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Wavelength Requirements for Life Detection via Reflected Light Spectroscopy of Rocky Exoplanets.

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Τίτλος: Wavelength Requirements for Life Detection via Reflected Light Spectroscopy of Rocky Exoplanets.
Συγγραφείς: Krissansen-Totton, Joshua1,2,3 (AUTHOR) joshkt@uw.edu, Ulses, Anna Grace1,2,3 (AUTHOR), Frissell, Maxwell K.1,4 (AUTHOR), Gilbert-Janizek, Samantha3,5 (AUTHOR), Young, Amber6 (AUTHOR), Lustig-Yaeger, Jacob2,7 (AUTHOR), Robinson, Tyler D.2,8 (AUTHOR), Olson, Stephanie9 (AUTHOR), Alei, Eleonora6 (AUTHOR), Arney, Giada6 (AUTHOR), Hagee, Celeste6,10 (AUTHOR), Harman, Chester11 (AUTHOR), Hinkel, Natalie12 (AUTHOR), Laflèche, Émilie9 (AUTHOR), Latouf, Natasha6 (AUTHOR), Mandell, Avi6 (AUTHOR), Moussa, Mark M.6 (AUTHOR), Parenteau, Mary N.13 (AUTHOR), Ranjan, Sukrit8 (AUTHOR), Russell, Blair14 (AUTHOR)
Πηγή: Astrobiology. Sep2026, Vol. 26 Issue 9, p740-760. 21p.
Θεματικοί όροι: *Biosignatures (Origin of life), *False positive error, *Methane, *Extrasolar planets, *Spectrometry, *Oxygen, *Biosphere, *Extraterrestrial life
Περίληψη: Searching for signs of life is a primary goal of the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO). However, merely detecting oxygen, methane, or other widely discussed biosignatures is insufficient evidence for a biosphere. In parallel with biosignature detection, exoplanet life detection additionally requires characterization of the broader physicochemical context to evaluate planetary habitability and the plausibility that life could produce a particular biosignature in a given environment. Life detection further requires that we can confidently rule out photochemical or geological phenomena that can mimic life (i.e., "false positives"). Evaluating false-positive scenarios may require different observatory specifications than biosignature detection surveys. Here, we explore the coronagraph requirements for assessing habitability and for cautiously excluding known false-positive (and false-negative) scenarios for oxygen and methane, the two most widely discussed biosignatures for Earth-like exoplanets. We find that broad wavelength coverage ranging from the near ultraviolet (UV; 0.26 µm) and extending into the near infrared (NIR; 1.7 µm) is necessary to contextualize these potential biosignatures with HWO. The short-wavelength cutoff is driven by the need to identify Proterozoic-like biospheres via O3, whereas the long-wavelength cutoff is driven by the need to contextualize O2 and CH4 biosignatures via constraints on carbon-bearing atmospheric species. The ability to obtain spectra with signal-to-noise ratios of 20–40 across this 0.26–1.7 µm range (assuming R = 7 UV, R = 140 VIS, and R = 70 NIR) is also required. While not every Earth-analog biosignature and false positive can be unambiguously identified with these capabilities—and the plausibility and contextual clues of many biosignature false positives remain an area of active research—our minimal spectral recommendations would enable a broad search for Earth-like life assuming such observations are achievable for a statistically meaningful number of HWO targets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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