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Edinburgh Research Explorer Edinburgh Research Explorer Theia: Faint objects in motion or the new astrometry frontier Citation for published version: The Theia Collaboration, Boehm, C, Krone-Martins, A, Amorim, A, Anglada-Escude, G, Brandeker, A, Courbin, F, Ensslin, T, Falcao, A, Freese, K, Holl, B, Labadie, L, Leger, A, Malbet, F, Mamon, G, McArthur, B, Mora, A, Shao, M, Sozzetti, A, Spolyar, D, Villaver, E, Albertus, C, Bertone, S, Bouy, H, Boylan-Kolchin, M, Brown, A, Brown, W, Cardoso, V, Chemin, L, Claudi, R, Correia, ACM, Crosta, M, Crouzier, A, Cyr- Racine, F-Y, Damasso, M, da Silva, A, Davies, M, Das, P, Dayal, P, de Val-Borro, M, Diaferio, A, Erickcek, A, Fairbairn, M, Fortin, M, Fridlund, M, Garcia, P, Gnedin, O, Goobar, A, Gordo, P, Goullioud, R, Hambly, N, Hara, N, Hobbs, D, Hog, E, Holland, A, Ibata, R, Jordi, C, Klioner, S, Kopeikin, S, Lacroix, T, Laskar, J, Le Poncin-Lafitte, C, Luri, X, Majumdar, S, Makarov, V, Massey, R, Mennesson, B, Michalik, D, Moitinho de Almeida, A, Mourao, A, Moustakas, L, Murray, N, Muterspaugh, M, Oertel, M, Ostorero, L, Perez-Garcia, A, Platais, I, de Mora, JPI, Quirrenbach, A, Randall, L, Read, J, Regos, E, Rory, B, Rybicki, K, Scott, P, Schneider, J, Scholtz, J, Siebert, A, Tereno, I, Tomsick, J, Traub, W, Valluri, M, Walker, M, Walton, N, Watkins, L, White, G, Evans, DW, Wyrzykowski, L & Wyse, R 2017, Theia: Faint objects in motion or the new astrometry frontier.. <http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017arXiv170701348T> Link: Link to publication record in Edinburgh Research Explorer Document Version: Publisher's PDF, also known as Version of record General rights Copyright for the publications made accessible via the Edinburgh Research Explorer is retained by the author(s) and / or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing these publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. Take down policy The University of Edinburgh has made every reasonable effort to ensure that Edinburgh Research Explorer content complies with UK legislation. If you believe that the public display of this file breaches copyright please contact [email protected] providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. Download date: 24. Sep. 2021 Theia: Faint objects in motion or the new astrometry frontier The Theia Collaboration ∗ July 6, 2017 Abstract In the context of the ESA M5 (medium mission) call we proposed a new satellite mission, Theia, based on rel- ative astrometry and extreme precision to study the motion of very faint objects in the Universe. Theia is primarily designed to study the local dark matter properties, the existence of Earth-like exoplanets in our nearest star systems and the physics of compact objects. Furthermore, about 15 % of the mission time was dedicated to an open obser- vatory for the wider community to propose complementary science cases. With its unique metrology system and “point and stare” strategy, Theia’s precision would have reached the sub micro-arcsecond level. This is about 1000 times better than ESA/Gaia’s accuracy for the brightest objects and represents a factor 10-30 improvement for the faintest stars (depending on the exact observational program). In the version submitted to ESA, we proposed an optical (350-1000nm) on-axis TMA telescope. Due to ESA Technology readiness level, the camera’s focal plane would have been made of CCD detectors but we anticipated an upgrade with CMOS detectors. Photometric mea- surements would have been performed during slew time and stabilisation phases needed for reaching the required astrometric precision. Authors Management team: Céline Boehm (PI, Durham University - Ogden Centre, UK), Alberto Krone-Martins (co-PI, Universidade de Lisboa - CENTRA/SIM, Portugal) and, in alphabetical order, António Amorim (FCUL,CENTRA/SIM, Portugal), Guillem Anglada-Escudé (Queen Mary University of London, UK), Alexis Brandeker (Stockholm University, Sweden), Frederic Courbin (EPFL, Switzerland), Torsten Enßlin (MPA Garching, Germany), António Falcão (Uninova, Portugal), Katherine Freese (University of Michigan, USA & Stockholm University, Sweden), Berry Holl (Université de Genève, Switzerland), Lucas Labadie (Universität zu Köln, Germany), Alain Leger (IAS-CNRS, France), Fabien Malbet (Université de Grenoble, France), Gary Mamon (IAP, France), Barbara McArthur (Uni- versity of Texas at Austin, USA), Alcione Mora (Aurora Technology BV, Spain), Michael Shao (JPL/NASA, USA), Alessandro Sozzetti (INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino, Italy), Douglas Spolyar (Stockholm University, Sweden), Eva Villaver (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain), arXiv:1707.01348v1 [astro-ph.IM] 2 Jul 2017 Science team (alphabetical order) Conrado Albertus (Universidad de Granada, Spain), Stefano Bertone (University of Bern, Switzerland ), Hervé Bouy (CAB INTA CSIC, Spain), Michael Boylan-Kolchin (University of Texas, USA ), Anthony Brown (Durham University - Ippp, UK), Warren Brown (Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics, USA), Vitor Cardoso (CEN- TRA, IST - Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal), Laurent Chemin (INPE, Brasil), Riccardo Claudi (INAF Astronom- ical Observatoy of Padova, Italy), Alexandre C. M. Correia (CIDMA, University of Aveiro, Portugal), Mariateresa Crosta (INAF, Italy), Antoine Crouzier (Observatoire de Paris, France), Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine (Harvard Univer- sity, USA), Mario Damasso (INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino, Italy), António da Silva (IA - Universidade ∗[email protected]. To join the collaboration, see http://theia.phyip3.dur.ac.uk 1 de Lisboa, Portugal), Melvyn Davies (Lund University, Sweden), Payel Das (University of Oxford, UK), Pratika Dayal (Kapteyn, Netherlands), Miguel de Val-Borro (Princeton University, USA), Antonaldo Diaferio (University of Torino - Dept. of Physics, Italy), Adrienne Erickcek (University of North Carolina, USA), Malcolm Fairbairn (King’s College London, UK), Morgane Fortin (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Polish Academy of Sci- ences, Poland), Malcolm Fridlund (Leiden/Onsala, Netherlands/Sweden), Paulo Garcia (Universidade do Porto - CENTRA/SIM, Portugal), Oleg Gnedin (University of Michigan, USA), Ariel Goobar (Stockholm University, Swe- den), Paulo Gordo (Universidade de Lisboa - CENTRA/SIM, Portugal), Renaud Goullioud (JPL/NASA, USA), Nigel Hambly (University of Edinburgh, UK), Nathan Hara (IMCCE, Observatoire de Paris, France), David Hobbs (Lund University, Sweden), Erik Hog (Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark), Andrew Holland (Open University, UK), Rodrigo Ibata (Université de Strasbourg, France), Carme Jordi (University of Barcelona, ICCUB-IEEC, Spain), Sergei Klioner (Lohrmann Observatory, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany), Sergei Kopeikin (University of Mis- souri, USA), Thomas Lacroix (Institut Astrophysique de Paris, France), Jacques Laskar (IMCCE, Observatoire de Paris, France), Christophe Le Poncin-Lafitte (Observatoire de Paris Meudon, France), Xavier Luri (University of Barcelona, ICCUB-IEEC, Spain), Subhabrata Majumdar (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India), Valeri Makarov (US Naval Observatory, USA), Richard Massey (Durham University, UK), Bertrand Mennesson (NASA JPL, USA), Daniel Michalik (Lund University, Sweden), André Moitinho de Almeida (Universidade de Lisboa - CENTRA/SIM, Portugal), Ana Mourão (CENTRA, Instituto Superior Técnico - Universidade de Lisboa, Portu- gal), Leonidas Moustakas (JPL/Caltech, USA), Neil Murray (The Open University, UK), Matthew Muterspaugh (Tennessee State University, USA), Micaela Oertel (LUTH, CNRS/Observatoire de Paris, France), Luisa Ostorero (Department of Physics - University of Torino, Italy), Angeles Perez-Garcia (USAL, Spain), Imants Platais (Johns- Hopkins University, USA), Jordi Portell i de Mora (DAPCOM Data Services S.L., Spain), Andreas Quirrenbach (Universität Heidelberg, Germany), Lisa Randall (Harvard University, USA), Justin Read (University of Surrey, UK), Eniko Regos (Wigner Research Institute for Physics, Hungary), Barnes Rory (University of Washington, USA), Krzysztof Rybicki (Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory, Poland), Pat Scott (Imperial College London, UK), Jean Schneider (Observatoire de Paris Meudon, France), Jakub Scholtz (Harvard University, USA), Arnaud Siebert (Université de Strasbourg, France), Ismael Tereno (IA - Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal), John Tomsick (University of California Berkeley, USA), Wesley Traub (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA), Monica Val- luri (University of Michigan, USA), Matt Walker (Carnegie Mellon University, USA), Nicholas Walton (University of Cambridge, UK), Laura Watkins (Space Telescope Science Institute, USA), Glenn White (Open University & The Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK) Dafydd Wyn Evans (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK), Lukasz Wyrzykowski (Warsaw University, Poland), Rosemary Wyse (Johns Hopkins University, USA), Additional members of the collaboration (alphabetical order) Ummi Abbas (Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino, Italy), Jean-Michel Alimi (Observatoire de Paris Meudon, France), Martin Altmann (Astronomisches Recheninstitut, Germany), João Alves (University of Vienna, Aus- tria), Richard Anderson (Johns Hopkins University, USA), Frédéric Arenou (CNRS/GEPI, Observatoire de Paris, France), Coryn Bailer-Jones (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany), Carlton Baugh (Durham University, UK), Michael Biermann (ARI, Germany) Sergi Blanco-Cuaresma (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, USA), Aldo Stefano Bonomo (INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico
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