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1. High-Energy Photon and Particle Effects onExoplanet Atmospheres and Habitability

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Drake, Jeremy J., Alvarado-Gómez, Julián D., Airapetian, Vladimir, Cauley, P. Wilson, Argiroffi, Costanza, Browning, Matthew K., Christian, Damian J., Cohen, Ofer, Corrales, Lia, Danchi, William, de Val-Borro, Miguel, Dong, Chuanfei, Forman, William, France, Kevin, Gallo, Elena, Garcia-Sage, Katherine, Garraffo, Cecilia, Gelino, Dawn M., Gronoff, Guillaume, Günther, H. Moritz, Harper, Graham M., Haywood, Raphaëlle D., Karovska, Margarita, Kashyap, Vinay, Kastner, Joel, Kim, Jinyoung Serena, Leutenegger, Maurice A., Linsky, Jeffrey, López-Morales, Mercedes, Micela, Giusi, Moschou, Sofia-Paraskevi, Oskinova, Lidia, Osten, Rachel A., Owen, James E., Poppenhaeger, Katja, Principe, David A., Pye, John P., Sciortino, Salvatore, Tzanavaris, Panayiotis, Wargelin, Brad, Wheatley, Peter J., Williams, Peter K. G., Winston, Elaine, and Wolk, Scott J.

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High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP), Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Physics::Space Physics, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR), Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
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It is now recognized that energetic stellar photon and particle radiation evaporates and erodes planetary atmospheres and controls upper atmospheric chemistry. Key exoplanet host stars will be too faint at X-ray wavelengths for accurate characterization using existing generation and future slated X-ray telescopes. Observation of stellar coronal mass ejections and winds are also beyond current instrumentation. In line with theCommittee on an Exoplanet Science Strategy recognition that holistic observational approaches are needed, we point out here that a full understanding of exoplanet atmospheres, their evolution and determination of habitability requires a powerful high-resolution X-ray imaging and spectroscopic observatory. This is the only capability that can: (1) characterize by proxy the crucial, difficult to observe, EUV stellar flux, its history and its variations for planet hosting stars; (2) observe the stellar wind; (3) detect the subtle Doppler signatures of coronal mass ejections., Comment: Astro2020 Decadal Survey Science White Paper

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2019
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2. A chemical survey of exoplanets with ARIEL

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Tinetti, Giovanna, Drossart, Pierre, Eccleston, Paul, Hartogh, Paul, Heske, Astrid, Leconte, J., Micela, Giusi, Ollivier, Marc, Pilbratt, Göran, Puig, Ludovic, Turrini, Diego, Vandenbussche, Bart, Wolkenberg, Paulina, Beaulieu, Jean-Philippe, Buchave, 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, Thérèse, 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, Benjamin, 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, Rene, 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, Benoît, 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, Emmanuel, Leto, Giuseppe, Luntzer, A., Rank-Lüftinger, Theresa, Maggio, Antonio, Maldonado, Jesus, Maillard, Jean-Pierre, Mall, Urs, Marquette, J.-B., Mathis, Stéphane, 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, Reess, 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, Arnaud, Strugarek, Antoine, Taylor, Jake, Taylor, William, Terenzi, Luca, Tessenyi, Marcell, Tsiaras, Angelos, Tucker, C., Valencia, Diana, Vasisht, Gautam, Vazan, Allona, Vilardell, Francesc, Vinatier, Sandrine, 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, Wolkenberg, Paul, Beaulieu, Jean, Buchave, A., Lagage, Pierre, Ray, Ray, Ribas, Ignas, du Foresto, Vincent, Muñoz, Antonio, Auguères, Jean, Crouzet, Pierre, Pace, Emanuel, Altieri, Francesc, Claudi, Claudio, Brun, Bruno, Bonomo, Aldo, Brucato, Robert, Brun, Allan, Di Giorgio, Anna, Fujii, Yuk, Gérard, Jean, Guarcello, Giuseppe, Maillard, Pierre, Yung, Yuk, Yurchenko, Sergey, Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), University College of London [London] (UCL), Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA (UMR_8109)), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - 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Solar System, STELLAR ACTIVITY, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, [SDU.ASTR.EP]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Earth and Planetary Astrophysics [astro-ph.EP], 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Space missions, Astrobiology, Planet, QB460, TRANSMISSION SPECTRUM, Transit (astronomy), TRANSITING EXOPLANETS, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, QC, Eclipse, QB, Super-Earth, 520 Astronomy, Exoplanets, Exoplanet, BROWN DWARF, IR spectroscopy, Spacemissions, Physical Sciences, 3103 Astronomy and Astrophysics, VALIDATED PLANETS, Molecular signatures, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, JUPITER EXOPLANETS, 530 Physics, Gas giant, Brown dwarf, SUPER-EARTH, Astronomy & Astrophysics, EXTRASOLAR GIANT PLANETS, INFRARED-EMISSION-SPECTRUM, 1912 Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, QB600, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Science & Technology, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 500 Science, 0201 Astronomical And Space Sciences, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, 10231 Institute for Computational Science, SPACE-BASED PHOTOMETRY
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. The Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey (ARIEL) has been selected by the European Space Agency as the next mediumclass science mission, M4, to address these scientific questions. 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 planetary ephemerides, allow us to measure atmospheric signals from the planet at levels of 10-100 part per million (ppm) relative to the star and, given the bright nature of targets, also allows more sophisticated techniques, such as eclipse mapping, to give a deeper insight into the nature of the atmosphere. These types of observations require a stable payload and satellite platform with broad, instantaneous wavelength coverage to detect many molecular species, probe the thermal structure, identify clouds and monitor the stellar activity. The wavelength range proposed covers all the expected major atmospheric gases from e.g. H2O, CO2, CH4 NH3, HCN, H2S through to the more exotic metallic compounds, such as TiO, VO, and condensed species. Simulations of ARIEL performance in conducting exoplanet surveys have been performed – using conservative estimates of mission performance and a full model of all significant noise sources in the measurement – using a list of potential ARIEL targets that incorporates the latest available exoplanet statistics. The conclusion at the end of the Phase A study, is that ARIEL – in line with the stated mission objectives – will be able to observe about 1000 exoplanets depending on the details of the adopted survey strategy, thus confirming the feasibility of the main science objectives.

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2018
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3. The ARIEL space mission

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Beaulieu, Jean-Philippe, Bowles, Neil, Coudé Du Foresto, Vincent, Coustenis, Athena, Decin, Leen, Drossart, Pierre, Eccleston, Paul, Encrenaz, Therese, Forget, François, Griffin, Matt, Pascale, Enzo, Barstow, Joanna, Güdel, Manuel, Hartogh, Paul, Heske, Astrid, Lagage, Pierre-Olivier, Leconte, J., Malaguti, Pino, Micela, Giusi, Middleton, Kevin, Min, Michiel, Moneti, Andrea, Morales, Juan Carlos, Ollivier, Marc, Pace, Emanuele, Pilbratt, Goran, Puig, Ludovic, Rataj, Miroslaw, Ray, Tom, Ribas, Ignasi, Rocchetto, Marco, Sarkar, Subhajit, Selsis, Franck, Taylor, William, Tennyson, Jonathan, Tinetti, Giovanna, Turrini, Diego, Vandenbussche, Bart, Venot, Olivia, Waldmann, Ingo, Wolkenberg, Paulina, Wright, Gillian, Zapatero Osorio, Maria-Rosa, Zingales, Tiziano, Bezawada, Naidu, Papageorgiou, Andreas, Mugnai, Lorenzo, MacEwen, Howard, Lystrup, Makenzie, Fazio, Giovanni, Batalha, Natalie, Tong, Edward, Siegler, Nicholas, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics [Oxford] (AOPP), University of Oxford [Oxford], Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Institute of Astronomy [Leuven], Catholic University of Leuven - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X), University College of London [London] (UCL), Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung (MPS), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), ECLIPSE 2018, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux [Pessac] (LAB), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo (OAPa), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Instituto de Investigaciones Químicas, CSIC, Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon (IGFL), École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Valencia, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Spain] (CSIC), Dipartimento di Informatica [Verona], Università degli Studi di Verona, Cardiff University, Chemistry, Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario (IFSI), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques (LISA (UMR_7583)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 (UPEC UP12)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS), Space Research Centre of Polish Academy of Sciences (CBK), Polska Akademia Nauk (PAN), Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (UMR 8539) (LMD), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Département des Géosciences - ENS Paris, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS), Département d'Astrophysique (ex SAP) (DAP), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (IAS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), ECLIPSE 2017, Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 (UPEC UP12)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali - INAF (IAPS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 (UPEC UP12)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Oxford, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung = Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Department of Computer Science [Verona] (UNIVR | DI), Università degli studi di Verona = University of Verona (UNIVR), National Research Council of Italy | Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Polska Akademia Nauk = Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon), and University of Verona (UNIVR)

Subjects
Astronomy, [SDU.ASTR.EP]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Earth and Planetary Astrophysics [astro-ph.EP], Space, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Atmospheric model, Space (commercial competition), 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, 010309 optics, Telescope, law, Planet, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Transit (astronomy), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Instrumentation, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Spectroscopy, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Atmosphere, Atmospheric wave, Exoplanets, Exoplanet, Stars, 13. Climate action, Transit, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Geology
Abstract

The Atmospheric Remote-Sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey, ARIEL, has been selected to be the next M4 space mission in the ESA Cosmic Vision programme. From launch in 2028, and during the following 4 years of operation, ARIEL will perform precise spectroscopy of the atmospheres of about 1000 known transiting exoplanets using its metre-class telescope, a three-band photometer and three spectrometers that will cover the 0.5 μm to 7.8 μm region of the electromagnetic spectrum. The payload is designed to perform primary and secondary transit spectroscopy, and to measure spectrally resolved phase curves with a stability of < 100 ppm (goal 10 ppm). Observing from an L2 orbit, ARIEL will provide the first statistically significant spectroscopic survey of hot and warm planets. These are an ideal laboratory in which to study the chemistry, the formation and the evolution processes of exoplanets, to constrain the thermodynamics, composition and structure of their atmospheres, and to investigate the properties of the clouds.

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2018
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4. Young Stars and their Variability with LSST

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Bonito, Rosaria, Hartigan, Patrick, Venuti, Laura, Guarcello, Mario, Prisinzano, Loredana, Argiroffi, Costanza, Messina, Sergio, Johns-Krull, Christopher, Feigelson, Eric, Stauffer, John, Giannini, Teresa, Antoniucci, Simone, Sciortino, Salvo, Micela, Giusi, Pillitteri, Ignazio, Fedele, Davide, Podio, Linda, Damiani, Francesco, McGehee, Peregrine, Street, Rachel, Gizis, John, Sacco, Germano, Magrini, Laura, Flaccomio, Ettore, Orlando, Salvatore, Miceli, Marco, Stelzer, Beate, Fuchs, Julien, Chen, Sophia, Pikuz, Sergey, Frasca, Antonio, Biazzo, Katia, Codella, Claudio, Pastorello, Andrea, Alcala', Juan Manuel, Covino, Elvira, Bianchi, Eleonora, and Nisini, Brunella

Subjects
Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
Abstract

Young stars exhibit short-term photometric variability caused by mass accretion events from circumstellar disks, the presence of dusty warps within the inner disks, starspots that rotate across the stellar surfaces, and flares. Long-term variability also occurs owing to starspot longevity and cycles, and from changes in stellar angular momenta and activity as the stars age. We propose to observe the Carina star-forming region in different bands with a cadence of 30 minutes every night for one week per year to clarify the nature of both the short-term and long-term variability of the thousands of young stars in this region. By obtaining well-sampled multicolor lightcurves of this dense young cluster, LSST would acquire the first statistically significant data on how these objects vary on both short and long timescales. This information will allow us to relate the observed variability to stellar properties such as mass, age, binarity, and to environmental properties such as location within or exterior to the H II region, and to the presence or absence of a circumstellar disk., Comment: Contribution in response of the Call for White Papers on LSST Cadence Optimization

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2018
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5. ARIEL – Atmospheric Remote-Sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey

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Tinetti, Giovanna, Drossart, Pierre, Eccleston, Paul, Hartogh, Paul, Leconte, Jérémy, Micela, Giusi, Ollivier, Marc, Pilbratt, Göran, Puig, Ludovic, Turrini, Diego, Bart Vandenbussche, Wolkenberg, Paulina, Ariel Consortium, Ariel Esa Study Team, University College of London [London] (UCL), Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, ECLIPSE 2016, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux [Pessac] (LAB), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo (OAPa), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon (IGFL), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon), University of Valencia, Space Research Centre of Polish Academy of Sciences (CBK), Polska Akademia Nauk = Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN), Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung = Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Polska Akademia Nauk (PAN), and Pomies, Marie-Paule

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Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, [SDU.ASTR.EP]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Earth and Planetary Astrophysics [astro-ph.EP], [SDU.ASTR.EP] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Earth and Planetary Astrophysics [astro-ph.EP], Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Abstract

International audience; The Atmospheric Remote-Sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey (ARIEL) is one of the three candidate missions selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) for its next medium-class science mission due for launch in 2026. The goal of the ARIEL mission is to investigate the atmospheres of several hundreds planets orbiting distant stars in order to address the fundamental questions on how planetary systems form and evolve.During its four (with a potential extension to six) years mission ARIEL will observe 500+ exoplanets in the visible and the infrared with its meter-class telescope in L2. ARIEL targets will include Jupiter- and Neptune-size down to super-Earth and Earth-size around different types of stars. The main focus of the mission will be on hot and warm planets orbiting very close to their star, as they represent a natural laboratory in which to study the chemistry and formation of exoplanets. In cooler planets, different gases separate out through condensation and sinking into distinct cloud layers. The scorching heat experienced by hot exoplanets overrides these processes and keeps all molecular species circulating throughout the atmosphere.The ARIEL mission concept has been developed by a consortium of more than 50 institutes from 12 countries, which include UK, France, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Belgium, Austria, Denmark, Ireland and Portugal. The analysis of ARIEL spectra and photometric data will allow to extract the chemical fingerprints of gases and condensates in the planets' atmospheres, including the elemental composition for the most favorable targets. It will also enable the study of thermal and scattering properties of the atmosphere as the planet orbit around the star.ARIEL will have an open data policy, enabling rapid access by the general community to the high-quality exoplanet spectra that the core survey will deliver.

Published
2016

6. Radial-velocity variability of the Sun as a star with HARPS and HARPS-N

Author

Haywood, Raphaëlle D, Collier Cameron, Andrew, Dumusque, Xavier, Glenday, Alex, Latham, David W, Lovis, Christophe, Maldonado, Jesus, Micela, Giusi, Molinari, Emiliano, Mortier, Annelies, Pepe, Francesco, Phillips, David F, and Udry, Stephane

Subjects
Sun, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, magnetic activity, high-resolution spectroscopy, Sunspots, faculae/plage, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, exoplanets detection and characterisation, radial-velocity observations
Abstract

Since we can resolve the surface of the Sun directly, we can explore the origin of radial-velocity variations induced by individual solar surface features such as faculae/plage, sunspots and granulation. I will present my recent investigation of the radial-velocity variations of the Sun as a star, based on high-resolution HARPS spectra of reflected sunlight and simultaneous images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory. We found that faculae are the dominant source of activity-induced radial-velocity variations, via suppression of convective blueshift. We investigated possible proxies for activity-induced radial-velocity variations and found that optical lightcurves can only provide a partial representation of these signals; the full-disc magnetic flux, however, is an excellent tracer. In addition to this dataset, the HARPS-N spectrograph has been operating with a new solar telescope feed since 2015 July. I will present results from the first year observations, which show radial-velocity variations of up to 7-8 m/s. Identifying proxies for solar radial-velocity variations is key to understanding the radial-velocity variability of other Sun-like stars, and is also essential for other investigations such as exoplanet detection surveys. &nbsp

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2016
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7. A chemical survey of exoplanets with ARIEL

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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, Buchave, 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

Subjects
13. Climate action, 530 Physics, 520 Astronomy, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, 500 Science, 7. Clean energy
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 planetary ephemerides, allow us to measure atmospheric signals from the planet at levels of 10–100 part per million (ppm) relative to the star and, given the bright nature of targets, also allows more sophisticated techniques, such as eclipse mapping, to give a deeper insight into the nature of the atmosphere. These types of observations require a stable payload and satellite platform with broad, instantaneous wavelength coverage to detect many molecular species, probe the thermal structure, identify clouds and monitor the stellar activity. The wavelength range proposed covers all the expected major atmospheric gases from e.g. H₂O, CO₂, CH₄ NH₃, HCN, H₂S through to the more exotic metallic compounds, such as TiO, VO, and condensed species. Simulations of ARIEL performance in conducting exoplanet surveys have been performed – using conservative estimates of mission performance and a full model of all significant noise sources in the measurement – using a list of potential ARIEL targets that incorporates the latest available exoplanet statistics. The conclusion at the end of the Phase A study, is that ARIEL – in line with the stated mission objectives – will be able to observe about 1000 exoplanets depending on the details of the adopted survey strategy, thus confirming the feasibility of the main science objectives.

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