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most citedThe White Dwarf Opportunity: Robust Detections of Molecules in Earth-like Exoplanet Atmospheres with the James Webb Space Telescope

47 citations · 60 across the 2 of their papers we have counts for

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astro-ph.EP202047 cited

The White Dwarf Opportunity: Robust Detections of Molecules in Earth-like Exoplanet Atmospheres with the James Webb Space Telescope

Lisa Kaltenegger, Ryan J. MacDonald, Thea Kozakis +4

The near-term search for life beyond the solar system currently focuses on transiting planets orbiting small M dwarfs, and the challenges of detecting signs of life in their atmosp…

astro-ph.EP2020

High-resolution Spectra and Biosignatures of Earth-like Planets Transiting White Dwarfs

Thea Kozakis, Zifan Lin, Lisa Kaltenegger

With the first observations of debris disks as well as proposed planets around white dwarfs, the question of how rocky planets around such stellar remnants can be characterized and…

astro-ph.EP2020

High resolution Spectra of Earth-Like Planets Orbiting Red Giant Host Stars

Thea Kozakis, Lisa Kaltenegger

In the near future we will have ground- and space-based telescopes that are designed to observe and characterize Earth-like planets. While attention is focused on exoplanets orbiti…

astro-ph.EP201913 cited

Atmospheres and UV Environments of Earth-like Planets Throughout Post-Main Sequence Evolution

Thea Kozakis, Lisa Kaltenegger

During the post-main sequence phase of stellar evolution the orbital distance of the habitable zone, which allows for liquid surface water on terrestrial planets, moves out past th…

astro-ph.EP2018

UV Surface Environments and Atmospheres of Earth-like Planets Orbiting White Dwarfs

Thea Kozakis, Lisa Kaltenegger, D. W. Hoard

An Earth-like exoplanet orbiting a white dwarf would be exposed to different UV environments than Earth, influencing both its atmospheric photochemistry and UV surface environment.…