ESA Voyage 2050 White Paper: Detecting life outside our solar system with a large high-contrast-imaging mission

ESA Voyage 2050 White Paper: Detecting life outside our solar system with a large high-contrast-imaging mission

In this white paper, we recommend the European Space Agency plays a proactive role in developing a global collaborative effort to construct a large high-contrast imaging space telescope, e.g. as currently under study by NASA. Such a mission will be needed to characterize a sizable sample of temperat...

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Veröffentlicht in:arXiv.org 2019-08
Hauptverfasser: Snellen, Ignas, Albrecht, Simon, Anglada-Escude, Guillem, Baraffe, Isabelle, Baudoz, Pierre, Benz, Willy, Beuzit, Jean-Luc, Biller, Beth, Birkby, Jayne, Boccaletti, Anthony, Roy van Boekel, de Boer, Jos, Brogi, Matteo, Buchhave, Lars, Carone, Ludmila, Mark, Claire, Claudi, Riccardo, Brice-Olivier Demory, Jean-Michel Desert, Desidera, Silvano, Gaudi, Scott, Gratton, Raffaele, Gillon, Michael, John Lee Grenfell, Guyon, Olivier, Henning, Thomas, Hinkley, Sasha, Huby, Elsa, Janson, Markus, Helling, Christiane, Heng, Kevin, Kasper, Markus, Keller, Christoph, Kenworthy, Matthew, Krause, Oliver, Kreidberg, Laura, Nikku Madhusudhan, Lagrange, Anne-Marie, Launhardt, Ralf, Lenton, Tim, Lopez-Puertas, Manuel, Maire, Anne-Lise, Mayne, Nathan, Meadows, Victoria, Mennesson, Bertrand, Micela, Giuseppina, Yamila Miguel, Milli, Julien, Min, Michiel, de Mooij, Ernst, Mouillet, David, N'Diaye, Mamadou, D'Orazi, Valentina, Palle, Enric, Pagano, Isabella, Piotto, Giampaolo, Queloz, Didier, Rauer, Heike, Ribas, Ignasi, Ruane, Garreth, Selsis, Franck, Snik, Frans, Sozzetti, Alessandro, Stam, Daphne, Stark, Christopher, Vigan, Arthur, de Visser, Pieter
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Sprache:eng
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Biological activity
Extrasolar planets
Planet detection
Solar system
Space telescopes
Terrestrial planets
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Zusammenfassung:In this white paper, we recommend the European Space Agency plays a proactive role in developing a global collaborative effort to construct a large high-contrast imaging space telescope, e.g. as currently under study by NASA. Such a mission will be needed to characterize a sizable sample of temperate Earth-like planets in the habitable zones of nearby Sun-like stars and to search for extraterrestrial biological activity. We provide an overview of relevant European expertise, and advocate ESA to start a technology development program towards detecting life outside the Solar system.
ISSN:2331-8422