4 papers
A preliminary exploration of the effects of baseline length for the LIFE space mission
Jonah T. Hansen, Thomas Birbacher, Felix A. Dannert +7
By aiming to find and characterise dozens of habitable exoplanets through the technique of nulling interferometry, the LIFE space mission will produce transformational science. One…
Robust Data Interpretation for Perturbed Nulling Interferometers via Proper Handling of Correlated Errors
Philipp A. Huber, Felix A. Dannert, Romain Laugier +4
The detection and atmospheric characterization of potentially habitable, temperate terrestrial exoplanets using a space-based mid-infrared nulling interferometer is a major goal of…
Consequences of Non-Gaussian Instrumental Noise in Perturbed Nulling Interferometers
Felix A. Dannert, Philipp A. Huber, Thomas Birbacher +6
With the astrophysics community working towards the first observations and characterizations of Earth-like exoplanets, interest in space-based nulling interferometry has been renew…
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…