NEAT: a spaceborne astrometric mission for the detection and characterization of nearby habitable planetary systems

Fabien Malbet; Renaud Goullioud; Pierre-Olivier Lagage; Alain Léger; Mike Shao; Antoine Crouzier

doi:10.1117/12.926077

21 September 2012 NEAT: a spaceborne astrometric mission for the detection and characterization of nearby habitable planetary systems

Fabien Malbet, Renaud Goullioud, Pierre-Olivier Lagage, Alain Léger, Mike Shao, Antoine Crouzier

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Proceedings Volume 8442, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2012: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave; 84420J (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.926077
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2012, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Abstract

The NEAT (Nearby Earth Astrometric Telescope) mission is a proposal submitted to ESA for its 2010 call for M-size mission within the Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 plan. The main scientific goal of the NEAT mission is to detect and characterize planetary systems in an exhaustive way down to 1 Earth mass in the habitable zone and further away, around nearby stars for F, G, and K spectral types. This survey would provide the actual planetary masses, the full characterization of the orbits including their inclination, for all the components of the planetary system down to that mass limit. NEAT will continue the work performed by Hipparcos and Gaia by reaching a precision that is improved by two orders of magnitude on pointed targets.

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Fabien Malbet, Renaud Goullioud, Pierre-Olivier Lagage, Alain Léger, Mike Shao, and Antoine Crouzier "NEAT: a spaceborne astrometric mission for the detection and characterization of nearby habitable planetary systems", Proc. SPIE 8442, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2012: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, 84420J (21 September 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.926077

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