Probing the capability of future direct imaging missions to spectrally constrain the frequency of Earth-like planets

Jade H. Checlair, Geronimo L. Villanueva, Benjamin P. C. Hayworth +6

A critical question in astrobiology is whether exoEarth candidates (EECs) are Earth-like, in that they originate life that progressively oxygenates their atmospheres similarly to E…