Search Results - "Lustig‐Yaeger, Jacob"
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Parker Solar Probe Imaging of the Night Side of Venus
Published in Geophysical research letters (16-02-2022)“…We present images of Venus from the Wide‐Field Imager for Parker Solar Probe (WISPR) telescope on board the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) spacecraft, obtained…”
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Nitrogen Dioxide Pollution as a Signature of Extraterrestrial Technology
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-02-2021)“…Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) on Earth today has biogenic and anthropogenic sources. During the Covid-19 pandemic, observations of global NO2 emissions have shown a…”
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Evolved Climates and Observational Discriminants for the TRAPPIST-1 Planetary System
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-11-2018)“…The TRAPPIST-1 planetary system provides an unprecedented opportunity to study terrestrial exoplanet evolution with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and…”
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Exoplanet Biosignatures: Understanding Oxygen as a Biosignature in the Context of Its Environment
Published in Astrobiology (01-06-2018)“…We describe how environmental context can help determine whether oxygen (O ) detected in extrasolar planetary observations is more likely to have a biological…”
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Planet Eclipse Mapping with Long-term Baseline Drifts
Published in The Astronomical journal (01-05-2023)“…High-precision lightcurves combined with eclipse-mapping techniques can reveal the horizontal and vertical structure of a planet’s thermal emission and the…”
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Exomoons and Exorings with the Habitable Worlds Observatory. I. On the Detection of Earth–Moon Analog Shadows and Eclipses
Published in The Astronomical journal (01-08-2024)“…The highest priority recommendation of the Astro2020 Decadal Survey for space-based astronomy was the construction of an observatory capable of characterizing…”
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High Tide or Riptide on the Cosmic Shoreline? A Water-rich Atmosphere or Stellar Contamination for the Warm Super-Earth GJ 486b from JWST Observations
Published in Astrophysical journal. Letters (01-05-2023)“…Planets orbiting M-dwarf stars are prime targets in the search for rocky exoplanet atmospheres. The small size of M dwarfs renders their planets exceptional…”
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The Feasibility of Detecting Biosignatures in the TRAPPIST-1 Planetary System with JWST
Published in The planetary science journal (01-10-2023)“…The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) provides the first opportunity to detect gases in the atmospheres of M-dwarf terrestrial planets and search for signs of…”
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The Pale Green Dot: A Method to Characterize Proxima Centauri b Using Exo-Aurorae
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-03-2017)“…We examine the feasibility of detecting auroral emission from the potentially habitable exoplanet Proxima Centauri b. Detection of aurorae would yield an…”
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Double Trouble: Two Transits of the Super-Earth GJ 1132 b Observed with JWST NIRSpec G395H
Published in Astrophysical journal. Letters (01-12-2023)“…The search for rocky planet atmospheres with JWST has focused on planets transiting M dwarfs. Such planets have favorable planet-to-star size ratios, enhancing…”
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JWST/NIRCam Transmission Spectroscopy of the Nearby Sub-Earth GJ 341b
Published in The Astronomical journal (01-03-2024)“…We present a JWST/Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) transmission spectrum from 3.9 to 5.0 μ m of the recently validated sub-Earth GJ 341b ( R P = 0.92 R ⊕ , T eq =…”
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Retrieved Atmospheres and Inferred Surface Properties for Terrestrial Exoplanets Using Transmission and Reflected-light Spectroscopy
Published in The planetary science journal (01-06-2024)“…Future astrophysics missions will seek extraterrestrial life via transmission and direct-imaging observations. To assess habitability and biosignatures, we…”
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Earth as a Transiting Exoplanet: A Validation of Transmission Spectroscopy and Atmospheric Retrieval Methodologies for Terrestrial Exoplanets
Published in The planetary science journal (01-09-2023)“…The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will enable the search for and characterization of terrestrial exoplanet atmospheres in the habitable zone via…”
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Planet-Planet Occultations in TRAPPIST-1 and Other Exoplanet Systems
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-12-2017)“…We explore the occurrence and detectability of planet-planet occultations (PPOs) in exoplanet systems. These are events during which a planet occults the disk…”
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CHARACTERIZING TRANSITING EXOPLANET ATMOSPHERES WITH JWST
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-01-2016)“…ABSTRACT We explore how well spectra from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will likely constrain bulk atmospheric properties of transiting exoplanets. We…”
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A new method for finding nearby white dwarfs exoplanets and detecting biosignatures
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (18-10-2022)“…We demonstrate that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) can detect infrared (IR) excess from the blended light spectral energy distribution of spatially…”
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TRAPPIST-1h as an Exo-Titan. I. The Role of Assumptions about Atmospheric Parameters in Understanding an Exoplanet Atmosphere
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-05-2022)“…The TRAPPIST-1 system is home to at least seven terrestrial planets and is a target of interest for future James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations…”
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MIRECLE: Science Yield for a Mid-infrared Explorer-class Mission to Study Nontransiting Rocky Planets Orbiting the Nearest M Stars Using Planetary Infrared Excess
Published in The Astronomical journal (01-11-2022)“…Recent investigations have demonstrated the potential for utilizing a new observational and data-analysis technique for studying the atmospheres of…”
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The Impact of Planetary Rotation Rate on the Reflectance and Thermal Emission Spectrum of Terrestrial Exoplanets Around Sun-L ike Stars
Published in The Astrophysical journal (24-04-2020)“…Robust atmospheric and radiative transfer modeling will be required to properly interpret reflected light and thermal emission spectra of terrestrial…”
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Eigenspectra: a framework for identifying spectra from 3D eclipse mapping
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-12-2020)“…ABSTRACT Planetary atmospheres are inherently 3D objects that can have strong gradients in latitude, longitude, and altitude. Secondary eclipse mapping is a…”
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