most citedVegetation's Red Edge: A Possible Spectroscopic Biosignature of Extraterrestrial Plants

348 citations

5 papers

astro-ph2005

The Evolving Structure of Galactic Disks

Hugo Martel, Chris Brook, Sean McGee +2

Observations suggest that the structural parameters of disk galaxies have not changed greatly since redshift 1. We examine whether these observations are consistent with a cosmolog…

astro-ph2005348 cited

Vegetation's Red Edge: A Possible Spectroscopic Biosignature of Extraterrestrial Plants

Sara Seager, Edwin L. Turner, Justin Schafer +1

Earth's deciduous plants have a sharp order-of-magnitude increase in leaf reflectance between approximately 700 and 750 nm wavelength. This strong reflectance of Earth's vegetation…

astro-ph2004

Classification and Characterization of Objects from GALEX and SDSS surveys

Luciana Bianchi, M. Seibert, W. Zheng +22

We use the GALEX (Galaxy Evolution Explorer) Medium Imaging Survey (MIS) and All-Sky Imaging Survey (AIS) data available in the first internal release, matched to the SDSS catalogs…

astro-ph2004

Chandra X-ray Observations of Newly Discovered, z ~ 1 Clusters from the Red-Sequence Cluster Survey

Amalia Hicks, Erica Ellingson, Mark Bautz +3

Observational studies of cluster evolution over moderate redshift ranges (to z ~ 1) are a powerful tool for constraining cosmological parameters, yet a comprehensive knowledge of t…

astro-ph20041 cited

The Composition of the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy and Implications for Nucleosynthesis and Chemical Evolution

Andrew McWilliam, Tammy A. Smecker-Hane

We outline the results of a study of the chemical composition of 14 stars in the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy (Sgr dSph). For the Sgr dSph stars with [Fe/H]>-1 the abundance…