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A Machine Learning Based Search for Lunar Anomalies
Cameron Kelahan, Daniel Angerhausen, Adam Lesnikowski +1
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has been collecting high-resolution images (at around 0.5-2 meters per pixel linearly with its Narrow Angle Camera) of the Moon since 2009, a…
The Dyson Minds 2025 Workshop: SETI around Black Holes
Olivia Curtis, Van Hunter Adams, Daniel Angerhausen +9
The Dyson Minds 2025 Workshop, held at the Center for Brains, Minds & Machines at MIT and organized by Penn State, MIT, and The Ultraintelligence Foundation, brought together resea…
Machine Learning as a Transformative Tool for (Exo-)Planetary Science
J. Davoult, V. T. Bickel, C. Haslebacher +11
The exploration of planetary bodies in our Solar system and beyond relies on the processing and interpretation of large, spatio-temporally inconsistent, and heterogeneous datasets.…
Probing thermal gradients of habitable-zone rocky planets as an anti-indicator of a global surface ocean using mid-infrared direct imaging
Yuka Fujii, Daniel Angerhausen, Taro Matsuo +1
Future direct-imaging missions such as the Large Interferometer for Exoplanets (LIFE) aim to observe thermal emission from potentially habitable planets to characterize their surfa…
Observing spatial and temporal variations in the atmospheric chemistry of rocky exoplanets: prospects for mid-infrared spectroscopy
Marrick Braam, Daniel Angerhausen
Future telescopes such as the Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE) will enable mid-infrared characterisation of the atmospheres of nearby rocky exoplanets. Whilst 4D spatial…
Detecting Atmospheric CO2 Trends as Population-Level Signatures for Long-Term Stable Water Oceans and Biotic Activity on Temperate Terrestrial Exoplanets
Janina Hansen, Daniel Angerhausen, Sascha P. Quanz +6
Identifying key observables is essential for enhancing our knowledge of exoplanet habitability and biospheres, as well as improving future mission capabilities. While currently cha…
What if we find nothing? Bayesian analysis of the statistical information of null results in future exoplanet habitability and biosignature surveys
Daniel Angerhausen, Amedeo Balbi, Andjelka B. Kovačević +2
Future telescopes will survey temperate, terrestrial exoplanets to estimate the frequency of habitable () or inhabited () planets. This study aims…
Photobombing for the Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE). A new criterion for target confusion and application to a MIR rotating nulling interferometer
Drinor Cacaj, Daniel Angerhausen, Prabal Saxena +4
One of the primary objectives in modern astronomy is to discover and study planets with characteristics similar to Earth. This pursuit involves analyzing the spectra of exoplanets…
Examining the Potential for Methyl Halide Accumulation and Detectability in Possible Hycean-Type Atmospheres
Michaela Leung, Shang-Min Tsai, Edward W Schwieterman +2
Some sub-Neptune planets may host habitable conditions; for example "Hycean" worlds with H2 envelopes over liquid water oceans can maintain potentially hospitable pressures and tem…
Flow Matching for Atmospheric Retrieval of Exoplanets: Where Reliability meets Adaptive Noise Levels
Timothy D. Gebhard, Jonas Wildberger, Maximilian Dax +4
Inferring atmospheric properties of exoplanets from observed spectra is key to understanding their formation, evolution, and habitability. Since traditional Bayesian approaches to…
Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE): XIII. The Value of Combining Thermal Emission and Reflected Light for the Characterization of Earth Twins
E. Alei, S. P. Quanz, B. S. Konrad +9
Following the recommendations to NASA and ESA, the search for life on exoplanets will be a priority in the next decades. Two direct imaging space mission concepts are being develop…
Artificial Greenhouse Gases as Exoplanet Technosignatures
Edward W. Schwieterman, Thomas J. Fauchez, Jacob Haqq-Misra +6
Atmospheric pollutants such as CFCs and NO have been proposed as potential remotely detectable atmospheric technosignature gases. Here we investigate the potential for artifi…
Automated Discovery of Anomalous Features in Ultra-Large Planetary Remote Sensing Datasets using Variational Autoencoders
Adam Lesnikowski, Valentin T. Bickel, Daniel Angerhausen
The NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has returned petabytes of lunar high spatial resolution surface imagery over the past decade, impractical for humans to fully review man…
Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE): XII. The Detectability of Capstone Biosignatures in the Mid-Infrared -- Sniffing Exoplanetary Laughing Gas and Methylated Halogens
Daniel Angerhausen, Daria Pidhorodetska, Michaela Leung +6
This study aims to identify exemplary science cases for observing NO, CHCl, and CHBr in exoplanet atmospheres at abundances consistent with biogenic production using a…
Inferring Atmospheric Properties of Exoplanets with Flow Matching and Neural Importance Sampling
Timothy D. Gebhard, Jonas Wildberger, Maximilian Dax +3
Atmospheric retrievals (AR) characterize exoplanets by estimating atmospheric parameters from observed light spectra, typically by framing the task as a Bayesian inference problem.…
Parameterizing pressure-temperature profiles of exoplanet atmospheres with neural networks
Timothy D. Gebhard, Daniel Angerhausen, Björn S. Konrad +3
Atmospheric retrievals (AR) of exoplanets typically rely on a combination of a Bayesian inference technique and a forward simulator to estimate atmospheric properties from an obser…
PyATMOS: A Scalable Grid of Hypothetical Planetary Atmospheres
Aditya Chopra, Aaron C Bell, William Fawcett +7
Cloud computing offers an opportunity to run compute-resource intensive climate models at scale by parallelising model runs such that datasets useful to the exoplanet community can…
Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE). X. Detectability of currently known exoplanets and synergies with future IR/O/UV reflected-starlight imaging missions
Óscar Carrión-González, Jens Kammerer, Daniel Angerhausen +10
The next generation of space-based observatories will characterize the atmospheres of low-mass, temperate exoplanets with the direct-imaging technique. This will be a major step fo…
Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE): IX. Assessing the Impact of Clouds on Atmospheric Retrievals at Mid-Infrared Wavelengths with a Venus-Twin Exoplanet
B. S. Konrad, E. Alei, S. P. Quanz +10
The Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE) initiative aims to develop a space based mid-infrared (MIR) nulling interferometer to measure the thermal emission spectra of tempera…
Imaging of exocomets with infrared interferometry
Markus Janson, Jayshil Patel, Simon C. Ringqvist +6
Active comets have been detected in several exoplanetary systems, although so far only indirectly, when the dust or gas in the extended coma has transited in front of the stellar d…
Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE): VIII. Where is the phosphine? Observing exoplanetary PH3 with a space based MIR nulling interferometer
D. Angerhausen, M. Ottiger, F. Dannert +9
Phosphine could be a key molecule in the understanding of exotic chemistry happening in (exo)planetary atmospheres. While it has been detected in the Solar System's giant planets,…
Atmospheric retrievals for LIFE and other future space missions: the importance of mitigating systematic effects
Eleonora Alei, Björn S. Konrad, Paul Mollière +4
Atmospheric retrieval studies are essential to determine the science requirements for future generation missions, such as the Large Interferometer for Exoplanets (LIFE). The use of…
Searching for technosignatures in exoplanetary systems with current and future missions
Jacob Haqq-Misra, Edward W. Schwieterman, Hector Socas-Navarro +9
Technosignatures refer to observational manifestations of technology that could be detected through astronomical means. Most previous searches for technosignatures have focused on…
Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE): V. Diagnostic potential of a mid-infrared space-interferometer for studying Earth analogs
Eleonora Alei, Björn S. Konrad, Daniel Angerhausen +6
An important future goal in exoplanetology is to detect and characterize potentially habitable planets. Using nulling interferometry, LIFE will allow us to constrain the radius and…