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Darwin -— an experimental astronomy mission to search for extrasolar planets
Creators
- Cockell, Charles S.1
- Herbst, Tom
- Léger, Alain2
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Absil, O.
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Beichman, Charles3
- Benz, Willy4
- Brack, Andre5
- Chazelas, Bruno2
- Chelli, Alain
- Cottin, Hervé6
- Coudé-du-Foresto, Vincent
- Danchi, William
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Defrère, Denis
- den-Herder, Jan-Willem7
- Eiroa, Carlos8
- Fridlund, Malcolm9
- Henning, Thomas
- Johnston, Kenneth10
- Kaltenegger, Lisa11
- Labadie, Lucas
- Lammer, Helmut12
- Launhardt, Ralf
- Lawson, Peter13
- Lay, Oliver P.13
- Liseau, René14
- Martin, Stefan R.13
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Mawet, Dimitri13
- Mourard, Denis15
- Moutou, Claire16
- Mugnier, Laurent
- Paresce, Francesco17
- Quirrenbach, Andreas
- Rabbia, Yves15
- Rottgering, Huub J. A.18
- Rouan, Daniel
- Santos, Nuno19
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Selsis, Franck20
- Serabyn, Eugene13
- Westall, Frances5
- White, Glenn1, 21
- Ollivier, Marc2
- Bordé, Pascale2
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The Open University
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Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale
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California Institute of Technology
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University of Bern
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Centre de biophysique moléculaire
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Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques
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Netherlands Institute for Space Research
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Autonomous University of Madrid
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European Space Research and Technology Centre
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United States Naval Observatory
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Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
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Space Research Institute
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Jet Propulsion Lab
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Chalmers University of Technology
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Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur
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Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille
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National Institute for Astrophysics
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Leiden University
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University of Porto
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University of Lyon System
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Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
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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