Astrophysical: Astrobiology

  • Publication
    Searching for technosignatures in exoplanetary systems with current and future missions
    Technosignatures refer to observational manifestations of technology that could be detected through astronomical means. Most previous searches for...
  • Publication
    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...
  • Talk
    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...
  • Publication
    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...
  • Publication
    The Earth as a Distant Planet
    Not Available
  • Publication
    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...
  • Talk
    The Square Kilometre Array: At the Frontiers of Astronomy, Physics, and Astrobiology
    The Square Kilometre Array is intended to be the centimeter- and meter-wavelength telescope for the 21st Century. Originally proposed as the "hydrogen telescope...
  • Publication
    The Vanishing and Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations Project. I. USNO Objects Missing in Modern Sky Surveys and Follow-up Observations of a “Missing Star”
    In this paper we report the current status of a new research program. The primary goal of the “Vanishing and Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations”...
  • Publication
    Vegetation Signature in the Observed Globally Integrated Spectrum of Earth Considering Simultaneous Cloud Data: Applications for Extrasolar Planets
    A series of missions will be launched over the next few decades that will be designed to detect and characterize extrasolar planets around nearby stars. These...