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Euclid preparation. XXIX. Water ice in spacecraft part I: The physics of ice formation and contamination
Euclid Collaboration, M. Schirmer, K. Thürmer +218
Molecular contamination is a well-known problem in space flight. Water is the most common contaminant and alters numerous properties of a cryogenic optical system. Too much ice mea…
The Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) on the James Webb Space Telescope I. Overview of the instrument and its capabilities
P. Jakobsen, P. Ferruit, C. Alves de Oliveira +68
We provide an overview of the design and capabilities of the near-infrared spectrograph (NIRSpec) onboard the James Webb Space Telescope. NIRSpec is designed to be capable of carry…
Image processing for precise geometry determination
Ines Belgacem, Grégory Jonniaux, Frédéric Schmidt
Reliable spatial information can be difficult to obtain in planetary remote sensing applications because of errors present in the metadata of images taken with space probes. We hav…
Gaia Data Release 2. Calibration and mitigation of electronic offset effects in the data
N. C. Hambly, M. Cropper, S. Boudreault +30
The European Space Agency Gaia satellite was launched into orbit around L2 in December 2013. This ambitious mission has strict requirements on residual systematic errors resulting…
Gaia Radial Velocity Spectrometer
M. Cropper, D. Katz, P. Sartoretti +40
This paper presents the specification, design, and development of the Radial Velocity Spectrometer (RVS) on the European Space Agency's Gaia mission. Starting with the rationale fo…
The Euclid mission design
Giuseppe D Racca, Rene Laureijs, Luca Stagnaro +39
Euclid is a space-based optical/near-infrared survey mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) to investigate the nature of dark energy, dark matter and gravity by observing the g…
Gaia Data Release 1. Summary of the astrometric, photometric, and survey properties
Gaia Collaboration, A. G. A. Brown, A. Vallenari +5
At about 1000 days after the launch of Gaia we present the first Gaia data release, Gaia DR1, consisting of astrometry and photometry for over 1 billion sources brighter than magni…
The Gaia mission
Gaia Collaboration
Gaia is a cornerstone mission in the science programme of the European Space Agency (ESA). The spacecraft construction was approved in 2006, following a study in which the original…
Gaia: focus, straylight and basic angle
A. Mora, M. Biermann, A. Bombrun +17
The Gaia all-sky astrometric survey is challenged by several issues affecting the spacecraft stability. Amongst them, we find the focus evolution, straylight and basic angle variat…
The Gaia Basic angle: measurement and variations
Alcione Mora, Ulrich Bastian, Michael Biermann +5
The ESA Gaia mission uses two telescopes to create the most ambitious survey of the Galaxy. The angle between them must be known with exquisite precision and accuracy. An interfero…
Enabling Gaia observations of naked-eye stars
J. Martín-Fleitas, A. Mora, J. Sahlmann +5
The ESA Gaia space astrometry mission will perform an all-sky survey of stellar objects complete in the nominal magnitude range G = [6.0 - 20.0]. The stars with G lower than 6.0, i…
Gaia on-board metrology: basic angle and best focus
A. Mora, M. Biermann, A. G. A. Brown +21
The Gaia payload ensures maximum passive stability using a single material, SiC, for most of its elements. Dedicated metrology instruments are, however, required to carry out two f…