1. Studies of Expolanets and Solar Systems with SPICA
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Takami, Michihiro, Tamura, Motohide, Enya, Keigo, Ootsubo, Takafumi, Fukagawa, Misato, Honda, Mitsuhiko, Okamoto, Yoshiko, Sako, Shigehisa, Yamashita, Takuya, Hasegawa, Sunao, Kataza, Hirokazu, Matsuhara, Hideo, Nakagawa, Takao, Goicoechea, Javier R., Isaak, Kate, and Swinyard, Bruce
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Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics - Abstract
The SPace Infrared telescope for Cosmology and Astrophysics (SPICA) is a proposed mid-to-far infrared (4-200 um) astronomy mission, scheduled for launch in 2017. A single, 3.5m aperture telescope would provide superior image quality at 5-200 um, and its very cold (~5 K) instrumentation would provide superior sensitivity in the 25-200 um wavelength regimes. This would provide a breakthrough opportunity for studies of exoplanets, protoplanetary and debris disk, and small solar system bodies. This paper summarizes the potential scientific impacts for the proposed instrumentation., Comment: 17 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, accepted for Advances in Space Research (conference proceeding of 37th COSPAR Scientific Assembly)
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- 2009
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