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Darwin -— an experimental astronomy mission to search for extrasolar planets
- Creators
- Cockell, Charles S.
- Herbst, Tom
- Léger, Alain
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Absil, O.
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Beichman, Charles
- Benz, Willy
- Brack, Andre
- Chazelas, Bruno
- Chelli, Alain
- Cottin, Hervé
- Coudé-du-Foresto, Vincent
- Danchi, William
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Defrère, Denis
- den-Herder, Jan-Willem
- Eiroa, Carlos
- Fridlund, Malcolm
- Henning, Thomas
- Johnston, Kenneth
- Kaltenegger, Lisa
- Labadie, Lucas
- Lammer, Helmut
- Launhardt, Ralf
- Lawson, Peter
- Lay, Oliver P.
- Liseau, René
- Martin, Stefan R.
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Mawet, Dimitri
- Mourard, Denis
- Moutou, Claire
- Mugnier, Laurent
- Paresce, Francesco
- Quirrenbach, Andreas
- Rabbia, Yves
- Rottgering, Huub J. A.
- Rouan, Daniel
- Santos, Nuno
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Selsis, Franck
- Serabyn, Eugene
- Westall, Frances
- White, Glenn
- Ollivier, Marc
- Bordé, Pascale
Abstract
As a response to ESA call for mission concepts for its Cosmic Vision 2015–2025 plan, we propose a mission called Darwin. Its primary goal is the study of terrestrial extrasolar planets and the search for life on them. In this paper, we describe different characteristics of the instrument.
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© 2009 Springer. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. 26 October 2007 Accepted: 6 August 2008. Published online: 10 September 2008.Attached Files
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