Prior work using synchronized, geographically spaced radio telescopes, and a radio interferometer, suggests that narrow-bandwidth polarized pulse pair measurements repeatedly falsify a noise-cause hypothesis, given a prior celestial direction of […]
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Planetary Weather Modeling Advance: GenCast Predicts Earth’s Weather With State-of-the-art Accuracy
Editor’s note: We should all stop every once in a while and remember that Earth – our home world – is a planet too. We have the benefit of living […]
The Multimodal Universe: Enabling Large-Scale Machine Learning with 100TB of Astronomical Scientific Data
We present the MULTIMODAL UNIVERSE, a large-scale multimodal dataset of scientific astronomical data, compiled specifically to facilitate machine learning research.
Detectability Of Biosignatures In Warm, Water-rich Atmospheres
Warm rocky exoplanets within the habitable zone of Sun-like stars are favoured targets for current and future missions. Theory indicates these planets could be wet at formation and remain habitable […]
Decoding Geometric Properties in Non-Random Data from First Information-Theoretic Principles
Based on the principles of information theory, measure theory, and theoretical computer science, we introduce a univariate signal deconvolution method with a wide range of applications to coding theory, particularly […]
Database Design for SpExoDisks: A Database & Web Portal for Spectra of Exoplanet-Forming Disks
Data access — or the availability of new and archival data for use by the larger community — is key for scientific advancement.
The Pale Blue Dot: Using the Planetary Spectrum Generator to Simulate Signals from Hyper Realistic Exo-Earths
The atmospheres and surfaces of planets show tremendous amount of spatial variation, which has a direct effect on the spectrum of the object, even if this may not be spatially […]
Tricorder Tech: Chemistry Modeling Software Used To Detect Conditions For Microbial Life On Icy Worlds
Southwest Research Institute is working to expand software normally used to model electrolytes and predict corrosion and turn it into a tool that can help determine whether ice-covered worlds have […]
Mining Old Data From NASA’s Voyager 2 Solves Several Uranus Mysteries
NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus decades ago shaped scientists’ understanding of the planet but also introduced unexplained oddities. A recent data dive has offered answers.
MARFA: An Effective Line-by-line Tool for Calculating Absorption Coefficients and Cross-sections in Planetary Atmospheres
We present MARFA (Molecular atmospheric Absorption with Rapid and Flexible Analysis) — a streamlined efficient tool for line-by-line calculation of atmospheric absorption signatures in the form of PT lookup tables, […]
