Thursday, February 14, 2008, 12:30 pm, Pratt Conference Room
Infrared Astronomy: What Next?
Dr. Dimitra Rigopoulou (Oxford)
| I will present the scientific case for the new JAXA/ESA mission SPICA. The mission was recently approved by ESA Cosmic Vision 2015-2020 with Europe contributing one of the three focal plane instruments the far-infrared camera/spectrometer SAFARI. I will review the scientific case for SAFARI and discuss its specific advatnages for the exploration of the high-redshift Universe. |
