@article{0d1cb1cc87a142608d023e9a1571b860,
title = "The space infrared telescope for cosmology and astrophysics: SPICA A joint mission between JAXA and ESA",
abstract = "The Space Infrared telescope for Cosmology and Astrophysics (SPICA) is planned to be the next space astronomy mission observing in the infrared. The mission is planned to be launched in 2017 and will feature a 3.5 m telescope cooled to <5 K through the use of mechanical coolers. These coolers will also cool the focal plane instruments thus avoiding the use of consumables and giving the mission a long lifetime. SPICA's large, cold aperture will provide a two order of magnitude sensitivity advantage over current far infrared facilities (>30 microns wavelength). We describe the scientific advances that will be made possible by this large increase in sensitivity and give details of the mission, spacecraft and focal plane conceptual design.",
keywords = "Infrared, Space missions",
author = "{SPICA Consortium} and Bruce Swinyard and Takao Nakagawa and Patrick Merken and Pierre Royer and Tim Souverijns and Bart Vandenbussche and Christoffel Waelkens and Peter Davis and {Di Francesco}, James and Mark Halpern and Martin Houde and Doug Johnstone and Gilles Joncas and David Naylor and Rene Plume and Douglas Scott and A. Abergel and S. Bensammar and J. Braine and V. Buat and D. Burgarella and Ph Cais and H. Dole and L. Duband and D. Elbaz and M. Gerin and M. Giard and J. Goicoechea and C. Joblin and A. Jones and Kneib, {J. P.} and G. Lagache and S. Madden and R. Pons and F. Pajot and D. Rambaud and L. Ravera and I. Ristorcelli and L. Rodriguez and S. Vives and A. Zavagno and Norbert Geis and Oliver Krause and Dieter Lutz and Albrecht Poglitsch and Walfried Raab and Jutta Stegmaier and Eckhard Sturm and Richard Tuffs and Phillip Mauskopf",
year = "2009",
month = mar,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1007/s10686-008-9090-0",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "23",
pages = "193--219",
journal = "Experimental Astronomy",
issn = "0922-6435",
publisher = "Springer Netherlands",
number = "1",
}