The Darwin mission: Search for extra-solar planets

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1114-1122

  Kaltenegger, L ^a,b   Fridlund, M ^a  

^a EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomarkers; Darwin; Darwin targets stars; Extrasolar planet search; Nulling interferometry; TPF I

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; BIOMARKERS; EARTH (PLANET); INTERFEROMETERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPACE RESEARCH; SPACECRAFT;

DARWIN; DARWIN TARGET STARS; EXTRASOLAR PLANET SEARCH; NULLING INTERFEROMETRY; TPF-1;

SOLAR SYSTEM;

EID: 27844533090     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2005.05.061     Document Type: Article

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