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Database of Candidate Targets for the LIFE Mission
Franziska Menti, José A. Caballero, Mark C. Wyatt +11
We present the database of potential targets for the Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE), a space-based mid-infrared nulling interferometer mission proposed for the Voyage 2…
Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE). XIV. Finding terrestrial protoplanets in the galactic neighborhood
Lorenzo Cesario, Tim Lichtenberg, Eleonora Alei +62
The increased brightness temperature of young rocky protoplanets during their magma ocean epoch makes them potentially amenable to atmospheric characterization to distances from th…
Pursuing Truth: Improving Retrievals on Mid-Infrared Exo-Earth Spectra with Physically Motivated Water Abundance Profiles and Cloud Models
Björn S. Konrad, Sascha P. Quanz, Eleonora Alei +1
Atmospheric retrievals are widely used to constrain exoplanet properties from observed spectra. We investigate how the common nonphysical retrieval assumptions of vertically consta…
Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE): XIII. The Value of Combining Thermal Emission and Reflected Light for the Characterization of Earth Twins
E. Alei, S. P. Quanz, B. S. Konrad +9
Following the recommendations to NASA and ESA, the search for life on exoplanets will be a priority in the next decades. Two direct imaging space mission concepts are being develop…
Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE): XII. The Detectability of Capstone Biosignatures in the Mid-Infrared -- Sniffing Exoplanetary Laughing Gas and Methylated Halogens
Daniel Angerhausen, Daria Pidhorodetska, Michaela Leung +6
This study aims to identify exemplary science cases for observing NO, CHCl, and CHBr in exoplanet atmospheres at abundances consistent with biogenic production using a…