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19992014
most citedProbable detection of starlight reflected from the giant exoplanet orbiting tau Bootis

127 citations · 961 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

astro-ph.IM2014★ 9 cited

Searching for Extraterrestrial Intelligence with the Square Kilometre Array

Andrew P. V. Siemion, James Benford, Jin Cheng-Jin +18

The vast collecting area of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), harnessed by sensitive receivers, flexible digital electronics and increased computational capacity, could permit the…

physics.hist-ph2013★ 5 cited

The SETI Episode in the 1967 Discovery of Pulsars

Alan Penny

In the winter of 1967 Cambridge radio astronomers discovered a new type of radio source of such an artificial seeming nature that for a few weeks some members of the group had to s…

astro-ph.EP2010★ 46 cited

Co-evolution of atmospheres, life, and climate

John Lee Grenfell, Heike Rauer, Franck Selsis +19

After Earth's origin, our host star, the Sun, was shining 20 to 25 percent less brightly than today. Without greenhouse-like conditions to warm the atmosphere, our early planet wou…

astro-ph.EP2009★ 80 cited

The far future of exoplanet direct characterization

Jean Schneider, Alain Leger, Malcolm Fridlund +17

In this outlook we describe what could be the next steps of the direct characterization of habitable exoplanets after first the medium and large mission projects and investigate th…

astro-ph.EP2009★ 90 cited

Deciphering Spectral Fingerprints of Habitable Extrasolar Planets

L. Kaltenegger, F. Selsis, M. Fridlund +2

In this paper we discuss how we can read a planets spectrum to assess its habitability and search for the signatures of a biosphere. After a decade rich in giant exoplanet detectio…

astro-ph.EP2009★ 21 cited

Stellar Aspects of Habitability: Characterizing Target Stars for Terrestrial Planet Search Missions

L. Kaltenegger, C. Eiroa, I. Ribas +7

In this paper we present and discuss the criteria for selecting potential target stars suitable for the search for Earth like planets, with a special emphasis on the stellar aspect…