AbstractWe report results of a recently-completed pre-formulation phase study of SPIRIT, a candidate NASA Origins Probe mission. SPIRIT is a spatial and spectral interferometer with an operating wavelength range 25–400μm. SPIRIT will provide sub-arcsecond resolution images and spectra with resolution R=3000 in a 1′ field of view to accomplish three primary scientific objectives: (1) learn how planetary systems form from protostellar disks, and how they acquire their inhomogeneous composition; (2) characterize the family of extrasolar planetary systems by imaging the structure in debris disks to understand how and where planets of different types form; and (3) learn how high-redshift galaxies formed and merged to form the present-day population of galaxies. Observations with SPIRIT will be complementary to those of the James Webb Space Telescope and the ground-based Atacama Large Millimeter Array. All three observatories could be operational contemporaneously.


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    Titel :

    The space infrared interferometric telescope (SPIRIT): High-resolution imaging and spectroscopy in the far-infrared


    Beteiligte:
    Leisawitz, David (Autor:in) / Baker, Charles (Autor:in) / Barger, Amy (Autor:in) / Benford, Dominic (Autor:in) / Blain, Andrew (Autor:in) / Boyle, Rob (Autor:in) / Broderick, Richard (Autor:in) / Budinoff, Jason (Autor:in) / Carpenter, John (Autor:in) / Caverly, Richard (Autor:in)

    Erschienen in:

    Advances in Space Research ; 40 , 5 ; 689-703


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2007-05-26


    Format / Umfang :

    15 pages




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch





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