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SPICA Collaboration

• SPICA European Team Website

• SPICA Collaboration Meeting
  • 4th Collaboration Meeting, 14-17 September 2020, Online Meeting, Program
  • 3rd Collaboration Meeting, 9-11 March 2020, at SRON, Program
  • 2nd Collaboration Meeting, 28-30 October 2019, at Paris, Program
    
  • 1st Collaboration Meeting, 02-04 April 2019, at SRON, Program

SPICA Instruments

SpicA FAR-infrared Instrument (SAFARI)	SPICA Mid-Infrared Instrument (SMI)	Magnetic field explorer with BOlometric Polarimeter (B-BOP)
European team led by SRON	International team led by Nagoya University	European team led by CEA
SAFARI homepage	SMI homepage	B-BOP homepage
SAFARI factsheet PDF file (v1.0, Sep/30/2016) Explanatory Note (v.0.951, PDF)	SMI factsheet PDF file (v13.1, Sep/21/2020)	B-BOP factsheet (v3.1, Jul/2020)
Representative papers "SPICA—A Large Cryogenic Infrared Space Telescope: Unveiling the Obscured Universe" P. Roelfsema et al., PASA, 35, e030 (2018)	Representative papers "SPICA mid-infrared instrument (SMI): conceptual design and feasibility studies" Kaneda et al. SPIE, 106980C (2018)	Representative papers "Probing the cold magnetized Universe with SPICA-POL (B-BOP)" P. André et al. PASA, 36, e029 (2019)

SPICA Papers

SPICA and Related Papers

List of SPICA Papers

SPICA White Papers 2017-2019

• "SPICA - a large cryogenic infrared space telescope Unveiling the obscured Universe",
  Roelfsema, P. R., et al., Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia (2018)
• "Galaxy Evolution Studies with the SPace IR Telescope for Cosmology and Astrophysics (SPICA): The Power of IR Spectroscopy",
  Spinoglio, L., et al., Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, Volume 34, id.e057 13 pp. (2017)
• "Feedback and Feeding in the Context of Galaxy Evolution with SPICA: Direct Characterisation of Molecular Outflows and Inflows",
  González-Alfonso, E., et al., Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, Volume 34, id.e054 17 pp. (2017)
• "SPICA and the Chemical Evolution of Galaxies: The Rise of Metals and Dust",
  Fernández-Ontiveros, J. A., et al., Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, Volume 34, id.e053 15 pp. (2017)
• "Tracing the Evolution of Dust Obscured Star Formation and Accretion Back to the Reionisation Epoch with SPICA",
  Gruppioni, C., et al., Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, Volume 34, id.e055 17 pp. (2017)
• "Probing the high-redshift universe with SPICA: Toward the epoch of reionisation and beyond",
  Egami, E. et al., Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, Volume 35, pp. (2018)
• "Unbiased Large Spectroscopic Surveys of Galaxies Selected by SPICA Using Dust Bands",
  Kaneda, H., et al., Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, Volume 34, id.e059 16 pp. (2017)
• "Probing the Baryon Cycle of Galaxies with SPICA Mid- and Far-Infrared Observations",
  van der Tak, F. F. S., et al., Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, Volume 35, id.e002 17 pp. (2018)

SPICA Conferences/Workshops

International Conferences (Since 2009)

• 2021.07.12 - 15
  50th International Conference on Environmental Systems (Online meeting)
• 2020.12.13 - 18
  SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation (Online meeting)
  Program
  • [Oral] "The joint infrared space observatory SPICA: unveiling the obscured universe" (P. R. Roelfsema et al.)
  • [Poster] "The 2020 SPICA telescope preliminary design and predicted performance" (J. Archer et al.)
  • [Oral] "Cryogenic system of the infrared space mission SPICA" (T. Nakagawa et al.)
  • [Oral] "Mechanical cooler system for the infrared space mission SPICA" (K. Shinozaki et al.)
  • [Poster] "SPICA Mid-infrared Instrument (SMI): The latest design and specifications" (T. Wada et al.)
  • [Poster] "The SAFARI grating spectrometer for SPICA: Extreme spectroscopic sensitivity in the FAR-IR" (P.P. Roelfsema et al.)
  • [Poster] "The 4K focal plane unit for SPICA's SAFARI far infrared instrument" (J. T. Redondo et al.)
  • [Poster] "The calibration source assembly for SPICA/SAFARI instrument" (S. Wang et al.)
  • [Poster] "Calibration strategy for the SPICA/SAFARI instrument" (R. F. Shipman et al.)
  • [Poster] "A far infrared spectrometer for SPICA mission: optical E2E of SAFARI" (M. Fernandez et al.)
  • [Poster] "Multicore processor based instrument control and data processing units design for the SPICA instruments" (Sebastiano Ligori et al.)
  • [Poster] "B-BOP: the SPICA imaging polarimeter" (V. Revéret et al.)
  • [Poster] "Transmittance measurement of low/high-resistivity of CdZnTe at cryogenic temperature for material selection of the immersion grating of SPICA SMI" (H. Maeshima et al.)
  • [Oral] "Development of a cryogenic far-infrared post-dispersed polarizing Fourier transform spectrometer: a demonstrator for the SPICA SAFARI instrument" (D. Naylor et al.)
  • [Oral] "Noise and cross-talk measurements of SAFARI FDM readout" (P. Khosropanah et al.)
  • [Oral] "Optical and electrical transient response of ultra-low-noise far-infrared transition edge sensors for the SAFARI instrument on SPICA" (E. A. Williams et al.)
  • [Poster] "Modelling technique for few-moded far-infrared grating spectrometers" (B. N. R. Lap et al.)
  • [Oral] "Ultra-low noise TES bolometer arrays for the US SAFARI contribution" (R. C. O'Brient et al.)
  • [Poster] "Design of a novel cryogenic stiffness-compensated reactionless scan mechanism for the Fourier transform spectrometer of SPICA SAFARI instrument" (A. Cournoyer et al.)
  • [Oral] "An optical test facility for the B-BOP bolometers of the SPICA mission" (Camille Gennet et al.)
• 2020. 9. 14 - 17
  SPICA Collaboration Meeting (Online meeting)
  Program
  • SPICA collaboration meeting progam (PDF)
• 2020. 3. 9 - 4
  SPICA Collaboration Meeting (SRON, Groningen)
  Program
  • SPICA collaboration meeting progam (PDF)
• 2019. 10. 28 - 30
  SPICA Collaboration Meeting (CEA Saclay, Paris)
  Program
  • SPICA collaboration meeting progam (PDF)
• 2019. 7.28 - 8. 2
  AOGS 2019 (Singapore)
  Program
  • PS09-D4-AM1-310-006: "Evolution of Dust Revealed by High-sensitivity IR Spectroscopy with SPICA" (I. Yamamura)
  
  
• 2019. 5.26 - 30
  JpGU Meeting 2019 (Makuhari Messe)
• 2019. 5.20 - 23 SPICA Conference 2019
  "Exploring the Infrared Universe: The Promise of SPICA" (Island of Crete, Greece)
• 2019. 4. 2 - 4
  SPICA Collaboration Meeting (SRON, Groningen)
  Program
  • SPICA collaboration meeting progam (PDF)
• 2019. 3. 4 - 8
  Dusting the Universe (U of Arizona, Tucson, USA)
  
• 2018.12. 3
  SPICA-UK Meeting (Burlington House, UK)
  Presentation
  • SPICA in Japan (T. Onaka)
  • See workshop page
• Before 2018
  
  
  • 2018.11.14 - 16
    Workshop on Interstellar Matter 2018 (Hokudai, Japan)
    Presentation
    • ALMA observations of layered structures due to CO selective dissociation in the ρ Ophiuchi A plane - parallel PDR (M. Yamagishi)
  • 2018.11.12 - 16
    IAU Symposium 341 PanModel2018 (Osaka University, Japan)
    Presentation
    • Large Infrared Telescope in Space (H. Shibai)
  • 2018.10.04
    B-BOP (POL) Science Meeting (Paris, France)
  • 2018. 9.24 - 9. 26
    SAFARI Consortium Meeting (INTA in Madrid, Spain)
  • 2018. 8.20 - 31
    IAU General Assembly (Vienna, Austria)
    Presentation
    • (IAUS 345) Origins: From the Protosun to the First Steps of Life
      "Tracing the gas, dust and ice evolution in planetary systems with SPICA", Marc Audard et al.
  • 2018. 6.11 - 15
    CPHDUST Cosmic Dust 2018 (Copenhagen, Denmark)
    Presentation
    • "A systematic study of dust and star formation in early-type galaxies with AKARI", Kokusho
  • 2018. 6.10 - 15
    SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation (Austin, USA)
    Presentation
    • (10698-9) "SPICA: a joint infrared space observatory", Roelfsema et al.
    • (10698-10) "Thermal and mechanical design of SPICA payload module", Ogawa et al.
    • (10698-11) "SPICA mid-infrared instrument (SMI): conceptual design and feasibility studies", Kaneda et al.
  • 2018. 5.30 - 6. 1
    SPICA/SAFARI Consortium Meeting (Groningen, Netherlands)
    
  • 2017.12.7-9
    Future Exploration of Star and Planet Formation with Subaru　(ASIAA, Taiwan)
    Presentation
    • "Next-generation infrared astronomy mission SPICA for the study of protoplanetary discs", Nakagawa
  • October 17-20, 2017
    AKARI 2017 (The University of Tokoy, Japan)
  • September 20-21, 2017
    SPICA/SAFARI Consortium Meeting (Rome, Italy)
  • March 20-22, 2017
    SPICA/SAFARI Consortium Meeting (Groningen, Netherlands)
  • July 3-7, 2017
    APRIM2017 (Taipei)
  • July 17-21, 2017
    Low Temperature Detectors 2017 (Kurume, Japan)
  • March 1-2, 2017
    SPICA/SAFARI Consortium Meeting (Heidelberg, Germany)
  • July 10-14, 2016
    International Conference on Environmental Systems (Vienna, Austria)
  • June 28, 2016 - July 1, 2016:
    SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation (Edinburgh, Scotland)
  • April 13-14, 2016:
    SAFARI Consortium meeting April 13 and 14 2016 (Groningen, Netherland)
    Presentation
    • "SPICA status in Japan", T. Yamada
    • "SPICA - M5 mission configuration and development plan", T. Yamada and T. Onaka
    • "SMI - M5 instrument configuration and development plan", T. Wada
    • "View from Japan", H. Shibai
  • April 4-5, 2016:
    Italian SPICA Workshop 2016 (INAF Headquarters, Rome)
    Presentation
    • "The SPICA Mid-IR Instrument SMI", H. Kaneda
  • March 2016:
    SPICA Spain National Workshop (Tenerife, Spain)
  • March 23, 2016:
    SPICA Sweden National Workshop (Stockholm, Sweden)
  • March 15-17, 2016:
    2016 Conference on Big Data from Space - BiDS'16 (Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain)
  • February 1-5, 2016:
    European Space Technology Harmonisation Mapping Meeting 2016 (Noordwijk, Netherlands)
  • February 1, 2016:
    SPICA Netherlands National Workshop (Netherlands)
  • January 22, 2016:
    SPICA England National Workshop (London, UK)
  • January 14, 2016:
    SPICA France National Workshop (Paris, France)
  • July 13-17, 2015:
    Pathways 2015: Pathways towards habitable planets (Bern, Switzerland)
    Presentation
    • "SPICA mission" (H. Shibai)
  • March 10-11, 2015:
    LSTWS2015: The 3rd Workshop on Large Aperture Sub/mm Telescope in the ALMA Era (NAOJ, Tokyo)
    Presentation
    • "SPICA: Large Infrared Telescope in Space", H. Shibai
  • August 19-22, 2014:
    APRIM 2014 - 12th Asia-Pacific LAU Regional Meeting - (Daejeon, Republic of Korea)
    Presentation
    • "The next-generation infrared astronomy mission SPICA under the new framework", T. Nakagawa
  • August 6, 2014:
    The 40th COSPAR Scientific Assembly (Moscow, Russia)
    Presentation
    • "The next-generation infrared astronomy mission SPICA: Entering a New Phase", H. Matsuhara
  • July 9-11, 2014:
    The Universe In The Light Of Akari And Synergy With Future Large Space Telescopes (Oxford, UK)
    Presentations
    • "The next-generation infrared space mission SPICA in a new framework", T. Nakagawa
    • "Towards the next generation of far-infrared spectrometers", B. Swinyard
  • July 6-11, 2014:
    Origins 2014 (Nara, Japan)
    Presentation
    • "SPICA: Space Infrared Telescope Project of Japan", H. Shibai
  • June 2-6, 2014:
    GNC 2014: 9th International ESA Conference on Guidance, Navigation & ontrol System (Oporto, Portugal)
    Presentation
    • "SPICA MICRO-VIBRATION CONTROL SYSTEM DESIGN FOR PRECISION POINTING STABILITY", S. Mitani
  • May 21-23, 2014:
    European SPICA Workshop (Leiden, Netherlands)
    Presentations
  • November 18, 2013:
    The Life Cycle of Dust (Taipei)
    Presentation
    • "Dust Science Capability of the Next Generation Infrared Astronomy Mission SPICA", H. Matsuhara
  • November 11-15, 2013:
    The 1st COSPAR Symposium (Bangkok, Thailand)
    Presentation
    • "The next-generation space infrared astronomy mission", T. Nakagawa
  • October 18, 2013:
    The Universe Explored by Herschel (Noordwijk, Netherlands)
    Presentation
    • "Beyond　Herschel: The next-generation space infrared astronomy mission", T. Nakagawa
  • October 14-18, 2013:
    9th East Asian Meeting on Astronomy
    Presentation
    • "The next-generation Infrared Astronomy Mission SPICA", H. Matsuhara
  • August 11, 2013:
    Window on the Universe (Quy Nhon, Vietnam)
    Presentation
    • "The next-generation space infrared astronomy mission", H. Matsuhara
  • June 18-21, 2013:
    From Exoplanets and Distant Galaxies: SPICA's New Window on the Cool Universe (Tokyo, Japan)
    Proceedings
  • July 6-8, 2009:
    SPICA joint European/Japanese Workshop (Oxford)
    Proceedings
  
  


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