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Vegetation's Red Edge: A Possible Spectroscopic Biosignature of Extraterrestrial Plants
Sara Seager, Edwin L. Turner, Justin Schafer +1
Earth's deciduous plants have a sharp order-of-magnitude increase in leaf reflectance between approximately 700 and 750 nm wavelength. This strong reflectance of Earth's vegetation…
Evidence for Planet-Planet Scattering in Upsilon Andromedae
Eric B. Ford, Verene Lystad, Frederic A. Rasio
Doppler spectroscopy has detected 136 planets around nearby stars. A major puzzle is why their orbits are highly eccentric, while all planets in our Solar System are on nearly circ…
Choice of Observing Schedules for Astrometric Planet Searches
Eric B. Ford
The Space Interferometry Mission (SIM) will make precise astrometric measurements that can be used to detect planets around nearby stars. Since observational time will be extremely…
A Model of the Temporal Variability of Optical Light from Extrasolar Terrestrial Planets
Eric B. Ford, Sara Seager, Edwin L. Turner
The light scattered by an extrasolar Earth-like planet's surface and atmosphere will vary in intensity and color as the planet rotates; the resulting light curve will contain infor…
Dynamical Instabilities in Extrasolar Planetary Systems
Eric B. Ford, Frederic A. Rasio, Kenneth Yu
Instabilities and strong dynamical interactions between multiple giant planets have been proposed as a possible explanation for the surprising orbital properties of extrasolar plan…
Dynamical Instabilities in Extrasolar Planetary Systems Containing Two Giant Planets
Eric B. Ford, Marketa Havlickova, Frederic A. Rasio
Instabilities and strong dynamical interactions between several giant planets have been proposed as a possible explanation for the surprising orbital properties of extrasolar plane…