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Solar Hegemony: M-Dwarfs Are Unlikely to Host Observers Such as Ourselves
David Kipping
With no firm evidence for life beyond our solar system, inferences about the population observers such as ourselves rests upon the Earth as a single input, at least for now. Whilst…
squishyplanet: Modeling Transits of Non-spherical Exoplanets in JAX
Ben Cassese, Justin Vega, Tiger Lu +3
While astronomers often assume that exoplanets are perfect spheres when analyzing observations, the subset of these distant worlds that are subject to strong tidal forces and/or ra…
Do SETI Optimists Have a Fine-Tuning Problem?
David Kipping, Geraint Lewis
In ecological systems, be it a petri dish or a galaxy, populations evolve from some initial value (say zero) up to a steady state equilibrium, when the mean number of births and de…
Deconstructing Alien Hunting
David Kipping, Jason Wright
The search for extraterrestrial (alien) life is one of the greatest scientific quests yet raises fundamental questions about just what we should be looking for and how. We approach…