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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Habitable exoplanets
High-resolution spectroscopy
signatures
imager
extra-solar planets
Far future missions
Surface features
Exo-moons
Direct imaging
Author
J. Schneider
Observatoire de Paris-Meudon
A. Leger
University of Paris-Sud
M. Fridlund
European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESA ESTEC)
G. J. White
Open University
STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
C. Eiroa
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (UAM)
T. Henning
Max Planck Society
T. Herbst
Max Planck Society
H. Lammer
Institut fur Weltraumforschung
René Liseau
Chalmers, Department of Radio and Space Science, Radio Astronomy and Astrophysics
F. Paresce
Istituto nazionale di astrofisica (INAF)
A. Penny
Royal Observatory
STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
A. Quirrenbach
Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory
H. Rottgering
Leiden University
F. Selsis
University of Bordeaux
C. Beichman
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
W. Danchi
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
L. Kaltenegger
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
J. Lunine
University of Arizona
D. Stam
Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON)
G. Tinetti
University College London (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