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Darwin -— an experimental astronomy mission to search for extrasolar planets

  • 1. ROR icon The Open University
  • 2. ROR icon Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale
  • 3. ROR icon California Institute of Technology
  • 4. ROR icon University of Bern
  • 5. ROR icon Centre de biophysique moléculaire
  • 6. ROR icon Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques
  • 7. ROR icon Netherlands Institute for Space Research
  • 8. ROR icon Autonomous University of Madrid
  • 9. ROR icon European Space Research and Technology Centre
  • 10. ROR icon United States Naval Observatory
  • 11. ROR icon Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
  • 12. ROR icon Space Research Institute
  • 13. ROR icon Jet Propulsion Lab
  • 14. ROR icon Chalmers University of Technology
  • 15. ROR icon Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur
  • 16. ROR icon Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille
  • 17. ROR icon National Institute for Astrophysics
  • 18. ROR icon Leiden University
  • 19. ROR icon University of Porto
  • 20. ROR icon University of Lyon System
  • 21. ROR icon 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.

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