, Diolaiti, Emiliano, Dorn, Caroline, Doublier, Vanessa, Doumayrou, Eric, Dransfield, Georgina, Dumaye, Luc, Dunford, Emma, Escobar, Antonio Jimenez, Eylen, Vincent Van, Farina, Maria, Fedele, Davide, Fernández, Alejandro, Fleury, Benjamin, Fonte, Sergio, Fontignie, Jean, Fossati, Luca, Funke, Bernd, Galy, Camille, Garai, Zoltán, García, Andrés, García-Rigo, Alberto, Garufi, Antonio, Sacco, Giuseppe Germano, Giacobbe, Paolo, Gómez, Alejandro, Gonzalez, Arturo, Gonzalez-Galindo, Francisco, Grassi, Davide, Griffith, Caitlin, Guarcello, Mario Giuseppe, Goujon, Audrey, Gressier, Amélie, Grzegorczyk, Aleksandra, Guillot, Tristan, Guilluy, Gloria, Hargrave, Peter, Hellin, Marie-Laure, Herrero, Enrique, Hills, Matt, Horeau, Benoit, Ito, Yuichi, Jessen, Niels Christian, Kabath, Petr, Kálmán, Szilárd, Kawashima, Yui, Kimura, Tadahiro, Knížek, Antonín, Kreidberg, Laura, Kruid, Ronald, Kruijssen, Diederik J. M., Kubelík, Petr, Lara, Luisa, Lebonnois, Sebastien, Lee, David, Lefevre, Maxence, Lichtenberg, Tim, Locci, Daniele, Lombini, Matteo, Lopez, Alejandro Sanchez, Lorenzani, Andrea, MacDonald, Ryan, Magrini, Laura, Maldonado, Jesus, Marcq, Emmanuel, Migliorini, Alessandra, Modirrousta-Galian, Darius, Molaverdikhani, Karan, Molinari, Sergio, Mollière, Paul, Moreau, Vincent, Morello, Giuseppe, Morinaud, Gilles, Morvan, Mario, Moses, Julianne I., Mouzali, Salima, Nakhjiri, Nariman, Naponiello, Luca, Narita, Norio, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Nikolaou, Athanasia, Noce, Vladimiro, Oliva, Fabrizio, Palladino, Pietro, Papageorgiou, Andreas, Parmentier, Vivien, Peres, Giovanni, Pérez, Javier, Perez-Hoyos, Santiago, Perger, Manuel, Pestellini, Cesare Cecchi, Petralia, Antonino, Philippon, Anne, Piccialli, Arianna, Pignatari, Marco, Piotto, Giampaolo, Podio, Linda, Polenta, Gianluca, Preti, Giampaolo, Pribulla, Theodor, Puertas, Manuel Lopez, Rainer, Monica, Reess, Jean-Michel, Rimmer, Paul, Robert, Séverine, Rosich, Albert, Rossi, Loic, Rust, Duncan, Saleh, Ayman, Sanna, Nicoletta, Schisano, Eugenio, Schreiber, Laura, Schwartz, Victor, Scippa, Antonio, Seli, Bálint, Shibata, Sho, Simpson, Caroline, Shorttle, Oliver, Skaf, N., Skup, Konrad, Sobiecki, Mateusz, Sousa, Sergio, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Šponer, Judit, Steiger, Lukas, Tanga, Paolo, Tackley, Paul, Taylor, Jake, Tecza, Matthias, Terenzi, Luca, Tremblin, Pascal, Tozzi, Andrea, Triaud, Amaury, Trompet, Loïc, Tsai, Shang-Min, Tsantaki, Maria, Valencia, Diana, Vandaele, Ann Carine, Swaelmen, Mathieu Van der, Vardan, Adibekyan, Vasisht, Gautam, Vazan, Allona, Vecchio, Ciro Del, Waltham, Dave, Wawer, Piotr, Widemann, Thomas, Wolkenberg, Paulina, Yip, Gordon Hou, Yung, Yuk, Zilinskas, Mantas, Zingales, Tiziano, and Zuppella, Paola
Abstract: The concept of a mission devoted to atmospheric characterization of exoplanets through transit spectroscopy was first considered in Europe in 2007, shortly after the DARWIN proposal submitted to ESA for the first Cosmic Vision call for L-class missions was rejected because of the need for further scientific and technical developments. Following the decision, both ESA (EP-RAT panel report, October 2010) and the Exoplanetary Community (Blue Dot Team – Barcelona conference, September 2009) started a discussion to define a roadmap for exoplanetary research. Both groups concluded that an intermediate step was needed, both scientifically and technically, before the characterisation of Earth-like planets could be tackled, and recommended a transit spectroscopy mission as a first step to atmospheric characterisation. A short study was undertaken at ESTEC in the context of the ExoPlanet Roadmap Advisory Team mandate under the name ESM (Exoplanet Spectroscopy Mission). Following this study the Exoplanet Characterisation Observatory (EChO) was proposed and accepted for assessment phase study in the context of the ESA Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 programme M3 medium class mission opportunity. Although eventually not selected, the EChO study1 allowed further development of the technical building blocks and the science case for an eventual transit spectroscopy mission. In response to the call for the next medium class opportunity, Cosmic Vision M4, a proposal was submitted in January 2015: the Atmospheric Remote-sensing InfraRed Large-survey (ARIEL). The mission was one of the three selected in June 2015 for study in a Phase 0/A, a competitive assessment phase2. ARIEL was eventually selected as M4 in March 2018, and went into Phase B1, the definition study phase. The name of the mission has been changed to Ariel after selection. During Phase B1, the science case was studied in depth and consolidated under auspices of the Science Advisory Team, the bulk of the work be
Published: 2020

17. An Updated Study of Potential Targets for Ariel

Author: Edwards, Billy, Mugnai, Lorenzo, Tinetti, Giovanna, Pascale, Enzo, Sarkar, Subhajit, Edwards, Billy, Mugnai, Lorenzo, Tinetti, Giovanna, Pascale, Enzo, and Sarkar, Subhajit
Abstract: Ariel has been selected as ESA's M4 mission for launch in 2028 and is designed for the characterisation of a large and diverse population of exoplanetary atmospheres to provide insights into planetary formation and evolution within our Galaxy. Here we present a study of Ariel's capability to observe currently-known exoplanets and predicted TESS discoveries. We use the Ariel Radiometric model (ArielRad) to simulate the instrument performance and find that ~2000 of these planets have atmospheric signals which could be characterised by Ariel. This list of potential planets contains a diverse range of planetary and stellar parameters. From these we select an example Mission Reference Sample (MRS), comprised of 1000 diverse planets to be completed within the primary mission life, which is consistent with previous studies. We also explore the mission capability to perform an in-depth survey into the atmospheres of smaller planets, which may be enriched or secondary. Earth-sized planets and Super-Earths with atmospheres heavier than H/He will be more challenging to observe spectroscopically. However, by studying the time required to observe ~110 Earth-sized/Super-Earths, we find that Ariel could have substantial capability for providing in-depth observations of smaller planets. Trade-offs between the number and type of planets observed will form a key part of the selection process and this list of planets will continually evolve with new exoplanet discoveries replacing predicted detections. The Ariel target list will be constantly updated and the MRS re-selected to ensure maximum diversity in the population of planets studied during the primary mission life.
Published: 2019
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18. The JCMT BISTRO Survey: The Magnetic Field In The Starless Core $\rho$ Ophiuchus C

Author: Liu, Junhao, Qiu, Keping, Berry, David, Di Francesco, James, Bastien, Pierre, Koch, Patrick M., Furuya, Ray S., Kim, Kee-Tae, Coudé, Simon, Lee, Chang Won, Soam, Archana, Eswaraiah, Chakali, Li, Di, Hwang, Jihye, Lyo, A-Ran, Pattle, Kate, Hasegawa, Tetsuo, Kwon, Woojin, Lai, Shih-Ping, Ward-Thompson, Derek, Ching, Tao-Chung, Chen, Zhiwei, Gu, Qilao, Li, Dalei, Li, Hua-bai, Liu, Hong-Li, Qian, Lei, Wang, Hongchi, Yuan, Jinghua, Zhang, Chuan-Peng, Zhang, Guoyin, Zhang, Ya-Peng, Zhou, Jianjun, Zhu, Lei, André, Philippe, Arzoumanian, Doris, Aso, Yusuke, Byun, Do-Young, Chen, Michael Chun-Yuan, Chen, Huei-Ru Vivien, Chen, Wen Ping, Cho, Jungyeon, Choi, Minho, Chrysostomou, Antonio, Chung, Eun Jung, Doi, Yasuo, Drabek-Maunder, Emily, Dowell, C. Darren, Eyres, Stewart P. S., Falle, Sam, Fanciullo, Lapo, Fiege, Jason, Franzmann, Erica, Friberg, Per, Friesen, Rachel K., Fuller, Gary, Gledhill, Tim, Graves, Sarah F., Greaves, Jane S., Griffin, Matt J., Han, Ilseung, Hatchell, Jennifer, Hayashi, Saeko S., Hoang, Thiem, Holland, Wayne, Houde, Martin, Inoue, Tsuyoshi, Inutsuka, Shu-ichiro, Iwasaki, Kazunari, Jeong, Il-Gyo, Johnstone, Doug, Kanamori, Yoshihiro, Kang, Ji-hyun, Kang, Miju, Kang, Sung-ju, Kataoka, Akimasa, Kawabata, Koji S., Kemper, Francisca, Kim, Gwanjeong, Kim, Jongsoo, Kim, Kyoung Hee, Kim, Mi-Ryang, Kim, Shinyoung, Kirk, Jason M., Kobayashi, Masato I. N., Kusune, Takayoshi, Kwon, Jungmi, Lacaille, Kevin M., Lee, Chin-Fei, Lee, Jeong-Eun, Lee, Hyeseung, Lee, Sang-Sung, Liu, Sheng-Yuan, Liu, Tie, van Loo, Sven, Mairs, Steve, Matsumura, Masafumi, Matthews, Brenda C., Moriarty-Schieven, Gerald H., Nagata, Tetsuya, Nakamura, Fumitaka, Nakanishi, Hiroyuki, Ohashi, Nagayoshi, Onaka, Takashi, Parker, Josh, Parsons, Harriet, Pascale, Enzo, Peretto, Nicolas, Pon, Andy, Pyo, Tae-Soo, Rao, Ramprasad, Rawlings, Mark G., Retter, Brendan, Richer, John, Rigby, Andrew, Robitaille, Jean-François, Sadavoy, Sarah, Saito, Hiro, Savini, Giorgio, Scaife, Anna M. M., Seta, Masumichi, Shinnaga, Hiroko, Tamura, Motohide, Tang, Ya-Wen, Tomisaka, Kohji, Tsukamoto, Yusuke, Wang, Jia-Wei, Whitworth, Anthony P., Yen, Hsi-Wei, Yoo, Hyunju, Zenko, Tetsuya, Liu, Junhao, Qiu, Keping, Berry, David, Di Francesco, James, Bastien, Pierre, Koch, Patrick M., Furuya, Ray S., Kim, Kee-Tae, Coudé, Simon, Lee, Chang Won, Soam, Archana, Eswaraiah, Chakali, Li, Di, Hwang, Jihye, Lyo, A-Ran, Pattle, Kate, Hasegawa, Tetsuo, Kwon, Woojin, Lai, Shih-Ping, Ward-Thompson, Derek, Ching, Tao-Chung, Chen, Zhiwei, Gu, Qilao, Li, Dalei, Li, Hua-bai, Liu, Hong-Li, Qian, Lei, Wang, Hongchi, Yuan, Jinghua, Zhang, Chuan-Peng, Zhang, Guoyin, Zhang, Ya-Peng, Zhou, Jianjun, Zhu, Lei, André, Philippe, Arzoumanian, Doris, Aso, Yusuke, Byun, Do-Young, Chen, Michael Chun-Yuan, Chen, Huei-Ru Vivien, Chen, Wen Ping, Cho, Jungyeon, Choi, Minho, Chrysostomou, Antonio, Chung, Eun Jung, Doi, Yasuo, Drabek-Maunder, Emily, Dowell, C. Darren, Eyres, Stewart P. S., Falle, Sam, Fanciullo, Lapo, Fiege, Jason, Franzmann, Erica, Friberg, Per, Friesen, Rachel K., Fuller, Gary, Gledhill, Tim, Graves, Sarah F., Greaves, Jane S., Griffin, Matt J., Han, Ilseung, Hatchell, Jennifer, Hayashi, Saeko S., Hoang, Thiem, Holland, Wayne, Houde, Martin, Inoue, Tsuyoshi, Inutsuka, Shu-ichiro, Iwasaki, Kazunari, Jeong, Il-Gyo, Johnstone, Doug, Kanamori, Yoshihiro, Kang, Ji-hyun, Kang, Miju, Kang, Sung-ju, Kataoka, Akimasa, Kawabata, Koji S., Kemper, Francisca, Kim, Gwanjeong, Kim, Jongsoo, Kim, Kyoung Hee, Kim, Mi-Ryang, Kim, Shinyoung, Kirk, Jason M., Kobayashi, Masato I. N., Kusune, Takayoshi, Kwon, Jungmi, Lacaille, Kevin M., Lee, Chin-Fei, Lee, Jeong-Eun, Lee, Hyeseung, Lee, Sang-Sung, Liu, Sheng-Yuan, Liu, Tie, van Loo, Sven, Mairs, Steve, Matsumura, Masafumi, Matthews, Brenda C., Moriarty-Schieven, Gerald H., Nagata, Tetsuya, Nakamura, Fumitaka, Nakanishi, Hiroyuki, Ohashi, Nagayoshi, Onaka, Takashi, Parker, Josh, Parsons, Harriet, Pascale, Enzo, Peretto, Nicolas, Pon, Andy, Pyo, Tae-Soo, Rao, Ramprasad, Rawlings, Mark G., Retter, Brendan, Richer, John, Rigby, Andrew, Robitaille, Jean-François, Sadavoy, Sarah, Saito, Hiro, Savini, Giorgio, Scaife, Anna M. M., Seta, Masumichi, Shinnaga, Hiroko, Tamura, Motohide, Tang, Ya-Wen, Tomisaka, Kohji, Tsukamoto, Yusuke, Wang, Jia-Wei, Whitworth, Anthony P., Yen, Hsi-Wei, Yoo, Hyunju, and Zenko, Tetsuya
Abstract: We report 850~$\mu$m dust polarization observations of a low-mass ($\sim$12 $M_{\odot}$) starless core in the $\rho$ Ophiuchus cloud, Ophiuchus C, made with the POL-2 instrument on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) as part of the JCMT B-fields In STar-forming Region Observations (BISTRO) survey. We detect an ordered magnetic field projected on the plane of sky in the starless core. The magnetic field across the $\sim$0.1~pc core shows a predominant northeast-southwest orientation centering between $\sim$40$^\circ$ to $\sim$100$^\circ$, indicating that the field in the core is well aligned with the magnetic field in lower-density regions of the cloud probed by near-infrared observations and also the cloud-scale magnetic field traced by Planck observations. The polarization percentage ($P$) decreases with an increasing total intensity ($I$) with a power-law index of $-$1.03 $\pm$ 0.05. We estimate the plane-of-sky field strength ($B_{\mathrm{pos}}$) using modified Davis-Chandrasekhar-Fermi (DCF) methods based on structure function (SF), auto-correlation (ACF), and unsharp masking (UM) analyses. We find that the estimates from the SF, ACF, and UM methods yield strengths of 103 $\pm$ 46 $\mu$G, 136 $\pm$ 69 $\mu$G, and 213 $\pm$ 115 $\mu$G, respectively. Our calculations suggest that the Ophiuchus C core is near magnetically critical or slightly magnetically supercritical (i.e. unstable to collapse). The total magnetic energy calculated from the SF method is comparable to the turbulent energy in Ophiuchus C, while the ACF method and the UM method only set upper limits for the total magnetic energy because of large uncertainties., Comment: 22 pages, 12 figures
Published: 2019
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19. Observing exoplanets in the near-infrared from a high altitude balloon platform

Author: Nagler, Peter C., Edwards, Billy, Kilpatrick, Brian, Lewis, Nikole K., Maxted, Pierre, Netterfield, C. Barth, Parmentier, Vivien, Pascale, Enzo, Sarkar, Subhajit, Tucker, Gregory S., Waldmann, Ingo, Nagler, Peter C., Edwards, Billy, Kilpatrick, Brian, Lewis, Nikole K., Maxted, Pierre, Netterfield, C. Barth, Parmentier, Vivien, Pascale, Enzo, Sarkar, Subhajit, Tucker, Gregory S., and Waldmann, Ingo
Abstract: Although there exists a large sample of known exoplanets, little spectroscopic data exists that can be used to study their global atmospheric properties. This deficiency can be addressed by performing phase-resolved spectroscopy -- continuous spectroscopic observations of a planet's entire orbit about its host star -- of transiting exoplanets. Planets with characteristics suitable for atmospheric characterization have orbits of several days, thus phase curve observations are highly resource intensive, especially for shared use facilities. In this work, we show that an infrared spectrograph operating from a high altitude balloon platform can perform phase-resolved spectroscopy of hot Jupiter-type exoplanets with performance comparable to a space-based telescope. Using the EXoplanet Climate Infrared TElescope (EXCITE) experiment as an example, we quantify the impact of the most important systematic effects that we expect to encounter from a balloon platform. We show an instrument like EXCITE will have the stability and sensitivity to significantly advance our understanding of exoplanet atmospheres. Such an instrument will both complement and serve as a critical bridge between current and future space-based near infrared spectroscopic instruments., Comment: 18 pages, 9 figures. Accepted for publication by the Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation
Published: 2019
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20. An Updated Study of Potential Targets for Ariel

Author: Edwards, Billy, Mugnai, Lorenzo, Tinetti, Giovanna, Pascale, Enzo, Sarkar, Subhajit, Edwards, Billy, Mugnai, Lorenzo, Tinetti, Giovanna, Pascale, Enzo, and Sarkar, Subhajit
Abstract: Ariel has been selected as ESA's M4 mission for launch in 2028 and is designed for the characterisation of a large and diverse population of exoplanetary atmospheres to provide insights into planetary formation and evolution within our Galaxy. Here we present a study of Ariel's capability to observe currently-known exoplanets and predicted TESS discoveries. We use the Ariel Radiometric model (ArielRad) to simulate the instrument performance and find that ~2000 of these planets have atmospheric signals which could be characterised by Ariel. This list of potential planets contains a diverse range of planetary and stellar parameters. From these we select an example Mission Reference Sample (MRS), comprised of 1000 diverse planets to be completed within the primary mission life, which is consistent with previous studies. We also explore the mission capability to perform an in-depth survey into the atmospheres of smaller planets, which may be enriched or secondary. Earth-sized planets and Super-Earths with atmospheres heavier than H/He will be more challenging to observe spectroscopically. However, by studying the time required to observe ~110 Earth-sized/Super-Earths, we find that Ariel could have substantial capability for providing in-depth observations of smaller planets. Trade-offs between the number and type of planets observed will form a key part of the selection process and this list of planets will continually evolve with new exoplanet discoveries replacing predicted detections. The Ariel target list will be constantly updated and the MRS re-selected to ensure maximum diversity in the population of planets studied during the primary mission life.
Published: 2019
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21. Observing exoplanets in the near-infrared from a high altitude balloon platform

Author: Nagler, Peter C., Edwards, Billy, Kilpatrick, Brian, Lewis, Nikole K., Maxted, Pierre, Netterfield, C. Barth, Parmentier, Vivien, Pascale, Enzo, Sarkar, Subhajit, Tucker, Gregory S., Waldmann, Ingo, Nagler, Peter C., Edwards, Billy, Kilpatrick, Brian, Lewis, Nikole K., Maxted, Pierre, Netterfield, C. Barth, Parmentier, Vivien, Pascale, Enzo, Sarkar, Subhajit, Tucker, Gregory S., and Waldmann, Ingo
Abstract: Although there exists a large sample of known exoplanets, little spectroscopic data exists that can be used to study their global atmospheric properties. This deficiency can be addressed by performing phase-resolved spectroscopy -- continuous spectroscopic observations of a planet's entire orbit about its host star -- of transiting exoplanets. Planets with characteristics suitable for atmospheric characterization have orbits of several days, thus phase curve observations are highly resource intensive, especially for shared use facilities. In this work, we show that an infrared spectrograph operating from a high altitude balloon platform can perform phase-resolved spectroscopy of hot Jupiter-type exoplanets with performance comparable to a space-based telescope. Using the EXoplanet Climate Infrared TElescope (EXCITE) experiment as an example, we quantify the impact of the most important systematic effects that we expect to encounter from a balloon platform. We show an instrument like EXCITE will have the stability and sensitivity to significantly advance our understanding of exoplanet atmospheres. Such an instrument will both complement and serve as a critical bridge between current and future space-based near infrared spectroscopic instruments., Comment: 18 pages, 9 figures. Accepted for publication by the Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation
Published: 2019
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22. The JCMT BISTRO Survey: The Magnetic Field In The Starless Core $\rho$ Ophiuchus C

Author: Liu, Junhao, Qiu, Keping, Berry, David, Di Francesco, James, Bastien, Pierre, Koch, Patrick M., Furuya, Ray S., Kim, Kee-Tae, Coudé, Simon, Lee, Chang Won, Soam, Archana, Eswaraiah, Chakali, Li, Di, Hwang, Jihye, Lyo, A-Ran, Pattle, Kate, Hasegawa, Tetsuo, Kwon, Woojin, Lai, Shih-Ping, Ward-Thompson, Derek, Ching, Tao-Chung, Chen, Zhiwei, Gu, Qilao, Li, Dalei, Li, Hua-bai, Liu, Hong-Li, Qian, Lei, Wang, Hongchi, Yuan, Jinghua, Zhang, Chuan-Peng, Zhang, Guoyin, Zhang, Ya-Peng, Zhou, Jianjun, Zhu, Lei, André, Philippe, Arzoumanian, Doris, Aso, Yusuke, Byun, Do-Young, Chen, Michael Chun-Yuan, Chen, Huei-Ru Vivien, Chen, Wen Ping, Cho, Jungyeon, Choi, Minho, Chrysostomou, Antonio, Chung, Eun Jung, Doi, Yasuo, Drabek-Maunder, Emily, Dowell, C. Darren, Eyres, Stewart P. S., Falle, Sam, Fanciullo, Lapo, Fiege, Jason, Franzmann, Erica, Friberg, Per, Friesen, Rachel K., Fuller, Gary, Gledhill, Tim, Graves, Sarah F., Greaves, Jane S., Griffin, Matt J., Han, Ilseung, Hatchell, Jennifer, Hayashi, Saeko S., Hoang, Thiem, Holland, Wayne, Houde, Martin, Inoue, Tsuyoshi, Inutsuka, Shu-ichiro, Iwasaki, Kazunari, Jeong, Il-Gyo, Johnstone, Doug, Kanamori, Yoshihiro, Kang, Ji-hyun, Kang, Miju, Kang, Sung-ju, Kataoka, Akimasa, Kawabata, Koji S., Kemper, Francisca, Kim, Gwanjeong, Kim, Jongsoo, Kim, Kyoung Hee, Kim, Mi-Ryang, Kim, Shinyoung, Kirk, Jason M., Kobayashi, Masato I. N., Kusune, Takayoshi, Kwon, Jungmi, Lacaille, Kevin M., Lee, Chin-Fei, Lee, Jeong-Eun, Lee, Hyeseung, Lee, Sang-Sung, Liu, Sheng-Yuan, Liu, Tie, van Loo, Sven, Mairs, Steve, Matsumura, Masafumi, Matthews, Brenda C., Moriarty-Schieven, Gerald H., Nagata, Tetsuya, Nakamura, Fumitaka, Nakanishi, Hiroyuki, Ohashi, Nagayoshi, Onaka, Takashi, Parker, Josh, Parsons, Harriet, Pascale, Enzo, Peretto, Nicolas, Pon, Andy, Pyo, Tae-Soo, Rao, Ramprasad, Rawlings, Mark G., Retter, Brendan, Richer, John, Rigby, Andrew, Robitaille, Jean-François, Sadavoy, Sarah, Saito, Hiro, Savini, Giorgio, Scaife, Anna M. M., Seta, Masumichi, Shinnaga, Hiroko, Tamura, Motohide, Tang, Ya-Wen, Tomisaka, Kohji, Tsukamoto, Yusuke, Wang, Jia-Wei, Whitworth, Anthony P., Yen, Hsi-Wei, Yoo, Hyunju, Zenko, Tetsuya, Liu, Junhao, Qiu, Keping, Berry, David, Di Francesco, James, Bastien, Pierre, Koch, Patrick M., Furuya, Ray S., Kim, Kee-Tae, Coudé, Simon, Lee, Chang Won, Soam, Archana, Eswaraiah, Chakali, Li, Di, Hwang, Jihye, Lyo, A-Ran, Pattle, Kate, Hasegawa, Tetsuo, Kwon, Woojin, Lai, Shih-Ping, Ward-Thompson, Derek, Ching, Tao-Chung, Chen, Zhiwei, Gu, Qilao, Li, Dalei, Li, Hua-bai, Liu, Hong-Li, Qian, Lei, Wang, Hongchi, Yuan, Jinghua, Zhang, Chuan-Peng, Zhang, Guoyin, Zhang, Ya-Peng, Zhou, Jianjun, Zhu, Lei, André, Philippe, Arzoumanian, Doris, Aso, Yusuke, Byun, Do-Young, Chen, Michael Chun-Yuan, Chen, Huei-Ru Vivien, Chen, Wen Ping, Cho, Jungyeon, Choi, Minho, Chrysostomou, Antonio, Chung, Eun Jung, Doi, Yasuo, Drabek-Maunder, Emily, Dowell, C. Darren, Eyres, Stewart P. S., Falle, Sam, Fanciullo, Lapo, Fiege, Jason, Franzmann, Erica, Friberg, Per, Friesen, Rachel K., Fuller, Gary, Gledhill, Tim, Graves, Sarah F., Greaves, Jane S., Griffin, Matt J., Han, Ilseung, Hatchell, Jennifer, Hayashi, Saeko S., Hoang, Thiem, Holland, Wayne, Houde, Martin, Inoue, Tsuyoshi, Inutsuka, Shu-ichiro, Iwasaki, Kazunari, Jeong, Il-Gyo, Johnstone, Doug, Kanamori, Yoshihiro, Kang, Ji-hyun, Kang, Miju, Kang, Sung-ju, Kataoka, Akimasa, Kawabata, Koji S., Kemper, Francisca, Kim, Gwanjeong, Kim, Jongsoo, Kim, Kyoung Hee, Kim, Mi-Ryang, Kim, Shinyoung, Kirk, Jason M., Kobayashi, Masato I. N., Kusune, Takayoshi, Kwon, Jungmi, Lacaille, Kevin M., Lee, Chin-Fei, Lee, Jeong-Eun, Lee, Hyeseung, Lee, Sang-Sung, Liu, Sheng-Yuan, Liu, Tie, van Loo, Sven, Mairs, Steve, Matsumura, Masafumi, Matthews, Brenda C., Moriarty-Schieven, Gerald H., Nagata, Tetsuya, Nakamura, Fumitaka, Nakanishi, Hiroyuki, Ohashi, Nagayoshi, Onaka, Takashi, Parker, Josh, Parsons, Harriet, Pascale, Enzo, Peretto, Nicolas, Pon, Andy, Pyo, Tae-Soo, Rao, Ramprasad, Rawlings, Mark G., Retter, Brendan, Richer, John, Rigby, Andrew, Robitaille, Jean-François, Sadavoy, Sarah, Saito, Hiro, Savini, Giorgio, Scaife, Anna M. M., Seta, Masumichi, Shinnaga, Hiroko, Tamura, Motohide, Tang, Ya-Wen, Tomisaka, Kohji, Tsukamoto, Yusuke, Wang, Jia-Wei, Whitworth, Anthony P., Yen, Hsi-Wei, Yoo, Hyunju, and Zenko, Tetsuya
Abstract: We report 850~$\mu$m dust polarization observations of a low-mass ($\sim$12 $M_{\odot}$) starless core in the $\rho$ Ophiuchus cloud, Ophiuchus C, made with the POL-2 instrument on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) as part of the JCMT B-fields In STar-forming Region Observations (BISTRO) survey. We detect an ordered magnetic field projected on the plane of sky in the starless core. The magnetic field across the $\sim$0.1~pc core shows a predominant northeast-southwest orientation centering between $\sim$40$^\circ$ to $\sim$100$^\circ$, indicating that the field in the core is well aligned with the magnetic field in lower-density regions of the cloud probed by near-infrared observations and also the cloud-scale magnetic field traced by Planck observations. The polarization percentage ($P$) decreases with an increasing total intensity ($I$) with a power-law index of $-$1.03 $\pm$ 0.05. We estimate the plane-of-sky field strength ($B_{\mathrm{pos}}$) using modified Davis-Chandrasekhar-Fermi (DCF) methods based on structure function (SF), auto-correlation (ACF), and unsharp masking (UM) analyses. We find that the estimates from the SF, ACF, and UM methods yield strengths of 103 $\pm$ 46 $\mu$G, 136 $\pm$ 69 $\mu$G, and 213 $\pm$ 115 $\mu$G, respectively. Our calculations suggest that the Ophiuchus C core is near magnetically critical or slightly magnetically supercritical (i.e. unstable to collapse). The total magnetic energy calculated from the SF method is comparable to the turbulent energy in Ophiuchus C, while the ACF method and the UM method only set upper limits for the total magnetic energy because of large uncertainties., Comment: 22 pages, 12 figures
Published: 2019
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23. A chemical survey of exoplanets with ARIEL

Author: Tinetti, Giovanna, Drossart, Pierre, Eccleston, Paul, Hartogh, Paul, Heske, Astrid, Leconte, Jérémy, Micela, Giusi, Ollivier, Marc, Pilbratt, Göran, Puig, Ludovic, Turrini, Diego, Vandenbussche, Bart, Wolkenberg, Paulina, Beaulieu, Jean-Philippe, Buchhave, Lars A., Ferus, Martin, Griffin, Matt, Guedel, Manuel, Justtanont, Kay, Lagage, Pierre-Olivier, Machado, Pedro, Malaguti, Giuseppe, Min, Michiel, Nørgaard-Nielsen, Hans Ulrik, Rataj, Mirek, Ray, Tom, Ribas, Ignasi, Swain, Mark, Szabo, Robert, Werner, Stephanie, Barstow, Joanna, Burleigh, Matt, Cho, James, du Foresto, Vincent Coudé, Coustenis, Athena, Decin, Leen, Encrenaz, Therese, Galand, Marina, Gillon, Michael, Helled, Ravit, Morales, Juan Carlos, Muñoz, Antonio García, Moneti, Andrea, Pagano, Isabella, Pascale, Enzo, Piccioni, Giuseppe, Pinfield, David, Sarkar, Subhajit, Selsis, Franck, Tennyson, Jonathan, Triaud, Amaury, Venot, Olivia, Waldmann, Ingo, Waltham, David, Wright, Gillian, Amiaux, Jerome, Auguères, Jean-Louis, Berthé, Michel, Bezawada, Naidu, Bishop, Georgia, Bowles, Neil, Coffey, Deirdre, Colomé, Josep, Crook, Martin, Crouzet, Pierre-Elie, Da Peppo, Vania, Sanz, Isabel Escudero, Focardi, Mauro, Frericks, Martin, Hunt, Tom, Kohley, Ralf, Middleton, Kevin, Morgante, Gianluca, Ottensamer, Roland, Pace, Emanuele, Pearson, Chris, Stamper, Richard, Symonds, Kate, Rengel, Miriam, Renotte, Etienne, Ade, Peter, Affer, Laura, Alard, Christophe, Allard, Nicole, Altieri, Francesca, André, Yves, Arena, Claudio, Argyriou, Ioannis, Aylward, Alan, Baccani, Cristian, Bakos, Gaspar, Banaszkiewicz, Marek, Barlow, Mike, Batista, Virginie, Bellucci, Giancarlo, Benatti, Serena, Bernardi, Pernelle, Bézard, Bruno, Blecka, Maria, Bolmont, Emeline, Bonfond, Bertrand, Bonito, Rosaria, Bonomo, Aldo S., Brucato, John Robert, Brun, Allan Sacha, Bryson, Ian, Bujwan, Waldemar, Casewell, Sarah, Charnay, Bejamin, Pestellini, Cesare Cecchi, Chen, Guo, Ciaravella, Angela, Claudi, Riccardo, Clédassou, Rodolphe, Damasso, Mario, Damiano, Mario, Danielski, Camilla, Deroo, Pieter, Di Giorgio, Anna Maria, Dominik, Carsten, Doublier, Vanessa, Doyle, Simon, Doyon, René, Drummond, Benjamin, Duong, Bastien, Eales, Stephen, Edwards, Billy, Farina, Maria, Flaccomio, Ettore, Fletcher, Leigh, Forget, François, Fossey, Steve, Fränz, Markus, Fujii, Yuka, García-Piquer, Álvaro, Gear, Walter, Geoffray, Hervé, Gérard, Jean Claude, Gesa, Lluis, Gomez, H., Graczyk, Rafał, Griffith, Caitlin, Grodent, Denis, Guarcello, Mario Giuseppe, Gustin, Jacques, Hamano, Keiko, Hargrave, Peter, Hello, Yann, Heng, Kevin, Herrero, Enrique, Hornstrup, Allan, Hubert, Benoit, Ida, Shigeru, Ikoma, Masahiro, Iro, Nicolas, Irwin, Patrick, Jarchow, Christopher, Jaubert, Jean, Jones, Hugh, Julien, Queyrel, Kameda, Shingo, Kerschbaum, Franz, Kervella, Pierre, Koskinen, Tommi, Krijger, Matthijs, Krupp, Norbert, Lafarga, Marina, Landini, Federico, Lellouch, Emanuel, Leto, Giuseppe, Luntzer, A., Rank-Lüftinger, Theresa, Maggio, Antonio, Maldonado, Jesus, Maillard, Jean-Pierre, Mall, Urs, Marquette, Jean-Baptiste, Mathis, Stephane, Maxted, Pierre, Matsuo, Taro, Medvedev, Alexander, Miguel, Yamila, Minier, Vincent, Morello, Giuseppe, Mura, Alessandro, Narita, Norio, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Nguyen Tong, N., Noce, Vladimiro, Oliva, Fabrizio, Palle, Enric, Palmer, Paul, Pancrazzi, Maurizio, Papageorgiou, Andreas, Parmentier, Vivien, Perger, Manuel, Petralia, Antonino, Pezzuto, Stefano, Pierrehumbert, Ray, Pillitteri, Ignazio, Piotto, Giampaolo, Pisano, Giampaolo, Prisinzano, Loredana, Radioti, Aikaterini, Réess, Jean-Michel, Rezac, Ladislav, Rocchetto, Marco, Rosich, Albert, Sanna, Nicoletta, Santerne, Alexandre, Savini, Giorgio, Scandariato, Gaetano, Sicardy, Bruno, Sierra, Carles, Sindoni, Giuseppe, Skup, Konrad, Snellen, Ignas, Sobiecki, Mateusz, Soret, Lauriane, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Stiepen, A., Strugarek, Antoine, Taylor, Jake, Taylor, William, Terenzi, Luca, Tessenyi, Marcell, Tsiaras, Angelos, Tucker, C., Valencia, Diana, Vasisht, Gautam, Vazan, Allona, Vilardell, Francesc, Vinatier, Sabrine, Viti, Serena, Waters, Rens, Wawer, Piotr, Wawrzaszek, Anna, Whitworth, Anthony, Yung, Yuk L., Yurchenko, Sergey N., Osorio, María Rosa Zapatero, Zellem, Robert, Zingales, Tiziano, Zwart, Frans, Tinetti, Giovanna, Drossart, Pierre, Eccleston, Paul, Hartogh, Paul, Heske, Astrid, Leconte, Jérémy, Micela, Giusi, Ollivier, Marc, Pilbratt, Göran, Puig, Ludovic, Turrini, Diego, Vandenbussche, Bart, Wolkenberg, Paulina, Beaulieu, Jean-Philippe, Buchhave, Lars A., Ferus, Martin, Griffin, Matt, Guedel, Manuel, Justtanont, Kay, Lagage, Pierre-Olivier, Machado, Pedro, Malaguti, Giuseppe, Min, Michiel, Nørgaard-Nielsen, Hans Ulrik, Rataj, Mirek, Ray, Tom, Ribas, Ignasi, Swain, Mark, Szabo, Robert, Werner, Stephanie, Barstow, Joanna, Burleigh, Matt, Cho, James, du Foresto, Vincent Coudé, Coustenis, Athena, Decin, Leen, Encrenaz, Therese, Galand, Marina, Gillon, Michael, Helled, Ravit, Morales, Juan Carlos, Muñoz, Antonio García, Moneti, Andrea, Pagano, Isabella, Pascale, Enzo, Piccioni, Giuseppe, Pinfield, David, Sarkar, Subhajit, Selsis, Franck, Tennyson, Jonathan, Triaud, Amaury, Venot, Olivia, Waldmann, Ingo, Waltham, David, Wright, Gillian, Amiaux, Jerome, Auguères, Jean-Louis, Berthé, Michel, Bezawada, Naidu, Bishop, Georgia, Bowles, Neil, Coffey, Deirdre, Colomé, Josep, Crook, Martin, Crouzet, Pierre-Elie, Da Peppo, Vania, Sanz, Isabel Escudero, Focardi, Mauro, Frericks, Martin, Hunt, Tom, Kohley, Ralf, Middleton, Kevin, Morgante, Gianluca, Ottensamer, Roland, Pace, Emanuele, Pearson, Chris, Stamper, Richard, Symonds, Kate, Rengel, Miriam, Renotte, Etienne, Ade, Peter, Affer, Laura, Alard, Christophe, Allard, Nicole, Altieri, Francesca, André, Yves, Arena, Claudio, Argyriou, Ioannis, Aylward, Alan, Baccani, Cristian, Bakos, Gaspar, Banaszkiewicz, Marek, Barlow, Mike, Batista, Virginie, Bellucci, Giancarlo, Benatti, Serena, Bernardi, Pernelle, Bézard, Bruno, Blecka, Maria, Bolmont, Emeline, Bonfond, Bertrand, Bonito, Rosaria, Bonomo, Aldo S., Brucato, John Robert, Brun, Allan Sacha, Bryson, Ian, Bujwan, Waldemar, Casewell, Sarah, Charnay, Bejamin, Pestellini, Cesare Cecchi, Chen, Guo, Ciaravella, Angela, Claudi, Riccardo, Clédassou, Rodolphe, Damasso, Mario, Damiano, Mario, Danielski, Camilla, Deroo, Pieter, Di Giorgio, Anna Maria, Dominik, Carsten, Doublier, Vanessa, Doyle, Simon, Doyon, René, Drummond, Benjamin, Duong, Bastien, Eales, Stephen, Edwards, Billy, Farina, Maria, Flaccomio, Ettore, Fletcher, Leigh, Forget, François, Fossey, Steve, Fränz, Markus, Fujii, Yuka, García-Piquer, Álvaro, Gear, Walter, Geoffray, Hervé, Gérard, Jean Claude, Gesa, Lluis, Gomez, H., Graczyk, Rafał, Griffith, Caitlin, Grodent, Denis, Guarcello, Mario Giuseppe, Gustin, Jacques, Hamano, Keiko, Hargrave, Peter, Hello, Yann, Heng, Kevin, Herrero, Enrique, Hornstrup, Allan, Hubert, Benoit, Ida, Shigeru, Ikoma, Masahiro, Iro, Nicolas, Irwin, Patrick, Jarchow, Christopher, Jaubert, Jean, Jones, Hugh, Julien, Queyrel, Kameda, Shingo, Kerschbaum, Franz, Kervella, Pierre, Koskinen, Tommi, Krijger, Matthijs, Krupp, Norbert, Lafarga, Marina, Landini, Federico, Lellouch, Emanuel, Leto, Giuseppe, Luntzer, A., Rank-Lüftinger, Theresa, Maggio, Antonio, Maldonado, Jesus, Maillard, Jean-Pierre, Mall, Urs, Marquette, Jean-Baptiste, Mathis, Stephane, Maxted, Pierre, Matsuo, Taro, Medvedev, Alexander, Miguel, Yamila, Minier, Vincent, Morello, Giuseppe, Mura, Alessandro, Narita, Norio, Nascimbeni, Valerio, Nguyen Tong, N., Noce, Vladimiro, Oliva, Fabrizio, Palle, Enric, Palmer, Paul, Pancrazzi, Maurizio, Papageorgiou, Andreas, Parmentier, Vivien, Perger, Manuel, Petralia, Antonino, Pezzuto, Stefano, Pierrehumbert, Ray, Pillitteri, Ignazio, Piotto, Giampaolo, Pisano, Giampaolo, Prisinzano, Loredana, Radioti, Aikaterini, Réess, Jean-Michel, Rezac, Ladislav, Rocchetto, Marco, Rosich, Albert, Sanna, Nicoletta, Santerne, Alexandre, Savini, Giorgio, Scandariato, Gaetano, Sicardy, Bruno, Sierra, Carles, Sindoni, Giuseppe, Skup, Konrad, Snellen, Ignas, Sobiecki, Mateusz, Soret, Lauriane, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Stiepen, A., Strugarek, Antoine, Taylor, Jake, Taylor, William, Terenzi, Luca, Tessenyi, Marcell, Tsiaras, Angelos, Tucker, C., Valencia, Diana, Vasisht, Gautam, Vazan, Allona, Vilardell, Francesc, Vinatier, Sabrine, Viti, Serena, Waters, Rens, Wawer, Piotr, Wawrzaszek, Anna, Whitworth, Anthony, Yung, Yuk L., Yurchenko, Sergey N., Osorio, María Rosa Zapatero, Zellem, Robert, Zingales, Tiziano, and Zwart, Frans
Abstract: Thousands of exoplanets have now been discovered with a huge range of masses, sizes and orbits: from rocky Earth-like planets to large gas giants grazing the surface of their host star. However, the essential nature of these exoplanets remains largely mysterious: there is no known, discernible pattern linking the presence, size, or orbital parameters of a planet to the nature of its parent star. We have little idea whether the chemistry of a planet is linked to its formation environment, or whether the type of host star drives the physics and chemistry of the planet’s birth, and evolution. ARIEL was conceived to observe a large number (~1000) of transiting planets for statistical understanding, including gas giants, Neptunes, super-Earths and Earth-size planets around a range of host star types using transit spectroscopy in the 1.25–7.8 μm spectral range and multiple narrow-band photometry in the optical. ARIEL will focus on warm and hot planets to take advantage of their well-mixed atmospheres which should show minimal condensation and sequestration of high-Z materials compared to their colder Solar System siblings. Said warm and hot atmospheres are expected to be more representative of the planetary bulk composition. Observations of these warm/hot exoplanets, and in particular of their elemental composition (especially C, O, N, S, Si), will allow the understanding of the early stages of planetary and atmospheric formation during the nebular phase and the following few million years. ARIEL will thus provide a representative picture of the chemical nature of the exoplanets and relate this directly to the type and chemical environment of the host star. ARIEL is designed as a dedicated survey mission for combined-light spectroscopy, capable of observing a large and well-defined planet sample within its 4-year mission lifetime. Transit, eclipse and phase-curve spectroscopy methods, whereby the signal from the star and planet are differentiated using knowledge of the pl
Published: 2018

24. JCMT BISTRO survey: Magnetic Fields within the Hub-Filament Structure in IC 5146

Author: Wang, Jia-Wei, Lai, Shih-Ping, Eswaraiah, Chakali, Pattle, Kate, Di Francesco, James, Johnstone, Doug, Koch, Patrick M., Liu, Tie, Tamura, Motohide, Furuya, Ray S., Onaka, Takashi, Ward-Thompson, Derek, Soam, Archana, Kim, Kee-Tae, Lee, Chang Won, Lee, Chin-Fei, Mairs, Steve, Arzoumanian, Doris, Kim, Gwanjeong, Hoang, Thiem, Hwang, Jihye, Liu, Sheng-Yuan, Berry, David, Bastien, Pierre, Hasegawa, Tetsuo, Kwon, Woojin, Qiu, Keping, André, Philippe, Aso, Yusuke, Byun, Do-Young, Chen, Huei-Ru, Chen, Michael C., Chen, Wen Ping, Ching, Tao-Chung, Cho, Jungyeon, Choi, Minho, Chrysostomou, Antonio, Chung, Eun Jung, Coudé, Simon, Doi, Yasuo, Dowell, C. Darren, Drabek-Maunder, Emily, Duan, Hao-Yuan, Eyres, Stewart P. S., Falle, Sam, Fanciullo, Lapo, Fiege, Jason, Franzmann, Erica, Friberg, Per, Friesen, Rachel K., Fuller, Gary, Gledhill, Tim, Graves, Sarah F., Greaves, Jane S., Griffin, Matt J., Gu, Qilao, Han, Ilseung, Hatchell, Jennifer, Hayashi, Saeko S., Holland, Wayne, Houde, Martin, Inoue, Tsuyoshi, Inutsuka, Shu-ichiro, Iwasaki, Kazunari, Jeong, Il-Gyo, Kanamori, Yoshihiro, Kang, Ji-hyun, Kang, Miju, Kang, Sung-ju, Kataoka, Akimasa, Kawabata, Koji S., Kemper, Francisca, Kim, Jongsoo, Kim, Kyoung Hee, Kim, Mi-Ryang, Kim, Shinyoung, Kirk, Jason M., Kobayashi, Masato I. N., Konyves, Vera, Kwon, Jungmi, Lacaille, Kevin M., Lee, Hyeseung, Lee, Jeong-Eun, Lee, Sang-Sung, Lee, Yong-Hee, Li, Dalei, Li, Di, Li, Hua-bai, Liu, Hong-Li, Liu, Junhao, Lyo, A-Ran, Matsumura, Masafumi, Matthews, Brenda C., Moriarty-Schieven, Gerald H., Nagata, Tetsuya, Nakamura, Fumitaka, Nakanishi, Hiroyuki, Ohashi, Nagayoshi, Park, Geumsook, Parsons, Harriet, Pascale, Enzo, Peretto, Nicolas, Pon, Andy, Pyo, Tae-Soo, Qian, Lei, Rao, Ramprasad, Rawlings, Mark G., Retter, Brendan, Richer, John, Rigby, Andrew, Robitaille, Jean-François, Sadavoy, Sarah, Saito, Hiro, Savini, Giorgio, Scaife, Anna M. M., Seta, Masumichi, Shinnaga, Hiroko, Tang, Ya-Wen, Tomisaka, Kohji, Tsukamoto, Yusuke, van Loo, Sven, Wang, Hongchi, Whitworth, Anthony P., Yen, Hsi-Wei, Yoo, Hyunju, Yuan, Jinghua, Yun, Hyeong-Sik, Zenko, Tetsuya, Zhang, Chuan-Peng, Zhang, Guoyin, Zhang, Ya-Peng, Zhou, Jianjun, Zhu, Wang, Jia-Wei, Lai, Shih-Ping, Eswaraiah, Chakali, Pattle, Kate, Di Francesco, James, Johnstone, Doug, Koch, Patrick M., Liu, Tie, Tamura, Motohide, Furuya, Ray S., Onaka, Takashi, Ward-Thompson, Derek, Soam, Archana, Kim, Kee-Tae, Lee, Chang Won, Lee, Chin-Fei, Mairs, Steve, Arzoumanian, Doris, Kim, Gwanjeong, Hoang, Thiem, Hwang, Jihye, Liu, Sheng-Yuan, Berry, David, Bastien, Pierre, Hasegawa, Tetsuo, Kwon, Woojin, Qiu, Keping, André, Philippe, Aso, Yusuke, Byun, Do-Young, Chen, Huei-Ru, Chen, Michael C., Chen, Wen Ping, Ching, Tao-Chung, Cho, Jungyeon, Choi, Minho, Chrysostomou, Antonio, Chung, Eun Jung, Coudé, Simon, Doi, Yasuo, Dowell, C. Darren, Drabek-Maunder, Emily, Duan, Hao-Yuan, Eyres, Stewart P. S., Falle, Sam, Fanciullo, Lapo, Fiege, Jason, Franzmann, Erica, Friberg, Per, Friesen, Rachel K., Fuller, Gary, Gledhill, Tim, Graves, Sarah F., Greaves, Jane S., Griffin, Matt J., Gu, Qilao, Han, Ilseung, Hatchell, Jennifer, Hayashi, Saeko S., Holland, Wayne, Houde, Martin, Inoue, Tsuyoshi, Inutsuka, Shu-ichiro, Iwasaki, Kazunari, Jeong, Il-Gyo, Kanamori, Yoshihiro, Kang, Ji-hyun, Kang, Miju, Kang, Sung-ju, Kataoka, Akimasa, Kawabata, Koji S., Kemper, Francisca, Kim, Jongsoo, Kim, Kyoung Hee, Kim, Mi-Ryang, Kim, Shinyoung, Kirk, Jason M., Kobayashi, Masato I. N., Konyves, Vera, Kwon, Jungmi, Lacaille, Kevin M., Lee, Hyeseung, Lee, Jeong-Eun, Lee, Sang-Sung, Lee, Yong-Hee, Li, Dalei, Li, Di, Li, Hua-bai, Liu, Hong-Li, Liu, Junhao, Lyo, A-Ran, Matsumura, Masafumi, Matthews, Brenda C., Moriarty-Schieven, Gerald H., Nagata, Tetsuya, Nakamura, Fumitaka, Nakanishi, Hiroyuki, Ohashi, Nagayoshi, Park, Geumsook, Parsons, Harriet, Pascale, Enzo, Peretto, Nicolas, Pon, Andy, Pyo, Tae-Soo, Qian, Lei, Rao, Ramprasad, Rawlings, Mark G., Retter, Brendan, Richer, John, Rigby, Andrew, Robitaille, Jean-François, Sadavoy, Sarah, Saito, Hiro, Savini, Giorgio, Scaife, Anna M. M., Seta, Masumichi, Shinnaga, Hiroko, Tang, Ya-Wen, Tomisaka, Kohji, Tsukamoto, Yusuke, van Loo, Sven, Wang, Hongchi, Whitworth, Anthony P., Yen, Hsi-Wei, Yoo, Hyunju, Yuan, Jinghua, Yun, Hyeong-Sik, Zenko, Tetsuya, Zhang, Chuan-Peng, Zhang, Guoyin, Zhang, Ya-Peng, Zhou, Jianjun, and Zhu
Abstract: We present the 850 $\mu$m polarization observations toward the IC5146 filamentary cloud taken using the Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array 2 (SCUBA-2) and its associated polarimeter (POL-2), mounted on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT), as part of the B-fields In STar forming Regions Observations (BISTRO). This work is aimed at revealing the magnetic field morphology within a core-scale ($\lesssim 1.0$ pc) hub-filament structure (HFS) located at the end of a parsec-scale filament. To investigate whether or not the observed polarization traces the magnetic field in the HFS, we analyze the dependence between the observed polarization fraction and total intensity using a Bayesian approach with the polarization fraction described by the Rice likelihood function, which can correctly describe the probability density function (PDF) of the observed polarization fraction for low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) data. We find a power-law dependence between the polarization fraction and total intensity with an index of 0.56 in $A_V\sim$ 20--300 mag regions, suggesting that the dust grains in these dense regions can still be aligned with magnetic fields in the IC5146 regions. Our polarization maps reveal a curved magnetic field, possibly dragged by the contraction along the parsec-scale filament. We further obtain a magnetic field strength of 0.5$\pm$0.2 mG toward the central hub using the Davis-Chandrasekhar-Fermi method, corresponding to a mass-to-flux criticality of $\sim$ $1.3\pm0.4$ and an Alfv\'{e}nic Mach number of $<$0.6. These results suggest that gravity and magnetic field is currently of comparable importance in the HFS, and turbulence is less important., Comment: 24 pages, 15 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Published: 2018
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25. Exoplanet Spectroscopy and Photometry with the Twinkle Space Telescope

Author: Edwards, Billy, Rice, Malena, Zingales, Tiziano, Tessenyi, Marcell, Waldmann, Ingo, Tinetti, Giovanna, Pascale, Enzo, Savini, Giorgio, Sarkar, Subhajit, Edwards, Billy, Rice, Malena, Zingales, Tiziano, Tessenyi, Marcell, Waldmann, Ingo, Tinetti, Giovanna, Pascale, Enzo, Savini, Giorgio, and Sarkar, Subhajit
Abstract: The Twinkle space telescope has been designed for the characterisation of exoplanets and Solar System objects. Operating in a low Earth, Sun-synchronous orbit, Twinkle is equipped with a 45 cm telescope and visible (0.4 - 1um) and infrared (1.3 - 4.5um) spectrometers which can be operated simultaneously. Twinkle is a general observatory which will provide on-demand observations of a wide variety of targets within wavelength ranges that are currently not accessible using other space telescopes or accessible only to oversubscribed observatories in the short-term future. Here we explore the ability of Twinkle's spectrometers to characterise the currently-known exoplanets. We study the spectral resolution achievable by combining multiple observations for various planetary and stellar types. We also simulate spectral retrievals for some well-known planets (HD 209458 b, GJ 3470 b and 55 Cnc e). From the exoplanets known today, we find that with a single transit or eclipse, Twinkle could probe 89 planets at low spectral resolution (R < 20) as well as 12 planets at higher resolution (R > 20) in channel 1 (1.3 - 4.5um). With 10 observations, the atmospheres of 144 planets could be characterised with R < 20 and 81 at higher resolutions. Upcoming surveys will reveal thousands of new exoplanets, many of which will be located within Twinkle's field of regard. TESS in particular is predicted to discover many targets around bright stars which will be suitable for follow-up observations. We include these anticipated planets and find that the number of planets Twinkle could observe in the near infrared in a single transit or eclipse increases to 558 for R > 20 and 41 at lower resolutions. By stacking 10 transits or eclipses, there are 1185 potential targets for study at R < 20 as well as 388 planets at higher resolutions.
Published: 2018
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26. Submillimeter Polarization Spectrum of the Carina Nebula

Author: Shariff, Jamil A., Ade, Peter A. R., Angilè, Francesco E., Ashton, Peter, Benton, Steven J., Devlin, Mark J., Dober, Bradley, Fissel, Laura M., Fukui, Yasuo, Galitzki, Nicholas, Gandilo, Natalie N., Klein, Jeffrey, Korotkov, Andrei L., Li, Zhi-Yun, Martin, Peter G., Matthews, Tristan G., Moncelsi, Lorenzo, Nakamura, Fumitaka, Netterfield, Calvin B., Novak, Giles, Pascale, Enzo, Poidevin, Frédérick, Santos, Fabio P., Savini, Giorgio, Scott, Douglas, Soler, Juan D., Thomas, Nicholas E., Tucker, Carole E., Tucker, Gregory S., Ward-Thompson, Derek, Shariff, Jamil A., Ade, Peter A. R., Angilè, Francesco E., Ashton, Peter, Benton, Steven J., Devlin, Mark J., Dober, Bradley, Fissel, Laura M., Fukui, Yasuo, Galitzki, Nicholas, Gandilo, Natalie N., Klein, Jeffrey, Korotkov, Andrei L., Li, Zhi-Yun, Martin, Peter G., Matthews, Tristan G., Moncelsi, Lorenzo, Nakamura, Fumitaka, Netterfield, Calvin B., Novak, Giles, Pascale, Enzo, Poidevin, Frédérick, Santos, Fabio P., Savini, Giorgio, Scott, Douglas, Soler, Juan D., Thomas, Nicholas E., Tucker, Carole E., Tucker, Gregory S., and Ward-Thompson, Derek
Abstract: Linear polarization maps of the Carina Nebula were obtained at 250, 350, and 500 $\mu$m during the 2012 flight of the BLASTPol balloon-borne telescope. These measurements are combined with Planck 850 $\mu$m data in order to produce a submillimeter spectrum of the polarization fraction of the dust emission, averaged over the cloud. This spectrum is flat to within $\pm$15% (relative to the 350 $\mu$m polarization fraction). In particular, there is no evidence for a pronounced minimum of the spectrum near 350 $\mu$m, as suggested by previous ground-based measurements of other molecular clouds. This result of a flat polarization spectrum in Carina is consistent with recently-published BLASTPol measurements of the Vela C molecular cloud, and also agrees with a published model for an externally-illuminated, dense molecular cloud by Bethell and collaborators. The shape of the spectrum in Carina does not show any dependence on the radiative environment of the dust, as quantified by the Planck-derived dust temperature or dust optical depth at 353 GHz., Comment: 13 pages, 12 figures, submitted to ApJ
Published: 2018
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27. Stellar pulsation and granulation as noise sources in exoplanet transit spectroscopy in the ARIEL space mission

Author: Sarkar, Subhajit, Argyriou, Ioannis, Vandenbussche, Bart, Papageorgiou, Andreas, Pascale, Enzo, Sarkar, Subhajit, Argyriou, Ioannis, Vandenbussche, Bart, Papageorgiou, Andreas, and Pascale, Enzo
Abstract: Stellar variability from pulsations and granulation presents a source of correlated noise that can impact the accuracy and precision of multi-band photometric transit observations of exoplanets. This can potentially cause biased measurements in the transmission or emission spectrum or underestimation of the final error bars on the spectrum. ARIEL is a future space telescope and instrument designed to perform a transit spectroscopic survey of a large sample of exoplanets. In this paper we perform simulations to assess the impact of stellar variability arising from pulsations and granulation on ARIEL observations of GJ 1214b and HD 209458b. We take into account the correlated nature of stellar noise, quantify it, and compare it to photon noise. In the range 1.95-7.8 \textmu m, stellar pulsation and granulation noise has insignificant impact compared to photon noise for both targets. In the visual range the contribution increases significantly but remains small in absolute terms and will have minimal impact on the transmission spectra of the targets studied. The impact of pulsation and granulation will be greatest for planets with low scale height atmospheres and long transit times around bright stars.
Published: 2018
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28. BFORE: A CMB Balloon Payload to Measure Reionization, Neutrino Mass, and Cosmic Inflation

Author: Bryan, Sean, Ade, Peter, Bond, J. Richard, Boulanger, Francois, Devlin, Mark, Doyle, Simon, Filippini, Jeffrey, Fissell, Laura, Groppi, Christopher, Holder, Gilbert, Hubmayr, Johannes, Mauskopf, Philip, McMahon, Jeff, Nagy, Johanna, Netterfield, C. Barth, Niemack, Michael, Novak, Giles, Pascale, Enzo, Pisano, Giampaolo, Ruhl, John, Scott, Douglas, Soler, Juan, Tucker, Carole, Vieira, Joaquin, Bryan, Sean, Ade, Peter, Bond, J. Richard, Boulanger, Francois, Devlin, Mark, Doyle, Simon, Filippini, Jeffrey, Fissell, Laura, Groppi, Christopher, Holder, Gilbert, Hubmayr, Johannes, Mauskopf, Philip, McMahon, Jeff, Nagy, Johanna, Netterfield, C. Barth, Niemack, Michael, Novak, Giles, Pascale, Enzo, Pisano, Giampaolo, Ruhl, John, Scott, Douglas, Soler, Juan, Tucker, Carole, and Vieira, Joaquin
Abstract: BFORE is a high-altitude ultra-long-duration balloon mission to map the cosmic microwave background (CMB). During a 28-day mid-latitude flight launched from Wanaka, New Zealand, the instrument will map half the sky to improve measurements of the optical depth to reionization tau. This will break parameter degeneracies needed to detect neutrino mass. BFORE will also hunt for the gravitational wave B-mode signal, and map Galactic dust foregrounds. The mission will be the first near-space use of TES/mSQUID multichroic detectors (150/217 GHz and 280/353 GHz bands) with low-power readout electronics., Comment: 11 pages, 2 figures, Submitted to SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation
Published: 2018
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29. Preflight Characterization of the BLAST-TNG Receiver and Detector Arrays

Author: Lourie, Nathan P., Ade, Peter A. R., Angile, Francisco E., Ashton, Peter C., Austermann, Jason E., Devlin, Mark J., Dober, Bradley, Galitzki, Nicholas, Gao, Jiansong, Gordon, Sam, Groppi, Christopher E., Klein, Jeffrey, Hilton, Gene C., Hubmayr, Johannes, Li, Dale, Lowe, Ian, Mani, Hamdi, Mauskopf, Philip, McKenney, Christopher M., Nati, Federico, Novak, Giles, Pascale, Enzo, Pisano, Giampaolo, Sinclair, Adrian, Soler, Juan D., Tucker, Carole, Ullom, Joel, Vissers, Michael, Williams, Paul A., Lourie, Nathan P., Ade, Peter A. R., Angile, Francisco E., Ashton, Peter C., Austermann, Jason E., Devlin, Mark J., Dober, Bradley, Galitzki, Nicholas, Gao, Jiansong, Gordon, Sam, Groppi, Christopher E., Klein, Jeffrey, Hilton, Gene C., Hubmayr, Johannes, Li, Dale, Lowe, Ian, Mani, Hamdi, Mauskopf, Philip, McKenney, Christopher M., Nati, Federico, Novak, Giles, Pascale, Enzo, Pisano, Giampaolo, Sinclair, Adrian, Soler, Juan D., Tucker, Carole, Ullom, Joel, Vissers, Michael, and Williams, Paul A.
Abstract: The Next Generation Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST-TNG) is a submillimeter mapping experiment planned for a 28 day long-duration balloon (LDB) flight from McMurdo Station, Antarctica during the 2018-2019 season. BLAST-TNG will detect submillimeter polarized interstellar dust emission, tracing magnetic fields in galactic molecular clouds. BLAST-TNG will be the first polarimeter with the sensitivity and resolution to probe the $\sim$0.1 parsec-scale features that are critical to understanding the origin of structures in the interstellar medium. BLAST-TNG features three detector arrays operating at wavelengths of 250, 350, and 500 $\mu$m (1200, 857, and 600 GHz) comprised of 918, 469, and 272 dual-polarization pixels, respectively. Each pixel is made up of two crossed microwave kinetic inductance detectors (MKIDs). These arrays are cooled to 275 mK in a cryogenic receiver. Each MKID has a different resonant frequency, allowing hundreds of resonators to be read out on a single transmission line. This inherent ability to be frequency-domain multiplexed simplifies the cryogenic readout hardware, but requires careful optical testing to map out the physical location of each resonator on the focal plane. Receiver-level optical testing was carried out using both a cryogenic source mounted to a movable xy-stage with a shutter, and a beam-filling, heated blackbody source able to provide a 10-50 $^\circ$C temperature chop. The focal plane array noise properties, responsivity, polarization efficiency, instrumental polarization were measured. We present the preflight characterization of the BLAST-TNG cryogenic system and array-level optical testing of the MKID detector arrays in the flight receiver., Comment: 15 pages, 7 figures, SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation Conference
Published: 2018
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30. MUSCAT: The Mexico-UK Sub-Millimetre Camera for AsTronomy

Author: Brien, Thomas L. R., Ade, Peter A. R., Barry, Peter S., Castillo-Domìnguez, Edgar, Ferrusca, Daniel, Gascard, Thomas, Gómez, Victor, Hargrave, Peter C., Hornsby, Amber L., Hughes, David, Pascale, Enzo, Parrianen, Josie D. A., Perez, Abel, Rowe, Sam, Tucker, Carole, González, Salvador Ventura, Doyle, Simon M., Brien, Thomas L. R., Ade, Peter A. R., Barry, Peter S., Castillo-Domìnguez, Edgar, Ferrusca, Daniel, Gascard, Thomas, Gómez, Victor, Hargrave, Peter C., Hornsby, Amber L., Hughes, David, Pascale, Enzo, Parrianen, Josie D. A., Perez, Abel, Rowe, Sam, Tucker, Carole, González, Salvador Ventura, and Doyle, Simon M.
Abstract: The Mexico-UK Sub-millimetre Camera for AsTronomy (MUSCAT) is a large-format, millimetre-wave camera consisting of 1,500 background-limited lumped-element kinetic inductance detectors (LEKIDs) scheduled for deployment on the Large Millimeter Telescope (Volc\'an Sierra Negra, Mexico) in 2018. MUSCAT is designed for observing at 1.1 mm and will utilise the full 40' field of view of the LMTs upgraded 50-m primary mirror. In its primary role, MUSCAT is designed for high-resolution follow-up surveys of both galactic and extra-galactic sub-mm sources identified by Herschel. MUSCAT is also designed to be a technology demonstrator that will provide the first on-sky demonstrations of novel design concepts such as horn-coupled LEKID arrays and closed continuous cycle miniature dilution refrigeration. Here we describe some of the key design elements of the MUSCAT instrument such as the novel use of continuous sorption refrigerators and a miniature dilutor for continuous 100-mK cooling of the focal plane, broadband optical coupling to Aluminium LEKID arrays using waveguide chokes and anti-reflection coating materials as well as with the general mechanical and optical design of MUSCAT. We explain how MUSCAT is designed to be simple to upgrade and the possibilities for changing the focal plane unit that allows MUSCAT to act as a demonstrator for other novel technologies such as multi-chroic polarisation sensitive pixels and on-chip spectrometry in the future. Finally, we will report on the current status of MUSCAT's commissioning., Comment: Presented at SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2018, Austin, Texas, United States
Published: 2018
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31. Mexico-UK Sub-millimeter Camera for AsTronomy

Author: Castillo-Dominguez, Edgar, Ade, Peter, Barry, Peter, Brien, Thom, Doyle, Simon, Ferrusca, Daniel, Gomez-Rivera, Victor, Hargrave, Peter, Hornsby, Amber, Hughes, David, Mauskopf, Phillip, Moseley, Paul, Pascale, Enzo, Perez-Fajardo, Abel, Pisano, Giampaolo, Rowe, Samuel, Tucker, Carole, Velazquez, Miguel, Castillo-Dominguez, Edgar, Ade, Peter, Barry, Peter, Brien, Thom, Doyle, Simon, Ferrusca, Daniel, Gomez-Rivera, Victor, Hargrave, Peter, Hornsby, Amber, Hughes, David, Mauskopf, Phillip, Moseley, Paul, Pascale, Enzo, Perez-Fajardo, Abel, Pisano, Giampaolo, Rowe, Samuel, Tucker, Carole, and Velazquez, Miguel
Abstract: MUSCAT is a large format mm-wave camera scheduled for installation on the Large Millimeter Telescope Alfonso Serrano (LMT) in 2018. The MUSCAT focal plane is based on an array of horn coupled lumped-element kinetic inductance detectors optimised for coupling to the 1.1mm atmospheric window. The detectors are fed with fully baffled reflective optics to minimize stray-light contamination. This combination will enable background-limited performance at 1.1 mm across the full 4 arcminute field-of-view of the LMT. The easily accessible focal plane will be cooled to 100 mK with a new closed cycle miniature dilution refrigerator that permits fully continuous operation. The MUSCAT instrument will demonstrate the science capabilities of the LMT through two relatively short science programmes to provide high resolution follow-up surveys of Galactic and extra-galactic sources previously observed with the Herschel space observatory, after the initial observing campaigns. In this paper, we will provide an overview of the overall instrument design as well as an update on progress and scheduled installation on the LMT., Comment: Accepted for publication in the Journal of Low Temperature Detectors
Published: 2018
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32. Modelling the Performance of Single-Photon Counting Kinetic Inductance Detectors

Author: Parrianen, Josie Dzifa Akua, Papageorgiou, Andreas, Doyle, Simon, Pascale, Enzo, Parrianen, Josie Dzifa Akua, Papageorgiou, Andreas, Doyle, Simon, and Pascale, Enzo
Abstract: Using conventional superconductor theory we discuss and validate a model that describes the energy-resolving performance of an aluminium LEKID to single-photon absorption events. While aluminium is not the optimum material for single-photon counting applications, this material is well understood and is used to understand the underlying device physics of these detectors. We also discuss data analysis techniques used to extract single-photon detections from noisy data., Comment: 17th International Workshop in Low Temperature Detectors Conference Proceedings
Published: 2018

33. Relative Alignment Between the Magnetic Field and Molecular Gas Structure in the Vela C Giant Molecular Cloud using Low and High Density Tracers

Author: Fissel, Laura M., Ade, Peter A. R., Angilè, Francesco E., Ashton, Peter, Benton, Steven J., Chen, Che-Yu, Cunningham, Maria, Devlin, Mark J., Dober, Bradley, Friesen, Rachel, Fukui, Yasuo, Galitzki, Nicholas, Gandilo, Natalie N., Goodman, Alyssa, Green, Claire-Elise, Jones, Paul, Klein, Jeffrey, King, Patrick, Korotkov, Andrei L., Li, Zhi-Yun, Lowe, Vicki, Martin, Peter G., Matthews, Tristan G., Moncelsi, Lorenzo, Nakamura, Fumitaka, Netterfield, Calvin B., Newmark, Amanda, Novak, Giles, Pascale, Enzo, Poidevin, Frédérick, Santos, Fabio P., Savini, Giorgio, Scott, Douglas, Shariff, Jamil A., Soler, Juan D., Thomas, Nicholas E., Tucker, Carole E., Tucker, Gregory S., Ward-Thompson, Derek, Zucker, Catherine, Fissel, Laura M., Ade, Peter A. R., Angilè, Francesco E., Ashton, Peter, Benton, Steven J., Chen, Che-Yu, Cunningham, Maria, Devlin, Mark J., Dober, Bradley, Friesen, Rachel, Fukui, Yasuo, Galitzki, Nicholas, Gandilo, Natalie N., Goodman, Alyssa, Green, Claire-Elise, Jones, Paul, Klein, Jeffrey, King, Patrick, Korotkov, Andrei L., Li, Zhi-Yun, Lowe, Vicki, Martin, Peter G., Matthews, Tristan G., Moncelsi, Lorenzo, Nakamura, Fumitaka, Netterfield, Calvin B., Newmark, Amanda, Novak, Giles, Pascale, Enzo, Poidevin, Frédérick, Santos, Fabio P., Savini, Giorgio, Scott, Douglas, Shariff, Jamil A., Soler, Juan D., Thomas, Nicholas E., Tucker, Carole E., Tucker, Gregory S., Ward-Thompson, Derek, and Zucker, Catherine
Abstract: We compare the magnetic field orientation for the young giant molecular cloud Vela C inferred from 500-$\mu$m polarization maps made with the BLASTPol balloon-borne polarimeter to the orientation of structures in the integrated line emission maps from Mopra observations. Averaging over the entire cloud we find that elongated structures in integrated line-intensity, or zeroth-moment maps, for low density tracers such as $^{12}$CO and $^{13}$CO $J$ $\rightarrow$ 1 - 0 are statistically more likely to align parallel to the magnetic field, while intermediate or high density tracers show (on average) a tendency for alignment perpendicular to the magnetic field. This observation agrees with previous studies of the change in relative orientation with column density in Vela C, and supports a model where the magnetic field is strong enough to have influenced the formation of dense gas structures within Vela C. The transition from parallel to no preferred/perpendicular orientation appears to happen between the densities traced by $^{13}$CO and by C$^{18}$O $J$ $\rightarrow$ 1 - 0. Using RADEX radiative transfer models to estimate the characteristic number density traced by each molecular line we find that the transition occurs at a molecular hydrogen number density of approximately $10^3$ cm$^{-3}$. We also see that the Centre-Ridge (the highest column density and most active star-forming region within Vela C) appears to have a transition at a lower number density, suggesting that this may depend on the evolutionary state of the cloud., Comment: 27 pages, 15 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Published: 2018
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34. JCMT BISTRO survey: Magnetic Fields within the Hub-Filament Structure in IC 5146

Author: Wang, Jia-Wei, Lai, Shih-Ping, Eswaraiah, Chakali, Pattle, Kate, Di Francesco, James, Johnstone, Doug, Koch, Patrick M., Liu, Tie, Tamura, Motohide, Furuya, Ray S., Onaka, Takashi, Ward-Thompson, Derek, Soam, Archana, Kim, Kee-Tae, Lee, Chang Won, Lee, Chin-Fei, Mairs, Steve, Arzoumanian, Doris, Kim, Gwanjeong, Hoang, Thiem, Hwang, Jihye, Liu, Sheng-Yuan, Berry, David, Bastien, Pierre, Hasegawa, Tetsuo, Kwon, Woojin, Qiu, Keping, André, Philippe, Aso, Yusuke, Byun, Do-Young, Chen, Huei-Ru, Chen, Michael C., Chen, Wen Ping, Ching, Tao-Chung, Cho, Jungyeon, Choi, Minho, Chrysostomou, Antonio, Chung, Eun Jung, Coudé, Simon, Doi, Yasuo, Dowell, C. Darren, Drabek-Maunder, Emily, Duan, Hao-Yuan, Eyres, Stewart P. S., Falle, Sam, Fanciullo, Lapo, Fiege, Jason, Franzmann, Erica, Friberg, Per, Friesen, Rachel K., Fuller, Gary, Gledhill, Tim, Graves, Sarah F., Greaves, Jane S., Griffin, Matt J., Gu, Qilao, Han, Ilseung, Hatchell, Jennifer, Hayashi, Saeko S., Holland, Wayne, Houde, Martin, Inoue, Tsuyoshi, Inutsuka, Shu-ichiro, Iwasaki, Kazunari, Jeong, Il-Gyo, Kanamori, Yoshihiro, Kang, Ji-hyun, Kang, Miju, Kang, Sung-ju, Kataoka, Akimasa, Kawabata, Koji S., Kemper, Francisca, Kim, Jongsoo, Kim, Kyoung Hee, Kim, Mi-Ryang, Kim, Shinyoung, Kirk, Jason M., Kobayashi, Masato I. N., Konyves, Vera, Kwon, Jungmi, Lacaille, Kevin M., Lee, Hyeseung, Lee, Jeong-Eun, Lee, Sang-Sung, Lee, Yong-Hee, Li, Dalei, Li, Di, Li, Hua-bai, Liu, Hong-Li, Liu, Junhao, Lyo, A-Ran, Matsumura, Masafumi, Matthews, Brenda C., Moriarty-Schieven, Gerald H., Nagata, Tetsuya, Nakamura, Fumitaka, Nakanishi, Hiroyuki, Ohashi, Nagayoshi, Park, Geumsook, Parsons, Harriet, Pascale, Enzo, Peretto, Nicolas, Pon, Andy, Pyo, Tae-Soo, Qian, Lei, Rao, Ramprasad, Rawlings, Mark G., Retter, Brendan, Richer, John, Rigby, Andrew, Robitaille, Jean-François, Sadavoy, Sarah, Saito, Hiro, Savini, Giorgio, Scaife, Anna M. M., Seta, Masumichi, Shinnaga, Hiroko, Tang, Ya-Wen, Tomisaka, Kohji, Tsukamoto, Yusuke, van Loo, Sven, Wang, Hongchi, Whitworth, Anthony P., Yen, Hsi-Wei, Yoo, Hyunju, Yuan, Jinghua, Yun, Hyeong-Sik, Zenko, Tetsuya, Zhang, Chuan-Peng, Zhang, Guoyin, Zhang, Ya-Peng, Zhou, Jianjun, Zhu, Wang, Jia-Wei, Lai, Shih-Ping, Eswaraiah, Chakali, Pattle, Kate, Di Francesco, James, Johnstone, Doug, Koch, Patrick M., Liu, Tie, Tamura, Motohide, Furuya, Ray S., Onaka, Takashi, Ward-Thompson, Derek, Soam, Archana, Kim, Kee-Tae, Lee, Chang Won, Lee, Chin-Fei, Mairs, Steve, Arzoumanian, Doris, Kim, Gwanjeong, Hoang, Thiem, Hwang, Jihye, Liu, Sheng-Yuan, Berry, David, Bastien, Pierre, Hasegawa, Tetsuo, Kwon, Woojin, Qiu, Keping, André, Philippe, Aso, Yusuke, Byun, Do-Young, Chen, Huei-Ru, Chen, Michael C., Chen, Wen Ping, Ching, Tao-Chung, Cho, Jungyeon, Choi, Minho, Chrysostomou, Antonio, Chung, Eun Jung, Coudé, Simon, Doi, Yasuo, Dowell, C. Darren, Drabek-Maunder, Emily, Duan, Hao-Yuan, Eyres, Stewart P. S., Falle, Sam, Fanciullo, Lapo, Fiege, Jason, Franzmann, Erica, Friberg, Per, Friesen, Rachel K., Fuller, Gary, Gledhill, Tim, Graves, Sarah F., Greaves, Jane S., Griffin, Matt J., Gu, Qilao, Han, Ilseung, Hatchell, Jennifer, Hayashi, Saeko S., Holland, Wayne, Houde, Martin, Inoue, Tsuyoshi, Inutsuka, Shu-ichiro, Iwasaki, Kazunari, Jeong, Il-Gyo, Kanamori, Yoshihiro, Kang, Ji-hyun, Kang, Miju, Kang, Sung-ju, Kataoka, Akimasa, Kawabata, Koji S., Kemper, Francisca, Kim, Jongsoo, Kim, Kyoung Hee, Kim, Mi-Ryang, Kim, Shinyoung, Kirk, Jason M., Kobayashi, Masato I. N., Konyves, Vera, Kwon, Jungmi, Lacaille, Kevin M., Lee, Hyeseung, Lee, Jeong-Eun, Lee, Sang-Sung, Lee, Yong-Hee, Li, Dalei, Li, Di, Li, Hua-bai, Liu, Hong-Li, Liu, Junhao, Lyo, A-Ran, Matsumura, Masafumi, Matthews, Brenda C., Moriarty-Schieven, Gerald H., Nagata, Tetsuya, Nakamura, Fumitaka, Nakanishi, Hiroyuki, Ohashi, Nagayoshi, Park, Geumsook, Parsons, Harriet, Pascale, Enzo, Peretto, Nicolas, Pon, Andy, Pyo, Tae-Soo, Qian, Lei, Rao, Ramprasad, Rawlings, Mark G., Retter, Brendan, Richer, John, Rigby, Andrew, Robitaille, Jean-François, Sadavoy, Sarah, Saito, Hiro, Savini, Giorgio, Scaife, Anna M. M., Seta, Masumichi, Shinnaga, Hiroko, Tang, Ya-Wen, Tomisaka, Kohji, Tsukamoto, Yusuke, van Loo, Sven, Wang, Hongchi, Whitworth, Anthony P., Yen, Hsi-Wei, Yoo, Hyunju, Yuan, Jinghua, Yun, Hyeong-Sik, Zenko, Tetsuya, Zhang, Chuan-Peng, Zhang, Guoyin, Zhang, Ya-Peng, Zhou, Jianjun, and Zhu
Abstract: We present the 850 $\mu$m polarization observations toward the IC5146 filamentary cloud taken using the Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array 2 (SCUBA-2) and its associated polarimeter (POL-2), mounted on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT), as part of the B-fields In STar forming Regions Observations (BISTRO). This work is aimed at revealing the magnetic field morphology within a core-scale ($\lesssim 1.0$ pc) hub-filament structure (HFS) located at the end of a parsec-scale filament. To investigate whether or not the observed polarization traces the magnetic field in the HFS, we analyze the dependence between the observed polarization fraction and total intensity using a Bayesian approach with the polarization fraction described by the Rice likelihood function, which can correctly describe the probability density function (PDF) of the observed polarization fraction for low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) data. We find a power-law dependence between the polarization fraction and total intensity with an index of 0.56 in $A_V\sim$ 20--300 mag regions, suggesting that the dust grains in these dense regions can still be aligned with magnetic fields in the IC5146 regions. Our polarization maps reveal a curved magnetic field, possibly dragged by the contraction along the parsec-scale filament. We further obtain a magnetic field strength of 0.5$\pm$0.2 mG toward the central hub using the Davis-Chandrasekhar-Fermi method, corresponding to a mass-to-flux criticality of $\sim$ $1.3\pm0.4$ and an Alfv\'{e}nic Mach number of $<$0.6. These results suggest that gravity and magnetic field is currently of comparable importance in the HFS, and turbulence is less important., Comment: 24 pages, 15 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Published: 2018
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35. Exoplanet Spectroscopy and Photometry with the Twinkle Space Telescope

Author: Edwards, Billy, Rice, Malena, Zingales, Tiziano, Tessenyi, Marcell, Waldmann, Ingo, Tinetti, Giovanna, Pascale, Enzo, Savini, Giorgio, Sarkar, Subhajit, Edwards, Billy, Rice, Malena, Zingales, Tiziano, Tessenyi, Marcell, Waldmann, Ingo, Tinetti, Giovanna, Pascale, Enzo, Savini, Giorgio, and Sarkar, Subhajit
Abstract: The Twinkle space telescope has been designed for the characterisation of exoplanets and Solar System objects. Operating in a low Earth, Sun-synchronous orbit, Twinkle is equipped with a 45 cm telescope and visible (0.4 - 1um) and infrared (1.3 - 4.5um) spectrometers which can be operated simultaneously. Twinkle is a general observatory which will provide on-demand observations of a wide variety of targets within wavelength ranges that are currently not accessible using other space telescopes or accessible only to oversubscribed observatories in the short-term future. Here we explore the ability of Twinkle's spectrometers to characterise the currently-known exoplanets. We study the spectral resolution achievable by combining multiple observations for various planetary and stellar types. We also simulate spectral retrievals for some well-known planets (HD 209458 b, GJ 3470 b and 55 Cnc e). From the exoplanets known today, we find that with a single transit or eclipse, Twinkle could probe 89 planets at low spectral resolution (R < 20) as well as 12 planets at higher resolution (R > 20) in channel 1 (1.3 - 4.5um). With 10 observations, the atmospheres of 144 planets could be characterised with R < 20 and 81 at higher resolutions. Upcoming surveys will reveal thousands of new exoplanets, many of which will be located within Twinkle's field of regard. TESS in particular is predicted to discover many targets around bright stars which will be suitable for follow-up observations. We include these anticipated planets and find that the number of planets Twinkle could observe in the near infrared in a single transit or eclipse increases to 558 for R > 20 and 41 at lower resolutions. By stacking 10 transits or eclipses, there are 1185 potential targets for study at R < 20 as well as 388 planets at higher resolutions.
Published: 2018
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36. Stellar pulsation and granulation as noise sources in exoplanet transit spectroscopy in the ARIEL space mission

Author: Sarkar, Subhajit, Argyriou, Ioannis, Vandenbussche, Bart, Papageorgiou, Andreas, Pascale, Enzo, Sarkar, Subhajit, Argyriou, Ioannis, Vandenbussche, Bart, Papageorgiou, Andreas, and Pascale, Enzo
Abstract: Stellar variability from pulsations and granulation presents a source of correlated noise that can impact the accuracy and precision of multi-band photometric transit observations of exoplanets. This can potentially cause biased measurements in the transmission or emission spectrum or underestimation of the final error bars on the spectrum. ARIEL is a future space telescope and instrument designed to perform a transit spectroscopic survey of a large sample of exoplanets. In this paper we perform simulations to assess the impact of stellar variability arising from pulsations and granulation on ARIEL observations of GJ 1214b and HD 209458b. We take into account the correlated nature of stellar noise, quantify it, and compare it to photon noise. In the range 1.95-7.8 \textmu m, stellar pulsation and granulation noise has insignificant impact compared to photon noise for both targets. In the visual range the contribution increases significantly but remains small in absolute terms and will have minimal impact on the transmission spectra of the targets studied. The impact of pulsation and granulation will be greatest for planets with low scale height atmospheres and long transit times around bright stars.
Published: 2018
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37. Submillimeter Polarization Spectrum of the Carina Nebula

Author: Shariff, Jamil A., Ade, Peter A. R., Angilè, Francesco E., Ashton, Peter, Benton, Steven J., Devlin, Mark J., Dober, Bradley, Fissel, Laura M., Fukui, Yasuo, Galitzki, Nicholas, Gandilo, Natalie N., Klein, Jeffrey, Korotkov, Andrei L., Li, Zhi-Yun, Martin, Peter G., Matthews, Tristan G., Moncelsi, Lorenzo, Nakamura, Fumitaka, Netterfield, Calvin B., Novak, Giles, Pascale, Enzo, Poidevin, Frédérick, Santos, Fabio P., Savini, Giorgio, Scott, Douglas, Soler, Juan D., Thomas, Nicholas E., Tucker, Carole E., Tucker, Gregory S., Ward-Thompson, Derek, Shariff, Jamil A., Ade, Peter A. R., Angilè, Francesco E., Ashton, Peter, Benton, Steven J., Devlin, Mark J., Dober, Bradley, Fissel, Laura M., Fukui, Yasuo, Galitzki, Nicholas, Gandilo, Natalie N., Klein, Jeffrey, Korotkov, Andrei L., Li, Zhi-Yun, Martin, Peter G., Matthews, Tristan G., Moncelsi, Lorenzo, Nakamura, Fumitaka, Netterfield, Calvin B., Novak, Giles, Pascale, Enzo, Poidevin, Frédérick, Santos, Fabio P., Savini, Giorgio, Scott, Douglas, Soler, Juan D., Thomas, Nicholas E., Tucker, Carole E., Tucker, Gregory S., and Ward-Thompson, Derek
Abstract: Linear polarization maps of the Carina Nebula were obtained at 250, 350, and 500 $\mu$m during the 2012 flight of the BLASTPol balloon-borne telescope. These measurements are combined with Planck 850 $\mu$m data in order to produce a submillimeter spectrum of the polarization fraction of the dust emission, averaged over the cloud. This spectrum is flat to within $\pm$15% (relative to the 350 $\mu$m polarization fraction). In particular, there is no evidence for a pronounced minimum of the spectrum near 350 $\mu$m, as suggested by previous ground-based measurements of other molecular clouds. This result of a flat polarization spectrum in Carina is consistent with recently-published BLASTPol measurements of the Vela C molecular cloud, and also agrees with a published model for an externally-illuminated, dense molecular cloud by Bethell and collaborators. The shape of the spectrum in Carina does not show any dependence on the radiative environment of the dust, as quantified by the Planck-derived dust temperature or dust optical depth at 353 GHz., Comment: 13 pages, 12 figures, submitted to ApJ
Published: 2018
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38. Preflight Characterization of the BLAST-TNG Receiver and Detector Arrays

Author: Lourie, Nathan P., Ade, Peter A. R., Angile, Francisco E., Ashton, Peter C., Austermann, Jason E., Devlin, Mark J., Dober, Bradley, Galitzki, Nicholas, Gao, Jiansong, Gordon, Sam, Groppi, Christopher E., Klein, Jeffrey, Hilton, Gene C., Hubmayr, Johannes, Li, Dale, Lowe, Ian, Mani, Hamdi, Mauskopf, Philip, McKenney, Christopher M., Nati, Federico, Novak, Giles, Pascale, Enzo, Pisano, Giampaolo, Sinclair, Adrian, Soler, Juan D., Tucker, Carole, Ullom, Joel, Vissers, Michael, Williams, Paul A., Lourie, Nathan P., Ade, Peter A. R., Angile, Francisco E., Ashton, Peter C., Austermann, Jason E., Devlin, Mark J., Dober, Bradley, Galitzki, Nicholas, Gao, Jiansong, Gordon, Sam, Groppi, Christopher E., Klein, Jeffrey, Hilton, Gene C., Hubmayr, Johannes, Li, Dale, Lowe, Ian, Mani, Hamdi, Mauskopf, Philip, McKenney, Christopher M., Nati, Federico, Novak, Giles, Pascale, Enzo, Pisano, Giampaolo, Sinclair, Adrian, Soler, Juan D., Tucker, Carole, Ullom, Joel, Vissers, Michael, and Williams, Paul A.
Abstract: The Next Generation Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST-TNG) is a submillimeter mapping experiment planned for a 28 day long-duration balloon (LDB) flight from McMurdo Station, Antarctica during the 2018-2019 season. BLAST-TNG will detect submillimeter polarized interstellar dust emission, tracing magnetic fields in galactic molecular clouds. BLAST-TNG will be the first polarimeter with the sensitivity and resolution to probe the $\sim$0.1 parsec-scale features that are critical to understanding the origin of structures in the interstellar medium. BLAST-TNG features three detector arrays operating at wavelengths of 250, 350, and 500 $\mu$m (1200, 857, and 600 GHz) comprised of 918, 469, and 272 dual-polarization pixels, respectively. Each pixel is made up of two crossed microwave kinetic inductance detectors (MKIDs). These arrays are cooled to 275 mK in a cryogenic receiver. Each MKID has a different resonant frequency, allowing hundreds of resonators to be read out on a single transmission line. This inherent ability to be frequency-domain multiplexed simplifies the cryogenic readout hardware, but requires careful optical testing to map out the physical location of each resonator on the focal plane. Receiver-level optical testing was carried out using both a cryogenic source mounted to a movable xy-stage with a shutter, and a beam-filling, heated blackbody source able to provide a 10-50 $^\circ$C temperature chop. The focal plane array noise properties, responsivity, polarization efficiency, instrumental polarization were measured. We present the preflight characterization of the BLAST-TNG cryogenic system and array-level optical testing of the MKID detector arrays in the flight receiver., Comment: 15 pages, 7 figures, SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation Conference
Published: 2018
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39. MUSCAT: The Mexico-UK Sub-Millimetre Camera for AsTronomy

Author: Brien, Thomas L. R., Ade, Peter A. R., Barry, Peter S., Castillo-Domìnguez, Edgar, Ferrusca, Daniel, Gascard, Thomas, Gómez, Victor, Hargrave, Peter C., Hornsby, Amber L., Hughes, David, Pascale, Enzo, Parrianen, Josie D. A., Perez, Abel, Rowe, Sam, Tucker, Carole, González, Salvador Ventura, Doyle, Simon M., Brien, Thomas L. R., Ade, Peter A. R., Barry, Peter S., Castillo-Domìnguez, Edgar, Ferrusca, Daniel, Gascard, Thomas, Gómez, Victor, Hargrave, Peter C., Hornsby, Amber L., Hughes, David, Pascale, Enzo, Parrianen, Josie D. A., Perez, Abel, Rowe, Sam, Tucker, Carole, González, Salvador Ventura, and Doyle, Simon M.
Abstract: The Mexico-UK Sub-millimetre Camera for AsTronomy (MUSCAT) is a large-format, millimetre-wave camera consisting of 1,500 background-limited lumped-element kinetic inductance detectors (LEKIDs) scheduled for deployment on the Large Millimeter Telescope (Volc\'an Sierra Negra, Mexico) in 2018. MUSCAT is designed for observing at 1.1 mm and will utilise the full 40' field of view of the LMTs upgraded 50-m primary mirror. In its primary role, MUSCAT is designed for high-resolution follow-up surveys of both galactic and extra-galactic sub-mm sources identified by Herschel. MUSCAT is also designed to be a technology demonstrator that will provide the first on-sky demonstrations of novel design concepts such as horn-coupled LEKID arrays and closed continuous cycle miniature dilution refrigeration. Here we describe some of the key design elements of the MUSCAT instrument such as the novel use of continuous sorption refrigerators and a miniature dilutor for continuous 100-mK cooling of the focal plane, broadband optical coupling to Aluminium LEKID arrays using waveguide chokes and anti-reflection coating materials as well as with the general mechanical and optical design of MUSCAT. We explain how MUSCAT is designed to be simple to upgrade and the possibilities for changing the focal plane unit that allows MUSCAT to act as a demonstrator for other novel technologies such as multi-chroic polarisation sensitive pixels and on-chip spectrometry in the future. Finally, we will report on the current status of MUSCAT's commissioning., Comment: Presented at SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2018, Austin, Texas, United States
Published: 2018
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40. BFORE: A CMB Balloon Payload to Measure Reionization, Neutrino Mass, and Cosmic Inflation

Author: Bryan, Sean, Ade, Peter, Bond, J. Richard, Boulanger, Francois, Devlin, Mark, Doyle, Simon, Filippini, Jeffrey, Fissell, Laura, Groppi, Christopher, Holder, Gilbert, Hubmayr, Johannes, Mauskopf, Philip, McMahon, Jeff, Nagy, Johanna, Netterfield, C. Barth, Niemack, Michael, Novak, Giles, Pascale, Enzo, Pisano, Giampaolo, Ruhl, John, Scott, Douglas, Soler, Juan, Tucker, Carole, Vieira, Joaquin, Bryan, Sean, Ade, Peter, Bond, J. Richard, Boulanger, Francois, Devlin, Mark, Doyle, Simon, Filippini, Jeffrey, Fissell, Laura, Groppi, Christopher, Holder, Gilbert, Hubmayr, Johannes, Mauskopf, Philip, McMahon, Jeff, Nagy, Johanna, Netterfield, C. Barth, Niemack, Michael, Novak, Giles, Pascale, Enzo, Pisano, Giampaolo, Ruhl, John, Scott, Douglas, Soler, Juan, Tucker, Carole, and Vieira, Joaquin
Abstract: BFORE is a high-altitude ultra-long-duration balloon mission to map the cosmic microwave background (CMB). During a 28-day mid-latitude flight launched from Wanaka, New Zealand, the instrument will map half the sky to improve measurements of the optical depth to reionization tau. This will break parameter degeneracies needed to detect neutrino mass. BFORE will also hunt for the gravitational wave B-mode signal, and map Galactic dust foregrounds. The mission will be the first near-space use of TES/mSQUID multichroic detectors (150/217 GHz and 280/353 GHz bands) with low-power readout electronics., Comment: 11 pages, 2 figures, Submitted to SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation
Published: 2018
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41. Mexico-UK Sub-millimeter Camera for AsTronomy

Author: Castillo-Dominguez, Edgar, Ade, Peter, Barry, Peter, Brien, Thom, Doyle, Simon, Ferrusca, Daniel, Gomez-Rivera, Victor, Hargrave, Peter, Hornsby, Amber, Hughes, David, Mauskopf, Phillip, Moseley, Paul, Pascale, Enzo, Perez-Fajardo, Abel, Pisano, Giampaolo, Rowe, Samuel, Tucker, Carole, Velazquez, Miguel, Castillo-Dominguez, Edgar, Ade, Peter, Barry, Peter, Brien, Thom, Doyle, Simon, Ferrusca, Daniel, Gomez-Rivera, Victor, Hargrave, Peter, Hornsby, Amber, Hughes, David, Mauskopf, Phillip, Moseley, Paul, Pascale, Enzo, Perez-Fajardo, Abel, Pisano, Giampaolo, Rowe, Samuel, Tucker, Carole, and Velazquez, Miguel
Abstract: MUSCAT is a large format mm-wave camera scheduled for installation on the Large Millimeter Telescope Alfonso Serrano (LMT) in 2018. The MUSCAT focal plane is based on an array of horn coupled lumped-element kinetic inductance detectors optimised for coupling to the 1.1mm atmospheric window. The detectors are fed with fully baffled reflective optics to minimize stray-light contamination. This combination will enable background-limited performance at 1.1 mm across the full 4 arcminute field-of-view of the LMT. The easily accessible focal plane will be cooled to 100 mK with a new closed cycle miniature dilution refrigerator that permits fully continuous operation. The MUSCAT instrument will demonstrate the science capabilities of the LMT through two relatively short science programmes to provide high resolution follow-up surveys of Galactic and extra-galactic sources previously observed with the Herschel space observatory, after the initial observing campaigns. In this paper, we will provide an overview of the overall instrument design as well as an update on progress and scheduled installation on the LMT., Comment: Accepted for publication in the Journal of Low Temperature Detectors
Published: 2018
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42. Relative Alignment Between the Magnetic Field and Molecular Gas Structure in the Vela C Giant Molecular Cloud using Low and High Density Tracers

Author: Fissel, Laura M., Ade, Peter A. R., Angilè, Francesco E., Ashton, Peter, Benton, Steven J., Chen, Che-Yu, Cunningham, Maria, Devlin, Mark J., Dober, Bradley, Friesen, Rachel, Fukui, Yasuo, Galitzki, Nicholas, Gandilo, Natalie N., Goodman, Alyssa, Green, Claire-Elise, Jones, Paul, Klein, Jeffrey, King, Patrick, Korotkov, Andrei L., Li, Zhi-Yun, Lowe, Vicki, Martin, Peter G., Matthews, Tristan G., Moncelsi, Lorenzo, Nakamura, Fumitaka, Netterfield, Calvin B., Newmark, Amanda, Novak, Giles, Pascale, Enzo, Poidevin, Frédérick, Santos, Fabio P., Savini, Giorgio, Scott, Douglas, Shariff, Jamil A., Soler, Juan D., Thomas, Nicholas E., Tucker, Carole E., Tucker, Gregory S., Ward-Thompson, Derek, Zucker, Catherine, Fissel, Laura M., Ade, Peter A. R., Angilè, Francesco E., Ashton, Peter, Benton, Steven J., Chen, Che-Yu, Cunningham, Maria, Devlin, Mark J., Dober, Bradley, Friesen, Rachel, Fukui, Yasuo, Galitzki, Nicholas, Gandilo, Natalie N., Goodman, Alyssa, Green, Claire-Elise, Jones, Paul, Klein, Jeffrey, King, Patrick, Korotkov, Andrei L., Li, Zhi-Yun, Lowe, Vicki, Martin, Peter G., Matthews, Tristan G., Moncelsi, Lorenzo, Nakamura, Fumitaka, Netterfield, Calvin B., Newmark, Amanda, Novak, Giles, Pascale, Enzo, Poidevin, Frédérick, Santos, Fabio P., Savini, Giorgio, Scott, Douglas, Shariff, Jamil A., Soler, Juan D., Thomas, Nicholas E., Tucker, Carole E., Tucker, Gregory S., Ward-Thompson, Derek, and Zucker, Catherine
Abstract: We compare the magnetic field orientation for the young giant molecular cloud Vela C inferred from 500-$\mu$m polarization maps made with the BLASTPol balloon-borne polarimeter to the orientation of structures in the integrated line emission maps from Mopra observations. Averaging over the entire cloud we find that elongated structures in integrated line-intensity, or zeroth-moment maps, for low density tracers such as $^{12}$CO and $^{13}$CO $J$ $\rightarrow$ 1 - 0 are statistically more likely to align parallel to the magnetic field, while intermediate or high density tracers show (on average) a tendency for alignment perpendicular to the magnetic field. This observation agrees with previous studies of the change in relative orientation with column density in Vela C, and supports a model where the magnetic field is strong enough to have influenced the formation of dense gas structures within Vela C. The transition from parallel to no preferred/perpendicular orientation appears to happen between the densities traced by $^{13}$CO and by C$^{18}$O $J$ $\rightarrow$ 1 - 0. Using RADEX radiative transfer models to estimate the characteristic number density traced by each molecular line we find that the transition occurs at a molecular hydrogen number density of approximately $10^3$ cm$^{-3}$. We also see that the Centre-Ridge (the highest column density and most active star-forming region within Vela C) appears to have a transition at a lower number density, suggesting that this may depend on the evolutionary state of the cloud., Comment: 27 pages, 15 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Published: 2018
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43. Modelling the Performance of Single-Photon Counting Kinetic Inductance Detectors

Author: Parrianen, Josie Dzifa Akua, Papageorgiou, Andreas, Doyle, Simon, Pascale, Enzo, Parrianen, Josie Dzifa Akua, Papageorgiou, Andreas, Doyle, Simon, and Pascale, Enzo
Abstract: Using conventional superconductor theory we discuss and validate a model that describes the energy-resolving performance of an aluminium LEKID to single-photon absorption events. While aluminium is not the optimum material for single-photon counting applications, this material is well understood and is used to understand the underlying device physics of these detectors. We also discuss data analysis techniques used to extract single-photon detections from noisy data., Comment: 17th International Workshop in Low Temperature Detectors Conference Proceedings
Published: 2018

44. Intensity-Coupled-Polarization in Instruments with a Continuously Rotating Half-Wave Plate

Author: Didier, Joy, Miller, Amber D., Araujo, Derek, Aubin, François, Geach, Christopher, Johnson, Bradley, Korotkov, Andrei, Raach, Kate, Westbrook, Benjamin, Young, Karl, Aboobaker, Asad M., Ade, Peter, Baccigalupi, Carlo, Bao, Chaoyun, Chapman, Daniel, Dobbs, Matt, Grainger, Will, Hanany, Shaul, Helson, Kyle, Hillbrand, Seth, Hubmayr, Johannes, Jaffe, Andrew, Jones, Terry, Klein, Jeff, Lee, Adrian, Limon, Michele, MacDermid, Kevin, Milligan, Michael, Pascale, Enzo, Reichborn-Kjennerud, Britt, Sagiv, Ilan, Tucker, Carole, Tucker, Gregory S., Zilic, Kyle, Didier, Joy, Miller, Amber D., Araujo, Derek, Aubin, François, Geach, Christopher, Johnson, Bradley, Korotkov, Andrei, Raach, Kate, Westbrook, Benjamin, Young, Karl, Aboobaker, Asad M., Ade, Peter, Baccigalupi, Carlo, Bao, Chaoyun, Chapman, Daniel, Dobbs, Matt, Grainger, Will, Hanany, Shaul, Helson, Kyle, Hillbrand, Seth, Hubmayr, Johannes, Jaffe, Andrew, Jones, Terry, Klein, Jeff, Lee, Adrian, Limon, Michele, MacDermid, Kevin, Milligan, Michael, Pascale, Enzo, Reichborn-Kjennerud, Britt, Sagiv, Ilan, Tucker, Carole, Tucker, Gregory S., and Zilic, Kyle
Abstract: We discuss a systematic effect associated with measuring polarization with a continuously rotating half-wave plate. The effect was identified with the data from the E and B Experiment (EBEX), which was a balloon-borne instrument designed to measure the polarization of the CMB as well as that from Galactic dust. The data show polarization fraction larger than 10\% while less than 3\% were expected from instrumental polarization. We give evidence that the excess polarization is due to detector non-linearity in the presence of a continuously rotating HWP. The non-linearity couples intensity signals into polarization. We develop a map-based method to remove the excess polarization. Applying this method for the 150 (250) GHz bands data we find that 81\% (92\%) of the excess polarization was removed. Characterization and mitigation of this effect is important for future experiments aiming to measure the CMB B-modes with a continuously rotating HWP., Comment: 43 pages, 12 figures, submitted to the Astrophysical Journal
Published: 2017
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45. A better characterization of the chemical composition of exoplanets atmospheres with ARIEL

Author: Venot, Olivia, Drummond, Benjamin, Miguel, Yamila, Waldmann, Ingo P., Pascale, Enzo, Zingales, Tiziano, Venot, Olivia, Drummond, Benjamin, Miguel, Yamila, Waldmann, Ingo P., Pascale, Enzo, and Zingales, Tiziano
Abstract: Since the discovery of the first extrasolar planet more than twenty years ago, we have discovered nearly four thousand planets orbiting stars other than the Sun. Current observational instruments (on board the Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer, and on ground-based facilities) have allowed the scientific community to obtain important information on the physical and chemical properties of these planets. However, for a more in-depth characterisation of these worlds, more powerful telescopes are needed. Thanks to the high sensitivity of their instruments, the next generation of space observatories (e.g. JWST, ARIEL) will provide observations of unprecedented quality, allowing us to extract far more information than what was previously possible. Such high quality observations will provide constraints on theoretical models of exoplanet atmospheres and lead to a greater understanding of their physics and chemistry. Important modelling efforts have been carried out during the past few years, showing that numerous parameters and processes (such as the elemental abundances, temperature, mixing, etc.) are likely to affect the atmospheric composition of exoplanets and subsequently the observable spectra. In this manuscript, we review the different parameters that can influence the molecular composition of exoplanet atmospheres. We show that the high-precision of ARIEL observations will improve our view and characterisation of exoplanet atmospheres. We also consider future developments that are necessary to improve atmospheric models, driven by the need to interpret the available observations., Comment: Accepted for publication in Experimental Astronomy, ARIEL Special Issue
Published: 2017
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46. Measuring Reionization, Neutrino Mass, and Cosmic Inflation with BFORE

Author: Bryan, Sean, Ade, Peter, Bond, J. Richard, Boulanger, Francois, Devlin, Mark, Doyle, Simon, Filippini, Jeffrey, Fissel, Laura, Groppi, Christopher, Holder, Gilbert, Hubmayr, Johannes, Mauskopf, Philip, McMahon, Jeffrey, Nagy, Johanna, Netterfield, C. Barth, Niemack, Michael, Novak, Giles, Pascale, Enzo, Pisano, Giampaolo, Ruhl, John, Scott, Douglas, Soler, Juan, Tucker, Carole, Vieira, Joaquin, Bryan, Sean, Ade, Peter, Bond, J. Richard, Boulanger, Francois, Devlin, Mark, Doyle, Simon, Filippini, Jeffrey, Fissel, Laura, Groppi, Christopher, Holder, Gilbert, Hubmayr, Johannes, Mauskopf, Philip, McMahon, Jeffrey, Nagy, Johanna, Netterfield, C. Barth, Niemack, Michael, Novak, Giles, Pascale, Enzo, Pisano, Giampaolo, Ruhl, John, Scott, Douglas, Soler, Juan, Tucker, Carole, and Vieira, Joaquin
Abstract: BFORE is a NASA high-altitude ultra-long-duration balloon mission proposed to measure the cosmic microwave background (CMB) across half the sky during a 28-day mid-latitude flight launched from Wanaka, New Zealand. With the unique access to large angular scales and high frequencies provided by the balloon platform, BFORE will significantly improve measurements of the optical depth to reionization tau, breaking parameter degeneracies needed for a measurement of neutrino mass with the CMB. The large angular scale data will enable BFORE to hunt for the large-scale gravitational wave B-mode signal, as well as the degree-scale signal, each at the r~0.01 level. The balloon platform allows BFORE to map Galactic dust foregrounds at frequencies where they dominate, in order to robustly separate them from CMB signals measured by BFORE, in addition to complementing data from ground-based telescopes. The combination of frequencies will also lead to velocity measurements for thousands of galaxy clusters, as well as probing how star-forming galaxies populate dark matter halos. The mission will be the first near-space use of TES multichroic detectors (150/217 GHz and 280/353 GHz bands) using highly-multiplexed mSQUID microwave readout, raising the technical readiness level of both technologies., Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Proceedings of Low Temperature Detectors 17
Published: 2017
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47. The NIKA2 large field-of-view millimeter continuum camera for the 30-m IRAM telescope

Author: Adam, Remi, Adane, Amar, Ade, P. A. R., André, Philippe, Andrianasolo, Aina, Aussel, Herve, Beelen, Alexandre, Benoit, Alain, Bideaud, Aurelien, Billot, Nicolas, Bourrion, Olivier, Bracco, Andrea, Calvo, Martino, Catalano, Andrea, Coiffard, Gregoire, Comis, Barbara, De Petris, Marco, Désert, François-Xavier, Doyle, Simon, Driessen, E. F. C., Evans, Ruth, Goupy, Johannes, Kramer, Carsten, Lagache, Guilaine, Leclercq, Samuel, Leggeri, Jean-Paul, Lestrade, Jean-François, Macias-Perez, Juan-Francisco, Mauskopf, Philip, Mayet, Frederic, Maury, Anaelle, Monfardini, Alessandro, Navarro, Santiago, Pascale, Enzo, Perotto, Laurence, Pisano, Giampaolo, Ponthieu, Nicolas, Reveret, Vincent, Rigby, Andrew, Ritacco, Alessia, Romero, Charles, Roussel, Helene, Ruppin, Florian, Schuster, Karl, Sievers, Albrecht, Triqueneaux, Sebastien, Tucker, Carole, Zylka, Robert, Adam, Remi, Adane, Amar, Ade, P. A. R., André, Philippe, Andrianasolo, Aina, Aussel, Herve, Beelen, Alexandre, Benoit, Alain, Bideaud, Aurelien, Billot, Nicolas, Bourrion, Olivier, Bracco, Andrea, Calvo, Martino, Catalano, Andrea, Coiffard, Gregoire, Comis, Barbara, De Petris, Marco, Désert, François-Xavier, Doyle, Simon, Driessen, E. F. C., Evans, Ruth, Goupy, Johannes, Kramer, Carsten, Lagache, Guilaine, Leclercq, Samuel, Leggeri, Jean-Paul, Lestrade, Jean-François, Macias-Perez, Juan-Francisco, Mauskopf, Philip, Mayet, Frederic, Maury, Anaelle, Monfardini, Alessandro, Navarro, Santiago, Pascale, Enzo, Perotto, Laurence, Pisano, Giampaolo, Ponthieu, Nicolas, Reveret, Vincent, Rigby, Andrew, Ritacco, Alessia, Romero, Charles, Roussel, Helene, Ruppin, Florian, Schuster, Karl, Sievers, Albrecht, Triqueneaux, Sebastien, Tucker, Carole, and Zylka, Robert
Abstract: Millimeter-wave continuum astronomy is today an indispensable tool for both general Astrophysics studies and Cosmology. General purpose, large field-of-view instruments are needed to map the sky at intermediate angular scales not accessible by the high-resolution interferometers and by the coarse angular resolution space-borne or ground-based surveys. These instruments have to be installed at the focal plane of the largest single-dish telescopes. In this context, we have constructed and deployed a multi-thousands pixels dual-band (150 and 260 GHz, respectively 2mm and 1.15mm wavelengths) camera to image an instantaneous field-of-view of 6.5arc-min and configurable to map the linear polarization at 260GHz. We are providing a detailed description of this instrument, named NIKA2 (New IRAM KID Arrays 2), in particular focusing on the cryogenics, the optics, the focal plane arrays based on Kinetic Inductance Detectors (KID) and the readout electronics. We are presenting the performance measured on the sky during the commissioning runs that took place between October 2015 and April 2017 at the 30-meter IRAM (Institut of Millimetric Radio Astronomy) telescope at Pico Veleta. NIKA2 has been successfully deployed and commissioned, performing in-line with the ambitious expectations. In particular, NIKA2 exhibits FWHM angular resolutions of around 11 and 17.5 arc-seconds at respectively 260 and 150GHz. The NEFD (Noise Equivalent Flux Densities) demonstrated on the maps are, at these two respective frequencies, 33 and 8 mJy*sqrt(s). A first successful science verification run has been achieved in April 2017. The instrument is currently offered to the astronomical community during the coming winter and will remain available for at least the next ten years., Comment: Accepted for publication on Astronomy & Astrophysics, in press
Published: 2017
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48. First Observation of the Submillimeter Polarization Spectrum in a Translucent Molecular Cloud

Author: Ashton, Peter C., Ade, Peter A. R., Angilè, Francesco E., Benton, Steven J., Devlin, Mark J., Dober, Bradley, Fissel, Laura M., Fukui, Yasuo, Galitzki, Nicholas, Gandilo, Natalie N., Klein, Jeffrey, Korotkov, Andrei K., Li, Zhi-Yun, Martin, Peter G., Matthews, Tristan G., Moncelsi, Lorenzo, Nakamura, Fumitaka, Netterfield, Calvin B., Novak, Giles, Pascale, Enzo, Poidevin, Frédéric, Santos, Fabio P., Savini, Giorgio, Scott, Douglas, Shariff, Jamil A., Soler, Juan D., Thomas, Nicholas E., Tucker, Carole E., Tucker, Gregory S., Ward-Thompson, Derek, Ashton, Peter C., Ade, Peter A. R., Angilè, Francesco E., Benton, Steven J., Devlin, Mark J., Dober, Bradley, Fissel, Laura M., Fukui, Yasuo, Galitzki, Nicholas, Gandilo, Natalie N., Klein, Jeffrey, Korotkov, Andrei K., Li, Zhi-Yun, Martin, Peter G., Matthews, Tristan G., Moncelsi, Lorenzo, Nakamura, Fumitaka, Netterfield, Calvin B., Novak, Giles, Pascale, Enzo, Poidevin, Frédéric, Santos, Fabio P., Savini, Giorgio, Scott, Douglas, Shariff, Jamil A., Soler, Juan D., Thomas, Nicholas E., Tucker, Carole E., Tucker, Gregory S., and Ward-Thompson, Derek
Abstract: Polarized emission from aligned dust is a crucial tool for studies of magnetism in the ISM and a troublesome contaminant for studies of CMB polarization. In each case, an understanding of the significance of the polarization signal requires well-calibrated physical models of dust grains. Despite decades of progress in theory and observation, polarized dust models remain largely underconstrained. During its 2012 flight, the balloon-borne telescope BLASTPol obtained simultaneous broad-band polarimetric maps of a translucent molecular cloud at 250, 350, and 500 microns. Combining these data with polarimetry from the Planck 850 micron band, we have produced a submillimeter polarization spectrum for a cloud of this type for the first time. We find the polarization degree to be largely constant across the four bands. This result introduces a new observable with the potential to place strong empirical constraints on ISM dust polarization models in a previously inaccessible density regime. Comparing with models by Draine and Fraisse (2009), our result disfavors two of their models for which all polarization arises due only to aligned silicate grains. By creating simple models for polarized emission in a translucent cloud, we verify that extinction within the cloud should have only a small effect on the polarization spectrum shape compared to the diffuse ISM. Thus we expect the measured polarization spectrum to be a valid check on diffuse ISM dust models. The general flatness of the observed polarization spectrum suggests a challenge to models where temperature and alignment degree are strongly correlated across major dust components., Comment: 17 pages, 10 figures. Submitted to ApJ
Published: 2017
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49. The EBEX Balloon-Borne Experiment - Gondola, Attitude Control, and Control Software

Author: The EBEX Collaboration, Aboobaker, Asad, Ade, Peter, Araujo, Derek, Aubin, François, Baccigalupi, Carlo, Bao, Chaoyun, Chapman, Daniel, Didier, Joy, Dobbs, Matt, Grainger, Will, Hanany, Shaul, Helson, Kyle, Hillbrand, Seth, Hubmayr, Johannes, Jaffe, Andrew, Johnson, Bradley, Jones, Terry, Klein, Jeff, Korotkov, Andrei, Lee, Adrian, Levinson, Lorne, Limon, Michele, MacDermid, Kevin, Miller, Amber D., Milligan, Michael, Moncelsi, Lorenzo, Pascale, Enzo, Raach, Kate, Reichborn-Kjennerud, Britt, Sagiv, Ilan, Tucker, Carole, Tucker, Gregory S., Westbrook, Benjamin, Young, Karl, Zilic, Kyle, The EBEX Collaboration, Aboobaker, Asad, Ade, Peter, Araujo, Derek, Aubin, François, Baccigalupi, Carlo, Bao, Chaoyun, Chapman, Daniel, Didier, Joy, Dobbs, Matt, Grainger, Will, Hanany, Shaul, Helson, Kyle, Hillbrand, Seth, Hubmayr, Johannes, Jaffe, Andrew, Johnson, Bradley, Jones, Terry, Klein, Jeff, Korotkov, Andrei, Lee, Adrian, Levinson, Lorne, Limon, Michele, MacDermid, Kevin, Miller, Amber D., Milligan, Michael, Moncelsi, Lorenzo, Pascale, Enzo, Raach, Kate, Reichborn-Kjennerud, Britt, Sagiv, Ilan, Tucker, Carole, Tucker, Gregory S., Westbrook, Benjamin, Young, Karl, and Zilic, Kyle
Abstract: The E and B Experiment (EBEX) was a long-duration balloon-borne instrument designed to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation. EBEX was the first balloon-borne instrument to implement a kilo-pixel array of transition edge sensor (TES) bolometric detectors and the first CMB experiment to use the digital version of the frequency domain multiplexing system for readout of the TES array. The scan strategy relied on 40 s peak-to-peak constant velocity azimuthal scans. We discuss the unique demands on the design and operation of the payload that resulted from these new technologies and the scan strategy. We describe the solutions implemented including the development of a power system designed to provide a total of at least 2.3 kW, a cooling system to dissipate 590 W consumed by the detectors' readout system, software to manage and handle the data of the kilo-pixel array, and specialized attitude reconstruction software. We present flight performance data showing faultless management of the TES array, adequate powering and cooling of the readout electronics, and constraint of attitude reconstruction errors such that the spurious B-modes they induced were less than 10% of CMB B-mode power spectrum with $r=0.05$., Comment: 37 pages, 16 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ Supp
Published: 2017
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50. Comparing Submillimeter Polarized Emission with Near-infrared Polarization of Background Stars for the Vela C Molecular Cloud

Author: Santos, Fabio P., Ade, Peter A. R., Angilè, Francesco E., Ashton, Peter, Benton, Steven J., Devlin, Mark J., Dober, Bradley, Fissel, Laura M., Fukui, Yasuo, Galitzki, Nicholas, Gandilo, Natalie N., Klein, Jeffrey, Korotkov, Andrei L., Li, Zhi-Yun, Martin, Peter G., Matthews, Tristan G., Moncelsi, Lorenzo, Nakamura, Fumitaka, Netterfield, Calvin B., Novak, Giles, Pascale, Enzo, Poidevin, Frédérick, Savini, Giorgio, Scott, Douglas, Shariff, Jamil A., Soler, Juan Diego, Thomas, Nicholas E., Tucker, Carole E., Tucker, Gregory S., Ward-Thompson, Derek, Santos, Fabio P., Ade, Peter A. R., Angilè, Francesco E., Ashton, Peter, Benton, Steven J., Devlin, Mark J., Dober, Bradley, Fissel, Laura M., Fukui, Yasuo, Galitzki, Nicholas, Gandilo, Natalie N., Klein, Jeffrey, Korotkov, Andrei L., Li, Zhi-Yun, Martin, Peter G., Matthews, Tristan G., Moncelsi, Lorenzo, Nakamura, Fumitaka, Netterfield, Calvin B., Novak, Giles, Pascale, Enzo, Poidevin, Frédérick, Savini, Giorgio, Scott, Douglas, Shariff, Jamil A., Soler, Juan Diego, Thomas, Nicholas E., Tucker, Carole E., Tucker, Gregory S., and Ward-Thompson, Derek
Abstract: We present a large-scale combination of near-infrared (near-IR) interstellar polarization data from background starlight with polarized emission data at submillimeter wavelengths for the Vela C molecular cloud. The near-IR data consist of more than 6700 detections probing a range of visual extinctions between 2 and 20 mag in and around the cloud. The submillimeter data were collected in Antarctica by the Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for Polarimetry. This is the first direct combination of near-IR and submillimeter polarization data for a molecular cloud aimed at measuring the “polarization efficiency ratio” (Reff ), a quantity that is expected to depend only on grainintrinsic physical properties. It is defined as p500 (pI tV ), where p500 and pI are polarization fractions at 500 mm and the I band, respectively, and tV is the optical depth. To ensure that the same column density of material is producing both polarization from emission and from extinction, we conducted a careful selection of near-background stars using 2MASS, Herschel, and Planck data. This selection excludes objects contaminated by the Galactic diffuse background material as well as objects located in the foreground. Accounting for statistical and systematic uncertainties, we estimate an average Reff value of 2.4±0.8, which can be used to test the predictions of dust grain models designed for molecular clouds when such predictions become available. The ratio Reff appears to be relatively flat as a function of the cloud depth for the range of visual extinctions probed.
Published: 2017

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