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Darwin is a cornerstone mission of the Horizons 2000+ program of the European Space Agency. It has the express purpose of carrying out the first direct search for terrestrial exoplanets, and to achieve unprecedented spatial resolution in the infrared wavelength region. The detection and study of terrestrial exoplanets promises to usher in a new era in science and will affect a broad spectrum of disciplines. Further, the time line for implementation of such an instrument is now likely to be of the close order of 10 years, leading to possible answers to one of mankind’s most fundamental questions in the second decade of the 21 st century. It has been found that in order to realize am interferometer in space in the next 10–15 years, it is necessary to prepare the way through a number of intermediary steps — both on the ground and in space. In this context, we here describe GENIE — a ground based nulling interferometry experiment to be implemented at the VLTI in a partnership between ESA and ESO.
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Fridlund, M., Gondoin, P. (2003). Genie — The Darwin Demonstrator. In: Garcia, P.J.V., Glindemann, A., Henning, T., Malbet, F. (eds) The Very Large Telescope Interferometer Challenges for the Future. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0157-0_9
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