NOMAD spectrometer on the ExoMars trace gas orbiter mission: part 2-design, manufacturing, and testing of the ultraviolet and visible channel

Manish R. Patel*, Philippe Antoine, Jonathon Mason, Mark Leese, Brijen Hathi, Adam H. Stevens, Daniel Dawson, Jason Gow, Timothy Ringrose, James Holmes, Stephen R. Lewis, Didier Beghuin, Philip van Donink, Renaud Ligot, Jean-Luc Dewandel, Daohua Hu, Doug Bates, Richard Cole, Rachel Drummond, Ian R. ThomasCedric Depiesse, Eddy Neefs, Eddy Equeter, Bojan Ristic, Sophie Berkenbosch, David Bolsee, Yannick Willame, Ann Carine Vandaele, Stefan Lesschaeve, Lieve De Vos, Nico Van Vooren, Tanguy Thibert, Emmanuel Mazy, Julio Rodriguez-Gomez, Rafael Morales, Gian Paolo Candini, M. Carmen Pastor-Morales, Rosario Sanz, Beatriz Aparicio del Moral, Jose-Maria Jeronimo-Zafra, Juan Manuel Gomez-Lopez, Gustavo Alonso-Rodrigo, Isabel Perez-Grande, Javier Cubas, Alejandro M. Gomez-Sanjuan, Fermin Navarro-Medina, Ali BenMoussa, Boris Giordanengo, Samuel Gissot, Giancarlo Bellucci, Jose Juan Lopez-Moreno

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NOMAD is a spectrometer suite on board the ESA/Roscosmos ExoMars Trace GasOrbiter, which launched in March 2016. NOMAD consists of two infrared channels and one ultraviolet and visible channel, allowing the instrument to perform observations quasi-constantly, by taking nadir measurements at the day-and night-side, and during solar occultations. Here, in part 2 of a linked study, we describe the design, manufacturing, and testing of the ultraviolet and visible spectrometer channel called UVIS. We focus upon the optical design and working principle where two telescopes are coupled to a single grating spectrometer using a selector mechanism. Published by The Optical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2771-2782
Number of pages12
JournalApplied optics
Volume56
Issue number10
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Apr 2017

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