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SPICES: A Mission Concept to Characterize Long Period Planets from Giants to Super-Earths
- Source :
- IAU Symposium, Formation, detection, and characterization of extrasolar habitable planets, IAU Symposium 293, Formation, detection, and characterization of extrasolar habitable planets, IAU Symposium 293, Aug 2012, Beijing, China, Nanjing, China. pp.429-434, ⟨10.1017/S1743921313013331⟩
- Publication Year :
- 2014
- Publisher :
- Cambridge University Press, 2014.
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Abstract
- SPICES (Spectro-Polarimetric Imaging and Characterization of Exoplanetary Systems) was proposed in 2010 for a five-year M-class mission in the context of ESA Cosmic Vision. Its purpose is to image and characterize long-period extrasolar planets located at several AUs (0.5-10 AU) from nearby stars (⊕), possibly habitable. In addition, circumstellar disks as faint as a few times the zodiacal light in the Solar System can be studied. SPICES is based on a 1.5-m off-axis telescope and can perform spectro-polarimetric measurements in the visible (450 - 900 nm) at a spectral resolution of about 40. This paper summarizes the top science program and the choices made to conceive the instrument. The performance is illustrated for a few emblematic cases.
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- IAU Symposium, Formation, detection, and characterization of extrasolar habitable planets, IAU Symposium 293, Formation, detection, and characterization of extrasolar habitable planets, IAU Symposium 293, Aug 2012, Beijing, China, Nanjing, China. pp.429-434, ⟨10.1017/S1743921313013331⟩
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....a013b1fc4ec682ab292b719f78d857d7