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.
@article{arxiv.0911.3974,
title = {Studies of Expolanets and Solar Systems with SPICA},
author = {Michihiro Takami and Motohide Tamura and Keigo Enya and Takafumi Ootsubo and Misato Fukagawa and Mitsuhiko Honda and Yoshiko Okamoto and Shigehisa Sako and Takuya Yamashita and Sunao Hasegawa and Hirokazu Kataza and Hideo Matsuhara and Takao Nakagawa and Javier R. Goicoechea and Kate Isaak and Bruce Swinyard},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0911.3974},
year = {2015}
}
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17 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, accepted for Advances in Space Research (conference proceeding of 37th COSPAR Scientific Assembly)