Testing the ARIEL Exoplanet Space Observatory

牛津物理学院是国际团队的一员，该团队帮助开发欧空局的ARIEL系外行星太空望远镜，该望远镜将于本世纪20年代末发射。ARIEL是一个1米级望远镜，将位于第二个地球-太阳拉格朗日点，对1000多个系外行星的大气进行首次详细的过境光谱调查。在英国航天局的支持下，我们的小组正在研究光学地面测试设备，以确保ARIEL能够满足其严格的稳定性要求，这将使该任务一旦发射，就能从其主恒星的大气信号中分离出行星的大气信号。我们正在寻找一名学生加入我们的团队，从事ARIEL光学地面测试设备的设计、测试和开发工作。然后，学生将把我们可以在地面上测量的表现与ARIEL预测其他恒星周围行星大气特征的能力联系起来。本项目将涉及空间仪器测试设备的开发，因此需要物理学/天体物理学或工程相关学科的学士学位。

Oxford Physics are part of the international team helping to develop ESA's ARIEL Exoplanet space telescope due for launch in the late 2020s. ARIEL is a 1 m class telescope that will be located at the 2nd Earth-Sun Lagrange point to carry out the first detailed transit spectroscopy survey of more than 1000 exoplanetary atmospheres. Our group, supported by the UK Space Agency, are working on the optical ground test equipment to ensure that ARIEL can meet its strict stability requirements that will allow the mission once launched to untangle the signal of a planet's atmosphere from that of its host star. We are looking for a student to join our team to work on the design, test and development of ARIEL's optical ground test equipment. The student will then link the performance we can measure on the ground will to ARIEL's predicted ability to characterise the atmospheres of planets around other stars.This project will involve the development of equipment for testing space instrumentation, so a first degree in physics/astrophysics or an engineering related discipline is required.