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Detectability of Planetary Characteristics in Disk-Averaged Spectra. I: The Earth Model

Meadows, Victoria S.; Crisp, David; Bibring, Jean-Pierre +4 more

Over the next 2 decades, NASA and ESA are planning a series of space-based observatories to detect and characterize extrasolar planets. This first generation of observatories will not be able to spatially resolve the terrestrial planets detected. Instead, these planets will be characterized by disk-averaged spectroscopy. To assess the detectabilit…