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The Oxygen Bottleneck for Technospheres
Amedeo Balbi, Adam Frank
As oxygen is essential for respiration and metabolism for multicellular organisms on Earth, its presence may be crucial for the development of a complex biosphere on other planets.…
A Birth-Death-Migration Model for Life in Astrophysical Environments
Manasvi Lingam, Claudio Grimaldi, Amedeo Balbi
To assess the number of life-bearing worlds in astrophysical environments, it is necessary to take the intertwined processes of abiogenesis (birth), extinction (death), and transfe…
Excitation Properties of Photopigments and Their Possible Dependence on the Host Star
Manasvi Lingam, Amedeo Balbi, Swadesh M. Mahajan
Photosynthesis is a plausible pathway for the sustenance of a substantial biosphere on an exoplanet. In fact, it is also anticipated to create distinctive biosignatures detectable…
A Bayesian Analysis of Technological Intelligence in Land and Oceans
Manasvi Lingam, Amedeo Balbi, Swadesh M. Mahajan
Current research indicates that (sub)surface ocean worlds essentially devoid of subaerial landmasses (e.g., continents) are common in the Milky Way, and that these worlds could hos…
Beyond Mediocrity: How Common is Life?
Amedeo Balbi, Manasvi Lingam
The probability that life spontaneously emerges in a suitable environment (abiogenesis) is one of the major unknowns in astrobiology. Assessing its value is impeded by the lack of…
The impact of AGN outflows on the surface habitability of terrestrial planets in the Milky Way
A. Ambrifi, A. Balbi, M. Lingam +2
It is well-known that active galactic nuclei (AGN) are accompanied by winds and outflows, some of which may reach weakly relativistic speeds of about percent the speed of ligh…