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Swinyard, Bruce; Nakagawa, Takao; Merken, Patrick; Royer, Pierre; Souverijns, Tim; Vandenbussche, Bart; Waelkens, Christoffel; Davis, Peter; Di Francesco, James; Halpern, Mark; Houde, Martin; Johnstone, Doug; Joncas, Gilles; Naylor, David; Plume, Rene; Scott, Douglas; Abergel, A.; Bensammar, S.; Braine, J.; Buat, V.; Burgarella, D.; Cais, Ph.; Dole, H.; Duband, L.; Elbaz, D.; Gerin, M.; Giard, M.; Goicoechea, J.; Joblin, C.; Jones, A.; Kneib, J. P.; Lagache, G.; Madden, S.; Pons, R.; Pajot, F.; Rambaud, D.; Ravera, L.; Ristorcelli, I.; Rodriguez, L.; Vives, S.; Zavagno, A.; Geis, Norbert; Krause, Oliver; Lutz, Dieter; Poglitsch, Albrecht; Raab, Walfried; Stegmaier, Jutta; Sturm, Eckhard; Tuffs, Richard; Lee, Hyung Mok; Koo, Bon-Chul; Im, Myungshin; Pak, Soojong; Han, Wonyong; Park, Jang-Hyun; Nam, Uk-Won; Jin, Ho; Lee, Dae-Hee; Yuk, In-Soo; Lee, Sungho; Aikawa, Yuri; Arimoto, Nobuo; Doi, Yasuo; Enya, Keigo; Fukagawa, Misato; Furusho, Reiko; Hasegawa, Sunao; Hayashi, Masahiko; Honda Kanagawa, Mitsuhiko; Ida, Shigeru; Imanishi; Masatoshi; Inutsuka, Shu-ichiro; Izumiura, Hideyuki; Kamaya, Hideyuki; Kaneda, Hidehiro; Kasuga, Toshihiro; Kataza, Hirokazu; Kawabata, Koji; Kawada, Mitsunobu; Kawakita, Hideyo; Kii, Tsuneo; Koda, Jin; Kodama, Tadayuki; Kokubo, Eiichiro; Komatsu,, Keiji; Matsuhara, Hideo; Matsumoto, Toshio; Matsuura, Shuji; Miyata, Takashi; Miyata, Murakam, Hiroshi; Nagata, Hirohisa; Nagata, Tetsuya; Nakajima, Tadashi; Naoto, Kobayashi; Nishi, Ryoichi; Noda, Atsushi; Okamoto, Atsushi; Okamoto, Yoshiko K.; Omukai, Kazuyuki et al.
Bibliographical reference
Experimental Astronomy, Volume 23, Issue 1, pp.193-219
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2009
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Description
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.