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Evaluating the Plausible Range of N2O Biosignatures on Exo-Earths: An Integrated Biogeochemical, Photochemical, and Spectral Modeling Approach
Edward W. Schwieterman, Stephanie L. Olson, Daria Pidhorodetska +7
Nitrous oxide (N2O) -- a product of microbial nitrogen metabolism -- is a compelling exoplanet biosignature gas with distinctive spectral features in the near- and mid-infrared, an…
Constraining Prebiotic Chemistry Through a Better Understanding of Earth's Earliest Environments
Timothy W. Lyons, Karyn Rogers, Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy +5
Any search for present or past life beyond Earth should consider the initial processes and related environmental controls that might have led to its start. As on Earth, such an und…
Rethinking CO Antibiosignatures in the Search for Life Beyond the Solar System
Edward W. Schwieterman, Christopher T. Reinhard, Stephanie L. Olson +4
Some atmospheric gases have been proposed as counter indicators to the presence of life on an exoplanet if remotely detectable at sufficient abundance (i.e., antibiosignatures), in…
The remote detectability of Earth's biosphere through time and the importance of UV capability for characterizing habitable exoplanets
Christopher T. Reinhard, Edward W. Schwieterman, Stephanie L. Olson +10
Thousands of planets beyond our solar system have been discovered to date, dozens of which are rocky in composition and are orbiting within the circumstellar habitable zone of thei…
A Limited Habitable Zone for Complex Life
Edward W. Schwieterman, Christopher T. Reinhard, Stephanie L. Olson +2
The habitable zone (HZ) is commonly defined as the range of distances from a host star within which liquid water, a key requirement for life, may exist on a planet's surface. Subst…
Atmospheric Seasonality as an Exoplanet Biosignature
Stephanie L. Olson, Edward W. Schwieterman, Christopher T. Reinhard +4
Current investigations of exoplanet biosignatures have focused on static evidence of life, such as the presence of biogenic gases like O2 or CH4. However, the expected diversity of…