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SIM-Light : Identifying Earth-like planet in the habitable zone

The official NASA-JPL web site of the Space Interferometry Mission (SIM) can be found at : http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/SIM/sim_AstroIndex.cfm

Sunday 16 November 2008 by Damien Ségransan


Documents

CNES presentation by A. Léger

This is a proposal to the french space Agency to participate to SIM-Light. The Document is in French

Science and Programmatic Cases for ESA Participation in the SIM-Lite Mission

This document is a white paper for an ESA Participation in the SIM-Lite Mission.

It has been written by :
- A. Léger (F)
- F. Malbet (F)
- M. Shao (USA)
- C. Beichman (USA)
- P. Schuller (F)
- R. Liseau (S)
- T. Henning (G)

Identifying nearby Earth-size planets in the Habitable Zone that can be Targets for Spectroscopic studies

This document describes and compare the different techniques that would allow to detect earth-like planet in the Habitable zone (mainly Radial Velocities and Astrometry)

Written by :
- A. Léger (F)
- F. Malbet (F)
- M. Shao (USA)
- C. Beichman (USA)
- P. Schuller (F)
- R. Liseau (S)
- T. Henning (G)