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The Case and Context for Atmospheric Methane as an Exoplanet Biosignature
Maggie A. Thompson, Joshua Krissansen-Totton, Nicholas Wogan +2
Methane has been proposed as an exoplanet biosignature. Imminent observations with the James Webb Space Telescope may enable methane detections on potentially habitable exoplanets,…
Understanding planetary context to enable life detection on exoplanets and test the Copernican principle
Joshua Krissansen-Totton, Maggie Thompson, Max L. Galloway +1
The search for life on exoplanets is motivated by the universal ways in which life could modify its planetary environment. Atmospheric gases such as oxygen and methane are promisin…
Composition of Terrestrial Exoplanet Atmospheres from Meteorite Outgassing Experiments
Maggie A. Thompson, Myriam Telus, Laura Schaefer +3
Terrestrial exoplanets likely form initial atmospheres through outgassing during and after accretion, although there is currently no first-principles understanding of how to connec…
Studying the Evolution of Warm Dust Encircling BD +20 307 Using SOFIA
Maggie A. Thompson, Alycia J. Weinberger, Luke Keller +2
The small class of known stars with unusually warm, dusty debris disks is a key sample to probe in order to understand cascade models and extreme collisions that likely lead to the…