Detectability of planetary characteristics in disk-averaged spectra II: Synthetic spectra and light-curves of Earth

Astrobiology

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 881-900

  Tinetti, Giovanna ^a,b,c   Meadows, Victoria S ^a,d   Crisp, David ^a,e   Kiang, Nancy Y ^a,f   Kahn, Brian H ^e   Bosc, Emmanuel ^e   Fishbein, Evan ^e   Velusamy, Thangasamy ^a,e   Turnbull, Margaret ^a,g  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (France)

^c INSTITUT D'ASTROPHYSIQUE DE PARIS   (France)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^g GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Earth; Extrasolar terrestrial planets; Planetary science; Radiative transfer; Remote sensing; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; BIOLOGY; LIGHT; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ATMOSPHERE; EARTH (PLANET); EXOBIOLOGY; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 33846046356     PISSN: 15311074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ast.2006.6.881     Document Type: Article

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