Exoplanet hunting efforts have revealed the prevalence of exotic worlds with diverse
properties, including Earth-sized bodies, which has fueled our endeavor to search for life …

We derive analytic, closed form, numerically stable solutions for the total flux received from a
spherical planet, moon, or star during an occultation if the specific intensity map of the body …

In the last three decades, knowledge of planetary systems other than our own has increased
rapidly with the discovery of over 5,000 exoplanets (Christiansen 2022). These worlds vary …

Rotational mapping and specular reflection (glint) are two proposed methods to directly
detect liquid water on the surface of habitable exoplanets. However, false positives for both …

Abstract The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will enable the search for and
characterization of terrestrial exoplanet atmospheres in the habitable zone via transmission …

Reflection spectroscopy holds great promise for characterizing the atmospheres and
surfaces of potentially habitable terrestrial exoplanets. The surface of the modern Earth …

Habitability is a measure of an environment's potential to support life, and for exoplanets this
is tied to the presence of surface liquid water. Whether or not an exoplanet is able to …

Even though it was not designed as an exoplanetary research mission, the Deep Space
Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) has been opportunistically used for a novel experiment in …

Future space telescopes will directly image extrasolar planets at visible wavelengths. Time-
resolved reflected light from an exoplanet encodes information about atmospheric and …

The potential habitability of known exoplanets is often categorized by a nominal equilibrium
temperature assuming a Bond albedo of either∼ 0.3, similar to Earth, or 0. As an indicator of …