The Far Future of Exoplanet Direct Characterization
Journal article, 2010
We describe future steps in the direct characterization of habitable exoplanets subsequent to medium and large mission projects currently underway and investigate the benefits of spectroscopic and direct imaging approaches. We show that, after third- and fourth-generation missions have been conducted over the course of the next 100 years, a significant amount of time will lapse before we will have the capability to observe directly the morphology of extrasolar organisms.
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Surface features
extra-solar planets
imager
Far future missions
High-resolution spectroscopy
Direct imaging
Exo-moons
Habitable exoplanets
signatures
Author
J. Schneider
Observatoire de Paris-Meudon
A. Leger
Universite Paris-Sud XI
M. Fridlund
ESTEC - European Space Research and Technology Centre
G. J. White
Open University
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
C. Eiroa
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
T. Henning
Max Planck Institut fur Astronomie
T. Herbst
Max Planck Institut fur Astronomie
H. Lammer
Institut fur Weltraumforschung
René Liseau
Chalmers, Department of Radio and Space Science, Radio Astronomy and Astrophysics
F. Paresce
Istituto Nazionale Di Astrofisica, Rome
A. Penny
Royal Observatory
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
A. Quirrenbach
Landessternwarte Heidelberg
H. Rottgering
Leiden Observatory Research Institute
F. Selsis
Universite de Bordeaux
C. Beichman
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
W. Danchi
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
L. Kaltenegger
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
J. Lunine
University of Arizona
D. Stam
SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research
G. Tinetti
UCL
Astrobiology
1531-1074 (ISSN)
Vol. 10 1 121-126Subject Categories (SSIF 2011)
Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
Roots
Basic sciences
DOI
10.1089/ast.2009.0371