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Detecting Life-bearing Extra-solar Planets with Space Telescope | | Steven V. W. Beckwith
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7 Oct 2007 | | Abstract: | One of the promising methods to search for life on extra-solar planets
(exoplanets) is to detect life’s signatures in their atmospheres. Spectra of
exoplanet atmospheres at the modest resolution needed to search for oxygen,
carbon dioxide, water, and methane will demand large collecting areas and large
diameters to capture and isolate the light from planets in the habitable zones
around the stars. For telescopes using coronagraphs to isolate the light from
the planet, each doubling of telescope diameter will increase the available
sample of stars by an order of magnitude, indicating a high scientific return
if the technical difficulties of constructing very large space telescopes can
be overcome. For telescopes detecting atmospheric signatures of transiting
planets, the sample size increases only linearly with diameter, and the
available samples are probably too small to guarantee detection of life-bearing
planets. Using samples of nearby stars suitable for exoplanet searches, this
paper shows that the demands of searching for life with either technique will
require large telescopes, with diameters of order 10m or larger in space. | | Source: | arXiv, 0710.1444 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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