SPICES: Spectro-polarimetric imaging and characterization of exoplanetary systems: From planetary disks to nearby Super Earths

  • Anthony Boccaletti
  • , Jean Schneider
  • , Wes Traub
  • , Pierre Olivier Lagage
  • , Daphne Stam
  • , Raffaele Gratton
  • , John Trauger
  • , Kerri Cahoy
  • , Frans Snik
  • , Pierre Baudoz
  • , Raphael Galicher
  • , Jean Michel Reess
  • , Dimitri Mawet
  • , Jean Charles Augereau
  • , Jenny Patience
  • , Marc Kuchner
  • , Mark Wyatt
  • , Eric Pantin
  • , Anne Lise Maire
  • , Christophe Vérinaud
  • Samuel Ronayette, Didier Dubreuil, Michiel Min, Michiel Rodenhuis, Dino Mesa, Russ Belikov, Olivier Guyon, Motohide Tamura, Naoshi Murakami, Ingrid Mary Beerer

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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.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)355-384
Number of pages30
JournalExperimental Astronomy
Volume34
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 2012
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Exoplanets
  • High contrast imaging

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Space and Planetary Science

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