SPICES: spectro-polarimetric imaging and characterization of exoplanetary systems
- Boccaletti, Anthony
- Schneider, Jean
- Traub, Wes
- Lagage, Pierre-Olivier
- Stam, Daphne
- Gratton, Raffaele
- Trauger, John
- Cahoy, Kerri
- Snik, Frans
- Baudoz, Pierre
- Galicher, Raphael
- Reess, Jean-Michel
- Mawet, Dimitri
- Augereau, Jean-Charles
- Patience, Jenny
- Kuchner, Marc J.
- Wyatt, Mark
- Pantin, Eric
- Maire, Anne-Lise
- Vérinaud, Christophe
- Ronayette, Samuel
- Dubreuil, Didier
- Min, Michiel
- Rodenhuis, Michiel
- Mesa, Dino
- Belikov, Russ
- Guyon, Olivier
- Tamura, Motohide
- Murakami, Naoshi
- Beerer, Ingrid Mary
DOIAbstract
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[subscript ⊕]) as well as circumste...
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