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Planet-wide, Concentric Density Waves in Venus's Upper Atmosphere Revealed through Polarimetry?
Gourav Mahapatra, Michiel Rodenhuis, Frans Snik +3
We report observations of faint (), concentric, planet-wide rings in the polarized flux of sunlight that is reflected by Venus, obtained during a serendipitous, 36-minute…
From exo-Earths to exo-Venuses -- Flux and Polarization Signatures of Reflected Light
Gourav Mahapatra, Fouad Abiad, Loic Rossi +1
Terrestrial exoplanets in habitable zones are ubiquitous. It is, however, unknown which have Earth-like or Venus-like climates. Distinguishing different planet-types is crucial for…
Polarized Signatures of a Habitable World: Comparing Models of an Exoplanet Earth with Visible and Near-infrared Earthshine Spectra
Kenneth E. Gordon, Theodora Karalidi, Kimberly M. Bott +3
In the JWST, Extremely Large Telescopes, and LUVOIR era, we expect to characterize a number of potentially habitable Earth-like exoplanets. However, the characterization of these w…
Spectropolarimetry of life: airborne measurements from a hot air balloon
Willeke Mulder, C. H. Lucas Patty, Stefano Spadaccia +6
Does life exist outside our Solar System? A first step towards searching for life outside our Solar System is detecting life on Earth by using remote sensing applications. One powe…
Ocean signatures in the total flux and polarization spectra of Earth-like exoplanets
Victor J. H. Trees, Daphne M. Stam
Numerical simulations of starlight that is reflected by Earth-like exoplanets predict habitability signatures that can be searched for with future telescopes. We explore signatures…
Biosignatures of the Earth I. Airborne spectropolarimetric detection of photosynthetic life
C. H. Lucas Patty, Jonas G. Kühn, Petar H. Lambrev +10
Context. Homochirality is a generic and unique property of life on Earth and is considered a universal and agnostic biosignature. Homochirality induces fractional circular polariza…