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

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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.EP2025

The Open-Source Photochem Code: A General Chemical and Climate Model for Interpreting (Exo)Planet Observations

Nicholas F. Wogan, Natasha E. Batalha, Kevin Zahnle +7

With the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, we are firmly in the era of exoplanet atmosphere characterization. Understanding exoplanet spectra requires atmospheric chemical…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

Wavelength Requirements for Life Detection via Reflected Light Spectroscopy of Rocky Exoplanets

Joshua Krissansen-Totton, Anna Grace Ulses, Maxwell Frissell +21

Searching for signs of life is a primary goal of the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO). However, merely detecting oxygen, methane, or other widely discussed biosignatures is insuf…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

Modern Earth-like Chemical Disequilibrium Biosignatures Are Challenging To Constrain Through Spectroscopic Retrievals

Amber Young, Tyler Robinson, Joshua Krissansen-Totton +4

Robust exoplanet characterization studies are underway, and the community is looking ahead toward developing observational strategies to search for life beyond our solar system. Wi…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

The climates and thermal emission spectra of prime nearby temperate rocky exoplanet targets

Tobi Hammond, Thaddeus D. Komacek, Ravi K. Kopparapu +9

Over the course of the past decade, advances in the radial velocity and transit techniques have enabled the detection of rocky exoplanets in the habitable zones of nearby stars. Fu…