[FPSPACE] Planetary Science Goals for the Spitzer Warm Era

[LARRY KLAES]

Planetary Science Goals for the Spitzer Warm Era

Authors: Carey Lisse, Mark Sykes, David Trilling, Josh Emery, Yanga 
Fernandez, Heidi Hammel, Bidushi Bhattacharya, Erin Ryan, John Stansberry

(Submitted on 15 Nov 2007)

Abstract: The overarching goal of planetary astronomy is to deduce how the 
present collection of objects found in our Solar System were formed from the 
original material present in the proto-solar nebula. As over two hundred 
exo-planetary systems are now known, and multitudes more are expected, the 
Solar System represents the closest and best system which we can study, and 
the only one in which we can clearly resolve individual bodies other than 
planets.

In this White Paper we demonstrate how to use Spitzer Space Telescope 
InfraRed Array Camera Channels 1 and 2 (3.6 and 4.5 um) imaging photometry 
with large dedicated surveys to advance our knowledge of Solar System 
formation and evolution. There are a number of vital, key projects to be 
pursued using dedicated large programs that have not been pursued during the 
five years of Spitzer cold operations. We present a number of the largest 
and most important projects here; more will certainly be proposed once the 
warm era has begun, including important observations of newly discovered 
objects.

Comments: 29 pages, 17 figures, to appear in “Science Opportunities for the 
Warm Spitzer Mission”

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

Cite as: arXiv:0711.2352v1 [astro-ph]

Submission history

From: Carey Lisse [view email]

[v1] Thu, 15 Nov 2007 07:28:16 GMT (1993kb)

http://arxiv.org/abs/0711.2352