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LIFE XII paper accepted in AJ: Sniffing Capstone Biosignatures in the MIR
January 17, 2024
LIFE paper XII - "The Detectability of Capstone Biosignatures in the Mid-Infrared -- Sniffing Exoplanetary Laughing Gas and Methylated Halogens", is accepted for publication in AJ and available on arXiv as of today. We hope that there is a…
LIFE XI paper accepted in A&A: Phase-space synthesis decomposition
August 21, 2023
In this paper, Matsuo et al. (arxiv link) propose a method for planet detection and characterization with LIFE, named "phase-space synthesis decomposition" (PSSD). PSSD focuses on the correlation of the planetary signal over the entire…
Observing known Exoplanets with LIFE: 10th LIFE paper accepted
August 21, 2023
Out of the 259 known exoplanets within 20 parsec, LIFE’s reference configuration can detect 212 of them. Of these, 38 LIFE-detectable planets orbit in the habitable zone of their host star, including 13 low-mass planets with Mp<5M⊕.
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.