Oral Presentation

The current status of SPICA Mid-infrared Instrument (SMI)

Author(s): Hidehiro Kaneda, Daisuke Ishihara, Shinki Oyabu (Nagoya Univ.), Takehiko Wada, Naoki Isobe, Hideo Matsuhara, Takao Nakagawa (ISAS/JAXA), and SMI consortium

Presenter: Hidehiro Kaneda (Nagoya Univ.)

SMI (SPICA Mid-infrared Instrument) is one of the three focal-plane science instruments for SPICA. SMI is the Japanese-led instrument to be developed in collaboration with Taiwan. SMI covers the wavelength range from 12 to 36 microns with 4 separate channels: the low-resolution (R = 50-120) spectroscopy function for 17-36 microns, the broad-band (R = 5) imaging function at 34 microns, the mid-resolution (R = 1300-2300) spectroscopy function for 18-36 microns, and the high-resolution (R = 28000) spectroscopy function for 12-18 microns. In this presentation, we show the current status of the development of SMI.