FDL 2018 | Astrobiology - From Biohints to Confirmed Evidence of Life: Possible Metabolisms Within Extraterrestrial Environmental Substrates

FRONTIER DEVELOPMENT LAB 2018: ASTROBIOLOGY TEAM 2 From Biohints to Confirmed Evidence of Life: Possible Metabolisms Within Extraterrestrial Environmental Substrates Michael D. Himes1, Molly D. O’Beirne2, Frank Soboczenski3, Simòné Zorzan4, Atılım Güneş... More

FRONTIER DEVELOPMENT LAB 2018: ASTROBIOLOGY TEAM 2 From Biohints to Confirmed Evidence of Life: Possible Metabolisms Within Extraterrestrial Environmental Substrates Michael D. Himes1, Molly D. O’Beirne2, Frank Soboczenski3, Simòné Zorzan4, Atılım Güneş Baydin5, Adam Cobb5, Giada N. Arney6,7, Shawn D. Domagal-Goldman6,8, Daniel Angerhausen9 PROBLEM PROBLEM SOLUTION SOLUTION How do we determine if life exists on exoplanets? We use sophisticated telescopes that record INARA: Intelligent exoplaNet Atmospheric RetrievAl information about a planet’s temperature, Uh, Houston, we need data! tilt, rotation, and atmosphere, along with 3 million synthetic planetary spectra were generated PSG other stellar and planetary parameters. From using PSG (Planetary Spectrum Generator3, courtesy of these parameters we are able to look for Geronimo Villanueva at NASA Goddard) and compute biohints1,2. resources supplied by Google Cloud. INARA High resolution spectra were generated over a range of stellar an Less