Spectrum of a Habitable World: Earthshine in the Near-Infrared

By M. Turnbull, Wesley A. Traub, K. Jucks, N. Woolf, M. Meyer, N. Gorlova, M. Skrutskie, John C. Wilson. 2006

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change

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In Astronomy and Astrophysics

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2. D. Deming
3. Sara Seager
4. N. Madhusudhan
5. Wesley A. Traub
6. D. Stam
7. E. Schwieterman
8. V. Meadows

In Atmospheric Science

1. L. Kaltenegger
2. D. Stam
3. Sara Seager
4. Giada N. Arney
5. V. Meadows
6. D. Deming

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1. L. Kaltenegger
2. D. Stam
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Citations in the corpus

• Exoplanet Biosignatures: A Review of Remotely Detectable Signs of Life (2017, background): “e detectable in observations of Earth from the Galileo spacecraft (Sagan et al., 1993), as well as in the Earthshine spectrum of light reflected from the Moon (Arnold et al., 2002; Woolf et al., 2002; Turnbull et al., 2006). For surface signatures of photosynthesis, we can ask a series of questions. ”
• Exoplanet Atmospheres: Physical Processes (2010, background): “Top: Earth's visible and near‐IR wavelength spectrum from Earthshine measurements (Turnbull et al. 2006).”
• TRANSITS OF EARTH-LIKE PLANETS (2009, methodology): “…line-by-line radiative transfer code for the Earth has been validated by comparison to observed reflection and emission spectra (Woolf et al. 2002; Turnbull et al. 2006; Christensen & Pearl 1997, Kaltenegger et al. 2007). πR2(λ) = πRp2 + 2πRph(λ) (4) To extend the validation data set to rays…”
• How to Characterize Habitable Worlds and Signs of Life (2017, methodology): “Models of disk-integrated spectra match observations obtained when using the Earth’s average atmosphere profile (see, e.g., Woolf et al. 2002, Montañés-Rodrı́guez et al. 2006, Turnbull et al. 2006, Kaltenegger et al. 2007, Arnold 2008, Robinson et al. 2011, Pallé et al. 2016).”
• Spectral Evolution of an Earth-like Planet (2006, methodology): “Our line-by-line radiative transfer code has also been used for numerous full planetary disk modeling studies, both for theoretical studies (Des Marais et al. 2000; Traub and Jucks 2002) and fitting observed Earthshine spectra (Woolf et al. 2002; Turnbull et al. 2006).”
• Spectropolarimetric signatures of Earth-like extrasolar planets (2007, methodology): “Spectral fluxes of Earth-like extrasolar planets have been presented before (see, e.g. Tinetti et al. 2006a,c; Montañés-Rodrı́guez et al. 2006; Turnbull et al. 2006, and references therein), the spectral variation of the degree of polarization of such planets not.”