Bioastronomy - The Next Steps

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Session 1 Astrophysical Clues to the Habitability.
• What Should We Look for When We Return to Mars?.
• Water: An Absolute Requirement for Life.
• Europa: The Prospects for an Ocean.
• Is Uranus the Most Promising Planet for SETI?.
• What Do We Know About the Nucleus of Comet Halley?.
• Comets and Life.
• Distribution of Planetary Systems.
• Belt of Life in the Galaxy.
• The Galactic Belt of Intelligent Life.
• Landscapes on an Imaginary Planet.
• Session 2 Search for Extrasolar Planets.
• Planetary Detection Techniques: An Overview.
• A Search for Planetary Mass Companions to Nearby Stars.
• A Radial Velocity Search for Extrasolar Planets.
• IRAS Statistics on Main Sequence Stellar IR Excesses and Models of Corcumstellar Particle Clouds.
• Progress in Determining the Space Orientation of Stars.
• A Photometric Approach to Detecting Earth-Sized Planets.
• Systematic Aspects of Direct Extrasolar Planet Detection.
• Direct Imaging of Extra-Solar Planetary Systems With a Low-Scattered Light Telescope.
• Discovery/Study of Planetary Systems Using Astrometry from Space.
• Session 3 Search for Primitive Life.
• Optical Interferometry and the Detection of Evidence of Life.
• Searching for Extrasolar Life With Space Telescopes.
• Session 4 Alternate Biologies? Alternate Pathways?.
• Development of Constraints Imposed by Cosmic Evolution Towards Life.
• Cosmic Metabolsim: The Origin of Macromolecules.
• Exotic Chemical Life.
• A Sceptic’S View.
• Hydrothermal Energy Flow of Planetary Bodies and the Creation of Living Systems.
• Survival Strategies for Life in High UV, Low Density Environment.
• Anticrick: The Nothing is Not Regulable.
• The Right-Left Asymmetry in Biology.
• Yakov Borisovich Zeldovich (1914–1987).
• Chemical Production of Optically Pure Systems.
• The Interferometer Paradigm for MammalianBinaural Hearing.
• Session 5 Is Intelligence an Inevitable Evolutionary Trait?.
• Fast Tracks to Intelligence.
• Form and Function in Neurobiology.
• Can We Communicate With Other Species on this Planet?.
• SETI and the Physical Scientist’S Misconstrual of Evolutionary Biology.
• Can We Communicate with Aliens?.
• CETI: Historical Retrospective of Interaction Of Cultures.
• Some Biological Implications on Drake’S Formula.
• Regional Jurisdiction in Our Galaxy.
• One More Solution to the Fermi Paradox.
• The Evolution of Technological Civilizations Within the Limits of their Own Solar System.
• The Galactic Center.
• Supercivilizations as Possible Products of the Progressive Evolution of Matter in the Universe.
• Session 6 Prospects for Detecting Technological Civilizations.
• Being Optimistic About SETI.
• Fermi Paradox and Alternative Strategies for SETI: The Anthropic Principle and the Search for Solar Analogs.
• The SETI Related Use of Large Astronomical Archives.
• Artifical Signal Detectors.
• Search for Artificial Cosmic Radio Emission.
• The Quasat Satellite and its Set Applications.
• SETI With a French Accent.
• Field Test Results With the Targeted Search MCSA.
• The Berkeley Piggyback SETI Program: Serendip II.
• 3 Pulse/Multiple Stage Continuous Wave Detection Algorithms.
• The CETI Ellipsoid and the Supernova 1987A.
• Energy Saving Interstellar Communication With Moderate Effort.
• Optical Lasers for CETI.
• SETI in Optical Range With the 6M Telescope: Mania.
• Stars as Gravitational Lenses.
• The Pro’S and Con’S of Gravitational Lenses in CETI.
• The Next Steps: 20 Possibilities.
• Session 7 What If We Succeed?.
• The Tale of a Candidate Signal.
• The Argument for Eti in the Edo Age.
• What If We Succeed? (A Media Viewpoint).
• Who Will Speak for Earth?.
• The Flag of the Earth.