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Oct 2002

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002esasp.514...31f&link_type=abstract

In: Earth-like planets and moons. Proceedings of the 36th ESLAB Symposium, 3 - 8 June 2002, ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands. E

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Space Missions: Infrared Interferometers

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The Infra Red Space Interferometer Darwin is an integral part of ESA's Cosmic Vision 2020 plan, intended for a launch towards the middle of next decade. It has been the subject of a feasibility study and is now undergoing technological development. The scientific scope is aimed towards developing a system that could carry out the search for, and characterisation of Earth-like planets orbiting other stars. A secondary objective is to carry out imaging of astrophysical objects with unprecedented spatial resolution. The implementation of Darwin is based on the new technique of "nulling interferometry", in the mid-IR and becomes the culmination of a decade of technology- and science precursor missions. Darwin is also foreseen to be carried out in an international context.

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