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X-WR-CALNAME: IAC Talks: Open Astronomy Seminars
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CREATED:2018-06-12T12:30:00+01:00
X-WR-CALDESC: IAC Talks upcomming talks
SUMMARY:SPICA: A Cryogenic Infrared Telescope for ESA's Next Medium-Class S
 cience Mission (M5)
DESCRIPTION:SPICA: A Cryogenic Infrared Telescope for ESA's Next Medium-Cla
 ss Science Mission (M5)\nIsmael Pérez Fournon, Juan Antonio Fernandez Ont
 iveros\n\nIn 2016, an international consortium led by SRON (Netherlands) i
 n close collaboration with Japan (JAXA) and with important Spanish partici
 pation (CAB, INTA and IAC/ULL) submitted the SPICA (SPace Infrared Telesco
 pe for Cosmology and Astrophysics) proposal to ESA as part of the fifth ca
 ll for medium-class missions (M5) in the Cosmic Vision program. A total of
  25 proposals competed for the M5 budget of 550 million euro. Together wit
 h two other missions, THESEUS and EnVision, SPICA is now selected for the 
 final round, in which three parallel detailed studies will determine the b
 est proposal. ESA is expected to select in 2021 its M5 mission, that shoul
 d be launched around 2030. SPICA has been designed to be extremely sensiti
 ve to infrared radiation, much more than previous space infrared missions 
 operating in the mid- and far-IR. In this talk we will review the current 
 status of SPICA and its instruments and describe the main science goals: t
 he processes that regulate the formation and evolution of galaxies and the
  formation of stars and planetary systems. In particular, we will discuss 
 how mid- to far-IR spectroscopic observations with SPICA could be exploite
 d to understand key aspects in the chemical evolution of galaxies, such as
  the assembly of nearby galaxies based on the spatial distribution of heav
 y element abundances, the global content of metals in galaxies reaching th
 e knee of the luminosity function up to z ∼ 3, and the dust compositio
 n of galaxies at high-z. Possible synergies with facilities available in t
 he late 2020s will be also discussed."
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