The Eddington Mission |
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| Authors: | I Roxburgh |
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| Institution: | (1) Astronomy Unit, Queen Mary, University of London, London, E1 4NS, UK;(2) Observatoire de Paris, Place Jules Janssen, 92195 Meudon, France |
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| Abstract: | The Eddington mission was given full approval by the European Space Agency on the 23rd May 2002, with launch scheduled for 2007/8. Its
science objectives are stellar evolution and asteroseismology, and planet finding. In its current design it consists of 4
× 60 cm folded Schmidt telescopes, each with 6o × 6o field of view and its own CCD array camera. Eddington will spend 2 years primarily devoted to asteroseismology with 1–3 months on different target fields monitoring up to 50,000
stars per field, and 3 years continuously on a single field monitoring upwards of 100,000 stars for planet searching. The
asteroseismic goal is to be able to detect oscillations frequencies of stars with a precision 0.1–0.3 μHz, to probe their
interior structure and the study the physical processes that govern their evolution.
This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. |
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| Keywords: | space missions: Eddington stars: asteroseismology stellar evolution planets: planet finding earth like planets habitable planets |
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