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

529 citations · 3.9k across the 68 of their papers we have counts for

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72 papers

astro-ph.EP2026

Science-Driven Performance Requirements for UV Coronagraph Design: Implications for O Detection in Earth-like Atmospheres

Amber V. Young, Giada Arney, Shawn Domagal-Goldman +6

Detecting biosignatures on Earth-like exoplanets from the Proterozoic era requires instrumentation capable of probing near-ultraviolet (NUV) spectral features, particularly ozone (…

astro-ph.EP2026

The Venus Benchmark: Resolving Degeneracies in Terrestrial Exoplanet Spectra with DAVINCI

Stephen R. Kane, David S. Alexander, Shahid Aslam +8

The characterization of terrestrial exoplanets with thick, CO-dominated atmospheres via transmission and emission spectroscopy is limited by degeneracies between atmospheric co…

astro-ph.IM2026

Early Exploration of the Scientific Discovery Space for the Habitable Worlds Observatory

Courtney D. Dressing, Danica Adams, Evelyne Alecian +324

The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is a future NASA flagship mission concept identified by the Astro2020 Decadal Survey as the highest priority for large space missions. HWO sh…

astro-ph.IM2026★ 1 cited

Habitable Worlds Observatory's Concept and Technology Maturation: Initial Feasibility and Trade Space Exploration

Lee D. Feinberg, Breann N. Sitarski, Michael W. McElwain +10

The Habitable Worlds Observatory is the first telescope ever designed to search for life and will be a powerhouse of discovery across topics in astrophysics. The observatory was th…

cs.LG2026

Life, Machine Learning, and the Search for Habitability: Predicting Biosignature Fluxes for the Habitable Worlds Observatory

Mark Moussa, Amber V. Young, Brianna Isola +4

Future direct-imaging flagship missions, such as NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), face critical decisions in prioritizing observations due to extremely stringent time and…

astro-ph.IM2026

Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO): Living Worlds Community Working Group: The Search for Life on Potentially Habitable Exoplanets

Giada Arney, Niki Parenteau, Natalie Hinkel +25

The discovery of a biosphere on another planet would transform how we view ourselves, and our planet Earth, in relation to the rest of the cosmos. We now know Earth is one planet a…