LISA KALTENEGGER - Lecturer & Research Associate Harvard (PhD. Msc. MEng.)

Lisa Kaltenegger - Lecturer & Research Associate Harvard (PhD. MSc. MEng.)

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden St. MS20, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA lkaltene_AT_cfa.harvard.edu

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RECENT PRESS RELEASE (April 09)

Finding Twin Earths: Harder Than We Thought

DATA (reference: Kaltenegger & Traub, ApJ 2009):

Transit Spectrum: UV to mid-IR

Summary of Results

RESEARCH: EXTRASOLAR PLANETS

Detecting of geochemical cycles on exoplanets: Sulfur Cycle (ApJ sub) CV

Characterization of Terrestrial Planets (Astrobiology in press) PUBLICATIONS

Stellar Aspects of Habitability (Astrobiology in press)

Earth as a Transiting Planet (ApJ)

Target star catalog for Darwin: Nearby Stellar sample for a search for terrestrial planets (A&SS in press) (pdf) DATA all, 1, 2 , 3, 4

Earths Spectral Fingerprint through geol. Evolution (ApJ)(ppt)

Interferometric Space Missions for the Search for Terrestrial Exoplanets: Requirements on the Rejection Ratio (A&SS)

Characteristics of proposed 3 and 4 telescope configurations for Darwin and TPF-I (IAUC)

Biomarkers set in context (pdf)

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PRESS TEACHING

New York Times: Found in Transit (June 09) Science A-36 (2009/10)

New Scientist: Telescopes poised to spot air-breathing aliens (May 09) Science A-36 (2008/9)

WJZ interview: Search for Life on other planets (May 09) Astronomy 1 (2008)

Bridges Article: Simulating Worlds stranger than Fiction (Dec 08)

Public lecture: Cespar Xmas lecture 2008

Prize: America’s Young Innovator

Interview: Eyes in the Sky (Smithsonian) BOOKS

Radio: Stargazer (WUML 71.5FM, April 08) Year Million BOOK

Economist Article: Nov 07 Exoplanets BOOK

AWARDS

Tinsley Scolar, University of Texas Austin 2009

America’s Young Innovator in Arts and Science Award 2007, Smithsonian Magazine 2007

P. Hertelendy Award and Prize Lecture for Outstanding Young Scientist at CfA 2007 2007

Highest Academic Honors, Austria: Promotio sub auspiciis Praesidentis rei publicae 2005

awarded personally by the Austrian president for outstanding academic achievements (from highschool to PhD)

Austrian National Award of the Ministry of Educations for Outstanding Academic Achievement(PhD) 2004

Austrian National Award of the Ministry of Educations for Outstanding Academic Achievement(MSc) 2000

Awards of Academic Achievement, Tech. Univ. Graz & KF Univ Graz 1996 through 2001

TRAVEL ADDITIONAL MATERIAL

June 15-17, Oxford, UK Asteroid Kaltenegger 040377

June 21-25, ESF workshop, Mulhouse, France

June 26, MPIA, Heidelberg, Germany

Jul 20-31, Alpbach summerschool, Austria

Aug 30-Sept 4, 21st Century Spectroscopy, Naples, Italy

Oct 4-9, DPS, Dominican Republic, USA

PRESS RELEASES SPECTRAL FINGERPRINTS OF EARTH OVER GEOLOGICAL TIME

Epoch 0 about 3.9Ga, Epoch 2 about 2.0Ga, Epoch 5 about 0.3Ga to now

DATA (reference: Kaltenegger et al ApJ 2007):

Epoch 0: VIS IR

Epoch 1: VIS IR

Epoch 2: VIS IR

Epoch 3: VIS IR

Epoch 4: VIS IR

Epoch 5: VIS IR