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Paper I of the LIFE paper series accepted for publication
March 31, 2022
The first paper in the LIFE paper series was recently accepted for publication in A&A! Quanz et al. 2022 introduce the LIFE initiative and the motivation behind it and perform detection yield estimates for different scenarios and instrument parameters.
Paper III of the LIFE paper series accepted for publication in A&A
March 1, 2022
In Konrad et al. 2022, the LIFE team derived first constraints on the technical requirements for the LIFE telescope in wavelength coverage, spectral resolution, and signal-to-noise ratio.
Paper II of the LIFE paper series accepted for publication
March 1, 2022
In Dannert & Ottiger et al. 2022, the LIFE team describes the process of simulating a LIFE observation with the publicly available LIFEsim tool. We present our methods for signal simulation ( and the subsequent extraction of planets, finding that mid-IR nulling interferometry can indeed provide direct measurements of planetary radii, temperatures and astrometry.
LIFE in the media
A telescope fleet designed to study nearby worlds
[Astronomy] LIFE would use multiple satellites flying in formation to separate the faint thermal glow of rocky planets from the overwhelming light of their host stars.