Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE) - V. Diagnostic potential of a mid-infrared space interferometer for studying Earth analogs

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Table 2

Simulation parameters used in LIFEsim for the baseline analyses.

Parameter	Value
Detector quantum efficiency	0.7
Total instrument throughput	0.05
Minimum wavelength	4 μm
Maximum wavelength	18.5 μm
Spectral resolution	50
S/N^(a)	10
Interferometric baseline	10–100 m
Aperture diameter	2m
Exozodi level	3 × local zodiacal dust
Planet radius	1 R_⊕
Distance to the system	10 pc

Notes. See Paper I and Paper II for details. ^(a)This S/N is fixed at a wavelength of 11.2 μm and the S/N of all other spectral bins is computed via LIFEsim.

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