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SPICES: spectro-polarimetric imaging and characterization of exoplanetary systems

From planetary disks to nearby Super Earths

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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.

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  1. This in particular allows us to reduce the number of deformable mirrors (see Section 3.5).

  2. as of December 2010

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We would like to thanks H. Boithias, E. Sein at ASTRIUM France for their technical support and A. Laurens, O. Lamarle at CNES for both financial and technical support during this ESA Cosmic Vision proposal study. We are also grateful to the referee for relevant comments which helped to improve this paper.

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  1. LESIA, Paris Observatory, Meudon, France

    Anthony Boccaletti, Pierre Baudoz, Raphael Galicher, Jean-Michel Reess & Anne-Lise Maire

  2. LUTH, Paris Observatory, Meudon, France

    Jean Schneider

  3. NASA-JPL, Pasadena, CA, USA

    Wes Traub, John Trauger & Dimitri Mawet

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    Pierre-Olivier Lagage, Eric Pantin, Samuel Ronayette & Didier Dubreuil

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    Daphne Stam

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    Raffaele Gratton

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    Kerri Cahoy & Russ Belikov

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  9. IPAG, Grenoble, France

    Jean-Charles Augereau & Christophe Vérinaud

  10. University of Exeter, Exeter, UK

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    Marc Kuchner

  12. University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

    Mark Wyatt

  13. University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Michiel Min & Michiel Rodenhuis

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  15. University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

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  17. NAOJ, Tokyo, Japan

    Motohide Tamura

  18. Hokkaido University, Hokkaido, Japan

    Naoshi Murakami

  19. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Ingrid Mary Beerer

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The SPICES Team: France: A. Boccaletti (Obs. Paris), J. Schneider (Obs. Paris), P. Baudoz (Obs. Paris), J.-M. Reess (Obs. Paris), R. Galicher (Obs. Paris), A.-L. Maire (Obs. Paris), M. Mas (Obs. Paris), D. Rouan (Obs. Paris), G. Perrin (Obs. Paris), S. Lacour (Obs. Paris), P. Thébault (Obs. Paris), N. Nguyen (Obs. Paris), L. Ibgui (Obs. Paris), F. Arenou (Obs. Paris), J. F. Lestrade (Obs. Paris), M. N’Diaye (LAM), K. Dohlen (LAM), M. Ferrari (LAM), E. Hugot (LAM), J.-L. Beuzit (IPAG), A.-M. Lagrange (IPAG), C. Vérinaud (IPAG), P. Martinez (IPAG), M. Barthelemey (IPAG), J. Augereau (IPAG), S. Ronayette (CEA), D. Dubreuil (CEA), P.-O. Lagage (CEA), E. Pantin (CEA), L. Mugnier (ONERA) – The Netherlands: D. Stam (SRON), F. Snik (U. Utrech), M. Min (U. Utrech), M. Rodenhuis (U. Utrech), C. Keller (U. Utrech) – USA: W. Traub (NASA JPL), J. Trauger (NASA JPL), D. Mawet (NASA JPL), R. Belikov (NASA Ames), K. Cahoy (NASA Ames), M. Marley (NASA Ames), M. Kuchner (GSFC), O. Guyon (U. Arizona/ Subaru), P. Kalas (UC Berkeley), K. Stapelfeldt (NASA JPL), R. Brown (STScI), S. Kane (Caltech), I. M. Beerer (MIT) – Italy: R. Gratton (Obs. Padova), S. Desidera (Obs. Padova), D. Mesa (Obs. Padova), A. Sozzetti (Obs. Torino), A. Mura (IFSI Roma)– Spain: E. L. Martin (INTA CSIC), H. Bouy (INTA CSIC) – UK: J. Patience (U. Exeter), M. Wyatt (U. Cambridge), A. Allan (U. Exeter), R. King (U. Exeter), A. Vigan (U. Exeter), L. Churcher (U. Cambridge) – Switzerland: S. Udry (Obs. Geneva) – Japan: M. Tamura (NAOJ), N. Murakami (U. Hokkaido), T. Matsuo (NAOJ), J. Nishikawa (NAOJ) – Belgium: C. Hanot (U. Liège) – Germany: S. Wolf (U. Kiel), L. Kaltenegger (MPIA), H. Klahr (MPIA) – Austria: E. Pilat-Lohinger (Obs. Vienna).

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Boccaletti, A., Schneider, J., Traub, W. et al. SPICES: spectro-polarimetric imaging and characterization of exoplanetary systems. Exp Astron 34, 355–384 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10686-012-9290-5

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