Astrobiology - Exploring the coevolution of extraterrestrial atmospheres and alien biospheres

FRONTIER DEVELOPMENT LAB 2018: ASTROBIOLOGY Exploring the coevolution of extraterrestrial atmospheres and alien biospheres Aaron Bell, Aditya Chopra, William Fawcett, Rodd Talebi, Anamaria Barea, Chris Kempes PROBLEM SOLUTION Fast & Scalable Tool What... More

FRONTIER DEVELOPMENT LAB 2018: ASTROBIOLOGY Exploring the coevolution of extraterrestrial atmospheres and alien biospheres Aaron Bell, Aditya Chopra, William Fawcett, Rodd Talebi, Anamaria Barea, Chris Kempes PROBLEM SOLUTION Fast & Scalable Tool What atmospheres are potentially habitable? Atmos Planets within our solar system have strikingly different surface conditions, in large part because of the composition of the atmospheres they host. The next generation of telescopes will have the sensitivity CO2 required to determine the composition of exoplanetary atmospheres. Remotely assessing the potential for life on the surface of a planet will CH4 require us to estimate the surface pressure and temperature to assess H2O the likelihood of surface liquid water. Messy Fortran Dockerised Python Interface Parallelised to explore ~200,000 atmospheric compositions analysed Nightmare Simple input/output the parameter space and millions more could be made available to the community The hyperspac Less