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ESA Voyage 2050 White Paper: Detecting life outside our solar system with a large high-contrast-imaging mission

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arxiv 1908.01803 v1 pith:AGABEOG4 submitted 2019-08-05 astro-ph.EP

ESA Voyage 2050 White Paper: Detecting life outside our solar system with a large high-contrast-imaging mission

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In this white paper, we recommend the European Space Agency plays a proactive role in developing a global collaborative effort to construct a large high-contrast imaging space telescope, e.g. as currently under study by NASA. Such a mission will be needed to characterize a sizable sample of temperate Earth-like planets in the habitable zones of nearby Sun-like stars and to search for extraterrestrial biological activity. We provide an overview of relevant European expertise, and advocate ESA to start a technology development program towards detecting life outside the Solar system.

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