SPICES: spectro-polarimetric imaging and characterization of exoplanetary systems.
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Boccaletti, Anthony
Schneider, Jean
Traub, Wes
Lagage, Pierre-Olivier
Stam, Daphne
Gratton, Raffaele
Trauger, John
Cahoy, Kerri
Snik, Frans
Baudoz, Pierre
Date Issued
October 2012
Publisher
Experimental Astronomy
Citation
Boccaletti, A., J. Schneider, W. Traub, P.-O. Lagage, D. Stam, R. Gratton, J. Trauger, K. Cahoy, F. Snik, R. Galicher, J.- M. Reess, D. Mawet, J.-C. Augereau, J. Patience, M. Kuchner, M. Wyatt, E. Pantin, A.-L. Maire, P. Baudoz, C. Verinaud, S. Ronayette, D. Dubreuil, M. Min, M. Rodenbuis, D. Mesa, R. Belikov, O. Guyon, and M. Tamura,“SPICES: Spectro- Polarimetric Imaging and Characterization of Exoplanetary Systems: From planetary disks to nearby Super Earths,” Experimental Astronomy, 34, 2, pp.355-384, doi: 10.1007/s10686-012-9290-5, 2012.
Abstract
SPICES (Spectro-Polarimetric Imaging and Characterization of Exoplanetary Systems) is a five-year M-class mission proposed to ESA Cosmic Vision. Its purpose is to image and characterize long-period extrasolar planets and circumstellar disks in the visible (450-900 nm) at a spectral resolution of about 40 using both spectroscopy and polarimetry. By 2020/2022, present and near-term instruments will have found several tens of planets that SPICES will be able to observe and study in detail. Equipped with a 1.5 m telescope, SPICES can preferentially access exoplanets located at several AUs (0.5-10 AU) from nearby stars (<25 pc) with masses ranging from a few Jupiter masses to Super Earths (∼2 Earth radii, ∼10 M) as well as circumstellar disks as faint as a few times the zodiacal light in the Solar System.
Subjects
Astrophysical spectropolarimetry
Imaging systems
Planetary systems
Telescopes
Nearby stars
Astrophysics
Exoplanets
High contrast imaging
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Space Telecommunications Astronomy and Radiation (STAR) Lab
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