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most citedExoplanet Biosignatures: A Review of Remotely Detectable Signs of Life

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astro-ph.SR2021★ 67 cited

The Mega-MUSCLES Spectral Energy Distribution Of TRAPPIST-1

David J. Wilson, Cynthia S. Froning, Girish M. Duvvuri +19

We present a 5A-100um Spectral Energy Distribution (SED) of the ultracool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1, obtained as part of the Mega-MUSCLES Treasury Survey. The SED combines ultraviolet…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 50 cited

Reconstructing the Extreme Ultraviolet Emission of Cool Dwarfs Using Differential Emission Measure Polynomials

Girish M. Duvvuri, J. Sebastian Pineda, Zachory K. Berta-Thompson +16

Characterizing the atmospheres of planets orbiting M dwarfs requires understanding the spectral energy distributions of M dwarfs over planetary lifetimes. Surveys like MUSCLES, HAZ…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 31 cited

Estimating the Ultraviolet Emission of M dwarfs with Exoplanets from Ca II and H

Katherine Melbourne, Allison Youngblood, Kevin France +29

M dwarf stars are excellent candidates around which to search for exoplanets, including temperate, Earth-sized planets. To evaluate the photochemistry of the planetary atmosphere,…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 47 cited

The relative emission from chromospheres and coronae: dependence on spectral type and age

Jeffrey L. Linsky, Brian E. Wood, Allison Youngblood +12

Extreme-ultraviolet and X-ray emissions from stellar coronae drive mass loss from exoplanet atmospheres, and ultraviolet emission from stellar chromospheres drives photo-chemistry…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 1 cited

A Hot Ultraviolet Flare on the M Dwarf Star GJ 674

C. S. Froning, A. Kowalski, K. France +10

As part of the Mega MUSCLES Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Treasury program, we obtained time-series ultraviolet spectroscopy of the M2.5V star, GJ~674. During the FUV monitoring obs…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 153 cited

The MUSCLES Treasury Survey. V. FUV Flares on Active and Inactive M Dwarfs

R. O. Parke Loyd, Kevin France, Allison Youngblood +10

M dwarf stars are known for their vigorous flaring. This flaring could impact the climate of orbiting planets, making it important to characterize M dwarf flares at the short wavel…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 123 cited

The MUSCLES Treasury Survey IV: Scaling Relations for Ultraviolet, Ca II K, and Energetic Particle Fluxes from M Dwarfs

Allison Youngblood, Kevin France, R. O. Parke Loyd +18

Characterizing the UV spectral energy distribution (SED) of an exoplanet host star is critically important for assessing its planet's potential habitability, particularly for M dwa…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 232 cited

The MUSCLES Treasury Survey III: X-ray to Infrared Spectra of 11 M and K Stars Hosting Planets

R. O. Parke Loyd, Kevin France, Allison Youngblood +8

We present a catalog of panchromatic spectral energy distributions (SEDs) for 7 M and 4 K dwarf stars that span X-ray to infrared wavelengths (5 Å - 5.5 μm). These SEDs are composi…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 255 cited

The MUSCLES Treasury Survey II: Intrinsic Lyman Alpha and Extreme Ultraviolet Spectra of K and M Dwarfs with Exoplanets

Allison Youngblood, Kevin France, R. O. Parke Loyd +9

The ultraviolet (UV) spectral energy distributions of low-mass (K- and M-type) stars play a critical role in the heating and chemistry of exoplanet atmospheres, but are not observa…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 406 cited

The MUSCLES Treasury Survey I: Motivation and Overview

Kevin France, R. O. Parke Loyd, Allison Youngblood +18

Ground- and space-based planet searches employing radial velocity techniques and transit photometry have detected thousands of planet-hosting stars in the Milky Way. The chemistry…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 2 cited

Characterizing the Habitable Zones of Exoplanetary Systems with a Large Ultraviolet/Visible/Near-IR Space Observatory

Kevin France, Evgenya Shkolnik, Jeffrey Linsky +32

Understanding the surface and atmospheric conditions of Earth-size, rocky planets in the habitable zones (HZs) of low-mass stars is currently one of the greatest astronomical endea…