TY - GEN
T1 - SPICA Mid-infrared Instrument (SMI)
T2 - Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave
AU - Kaneda, Hidehiro
AU - Ishihara, Daisuke
AU - Oyabu, Shinki
AU - Yamagishi, Mitsuyoshi
AU - Wada, Takehiko
AU - Kawada, Mitsunobu
AU - Isobe, Naoki
AU - Asano, Kentaroh
AU - Suzuki, Toyoaki
AU - Nakagawa, Takao
AU - Matsuhara, Hideo
AU - Sakon, Itsuki
AU - Tsumura, Kohji
AU - Shibai, Hiroshi
AU - Matsuo, Taro
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
� 2016 SPIE.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - SMI (SPICA Mid-infrared Instrument) is one of the two focal-plane scientific instruments planned for new SPICA, and the Japanese instrument proposed and managed by a university consortium in Japan. SMI covers the wavelength range of 12 to 36 μm, using the following three spectroscopic channels with unprecedentedly high sensitivities: low-resolution spectroscopy (LRS; R = 50 - 120, 17 - 36 μm), mid-resolution spectroscopy (MRS; R = 1300 - 2300, 18 - 36 μm), and high-resolution spectroscopy (HRS; R = 28000, 12 - 18 μm). The key functions of these channels are high-speed dustband mapping with LRS, high-sensitivity multi-purpose spectral mapping with MRS, and high-resolution molecular-gas spectroscopy with HRS. This paper describes the technical concept and scientific capabilities of SMI.
AB - SMI (SPICA Mid-infrared Instrument) is one of the two focal-plane scientific instruments planned for new SPICA, and the Japanese instrument proposed and managed by a university consortium in Japan. SMI covers the wavelength range of 12 to 36 μm, using the following three spectroscopic channels with unprecedentedly high sensitivities: low-resolution spectroscopy (LRS; R = 50 - 120, 17 - 36 μm), mid-resolution spectroscopy (MRS; R = 1300 - 2300, 18 - 36 μm), and high-resolution spectroscopy (HRS; R = 28000, 12 - 18 μm). The key functions of these channels are high-speed dustband mapping with LRS, high-sensitivity multi-purpose spectral mapping with MRS, and high-resolution molecular-gas spectroscopy with HRS. This paper describes the technical concept and scientific capabilities of SMI.
KW - Cryogenic telescope
KW - Mid-infrared instrument
KW - SPICA
KW - Space infrared telescope
KW - Spectroscopy
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U2 - 10.1117/12.2232442
DO - 10.1117/12.2232442
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84991408275
T3 - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
BT - Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016
A2 - MacEwen, Howard A.
A2 - Lystrup, Makenzie
A2 - Fazio, Giovanni G.
PB - SPIE
Y2 - 26 June 2016 through 1 July 2016
ER -