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

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astro-ph.EP2025

Is ozone a reliable proxy for molecular oxygen? III. The impact of CH on the O-O relationship for Earth-like atmospheres

Thea Kozakis, João M. Mendonça, Lars A. Buchhave +1

In the search for life in the Universe, molecular oxygen (O) combined with a reducing species, such as methane (CH), is considered a promising disequilibrium biosignature.…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 2 cited

Is Ozone a Reliable Proxy for Molecular Oxygen? II. The impact of NO on the O-O relationship for Earth-like atmospheres

Thea Kozakis, João M. Mendonça, Lars A. Buchhave +1

Molecular oxygen (O2) will be an important molecule in the search for biosignatures in terrestrial planetary atmospheres in the coming decades. In particular, O2 combined with a re…

astro-ph.EP2024

Modeling Atmospheric Lines By the Exoplanet Community (MALBEC) version 1.0: A CUISINES radiative transfer intercomparison project

Geronimo L. Villanueva, Thomas J. Fauchez, Vincent Kofman +15

Radiative transfer (RT) models are critical in the interpretation of exoplanetary spectra, in simulating exoplanet climates and when designing the specifications of future flagship…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 35 cited

Is ozone a reliable proxy for molecular oxygen? I. The O2-O3 relationship for Earth-like atmospheres

Thea Kozakis, João M. Mendonça, Lars A. Buchhave

Molecular oxygen (O2) paired with a reducing gas is regarded as a promising biosignature pair for the atmospheric characterization of terrestrial exoplanets. In circumstances when…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 12 cited

H-dominated Atmosphere as an Indicator of Second-generation Rocky White Dwarf Exoplanets

Zifan Lin, Sara Seager, Sukrit Ranjan +2

Following the discovery of the first exoplanet candidate transiting a white dwarf (WD), a "white dwarf opportunity" for characterizing the atmospheres of terrestrial exoplanets aro…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 47 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…