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Table 6

Required observation time in days.

ObservationTime [days]
Nominal Case Optimized Case
R S/N 1m 2m 3.5m 1m 2m 3.5m
35 15 771 74 15 922 64 9
50 10 490 47 10 589 41 6

Notes. Observation times for an Earth-twin at 10 pc for the two combinations of R and S/N discussed in Sect. 5.2 and three different aperture diameters (1 m, 2 m, and 3.5 m). We conservatively assume a total instrument throughput of 5% (cf. Dannert et al. 2022).

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