Large Interferometer For Exoplanets

Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE) is a project started in 2017 to develop the science, technology and a roadmap for a space mission to detect and characterize the atmospheres of dozens of warm, terrestrial extrasolar planets. The current plan is for a nulling interferometer operating in the mid-infrared consisting of several formation flying collector telescopes with a beam combiner spacecraft at their center.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

References
  1. https://www.life-space-mission.com/
  2. Atmospheric characterization of terrestrial exoplanets in the mid-infrared: biosignatures, habitability & diversity, Sascha P. Quanz et al.,7 Aug 2019
  3. Direct imaging of molten protoplanets in nearby young stellar associations, Irene Bonati et al., 18 Nov 2018
  4. Characterizing the atmosphere of Proxima b with a space-based mid-infrared nulling interferometer, D. Defrère et al., 26 Jul 2018
  5. Space-based infrared interferometry to study exoplanetary atmospheres, D. Defrère et al., 21 Dec 2018
  6. Simulating the Exoplanet Yield of a Space-based MIR Interferometer Based on Kepler Statistics, J. Kammerer, S. P. Quanz, 17 Oct 2017

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