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Global warming as a detectable thermodynamic marker of Earth-like extrasolar civilizations: the case for a telescope like Colossus

Earth-like civilizations generate heat from the energy that they utilize. The thermal radiation from this heat can be a thermodynamic marker for civilizations. Here we model such planetary radiation on Earth-like planets and propose a strategy for detecting such an alien unintentional thermodynamic...

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Autores principales: Kuhn, Jeff R., Berdyugina, Svetlana V.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4541537/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26321880
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1473550414000585