@inproceedings{cbf590c3f94a47a6a139ac36c3573aa4,
title = "The Ariel FGS - current design and implementation",
abstract = "The FGS is one of two scientific instruments on board the ESA ARIEL space telescope, which ESA plans to launch in 2029. The aim of the mission is to characterize the atmospheres of several hundred different exoplanets. The FGS is an opto-electronic instrument – a photometer and a near infra-red spectrometer. Although FGS stands for Fine Guidance System, in fact it has two main goals: to deliver scientific data of observed exoplanets, precisely speaking, their atmospheres, and to support the spacecraft{\textquoteright}s AOCS with very precise pointing and guiding towards observation objects. This paper presents an overview of the current FGS design and implementation. The instrument is in the middle step between successfully passed iPDR and upcoming iCDR. Up to now, the team successfully built a prototype of the instrument, and is working on the manufacturing of the engineering and engineering-qualification models.",
keywords = "ARIEL, exoplanets, exoplanets atmospheres, FGS, photometer, satellite guiding systems, spectrometer",
author = "Skup, {Konrad R.} and Miroslaw Rataj and Piotr Wawer and Mateusz Sobiecki and Kamil Ber and Konrad Rutkowski and Przemys{\l}aw Nita and Grzegorz Szymanski and Marianna Fulara and Marcin Sobolewski and Nils Thernstrom and {\L}ukasz Kury{\l}owicz and Daniel P{\'o}{\l}torak and Aleksandra Miro{\'n}ska and Marek Winkler and Maurycy Ciarka and Bradley Neuse and Roland Ottensamer and Gerald M{\"o}senlechner and Armin Luntzer and Warren Holmes and Renaud Goullioud and Mauro Focardi and Raoul Grimoldi",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2024 SPIE.; Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave ; Conference date: 16-06-2024 Through 22-06-2024",
year = "2024",
month = jul,
day = "25",
doi = "10.1117/12.3019545",
language = "English",
volume = "13092",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
publisher = "SPIE",
editor = "Coyle, {Laura E.} and Shuji Matsuura and Perrin, {Marshall D.}",
booktitle = "Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024",
}