Comets may have played an important role in depositing the organic matter that, between 4,6 and 3,6 billion of years ago, allowed the formation of life on the...
Photosynthetic Fluorescence from Earthlike Planets around Sunlike and Cool Stars
Remote sensing of the Earth has demonstrated that photosynthesis is traceable as the vegetation red edge (VRE), which is a steep rise in the reflection spectrum...
Reconstructing the Photometric Light Curves of Earth as a Planet along Its History
By utilizing satellite-based estimations of the distribution of clouds, we have studied Earth's large-scale cloudiness behavior according to latitude and...
Short-duration high-amplitude flares detected on the M dwarf star KIC 5474065
Using data obtained during the RATS-Kepler project, we identified one short-duration flare in a 1 h sequence of ground-based photometry of the dwarf star KIC...
Small bodies and big impacts: comets, asteroids, and the origin of water and organics on Earth
The role of asteroids and comet impacts on the origin of Earth’s water and organic molecules is reviewed. Earth is believed to have formed dry, and magma oceans...
Spectroscopy of the Earth Observed as a Distant Planet
Through ground-based observations of the Earth's spectrum from California, satellite observations of clouds, and an atmospheric radiative transfer code, we have...
The GTC exoplanet transit spectroscopy survey. III. No asymmetries in the transit of CoRoT-29b
Context. The launch of the exoplanet space missions obtaining exquisite photometry from space has resulted in the discovery of thousands of planetary systems...