3 papers
astro-ph.EP2026
Atmospheric Supply of Hydrogen Cyanide Is Not the Rate-limiting Step for Prebiotic Chemistry across Rocky Exoplanets
Gergely Friss, Paul I. Palmer, Marrick Braam +1
Hydrogen cyanide (HCN) is crucial for the RNA World hypothesis, forming biomolecules essential for early life. Life likely emerged around 4 billion years ago during the early Arche…
astro-ph.EP2026
Hydrocarbon complexity and photochemical shielding of prebiotic feedstock molecules in exoplanet atmospheres
Marrick Braam, Ellery Gopaoco, Shang-Min Tsai +4
The potential of prebiotic chemistry to propagate on an exoplanet fundamentally depends on whether the atmospheric conditions can facilitate the production of prebiotic feedstock m…
astro-ph.IM2023
GRBAlpha: the smallest astrophysical space observatory -- Part 1: Detector design, system description and satellite operations
András Pál, Masanori Ohno, László Mészáros +42
Aims. Since launched on 2021 March 22, the 1U-sized CubeSat GRBAlpha operates and collects scientific data on high-energy transients, making it the smallest astrophysical space obs…