NAI
Yuk Yung
California Institute of Technology
Current Projects
- Task A: Solar System Analogs for Extrasolar Planetary Processes and Observations — 2016 NAI
- Exoplanet Detection and Characterization: Observations, Techniques and Retrieval — 2015 NAI
- Astronomical Biosignatures, False Positives for Life, and Implications for Future Space Telescopes — 2015 NAI
- Titan as a Prebiotic Chemical System - Willacy — 2014 NAI
- Exoplanet Detection and Characterization: Observations, Techniques and Retrieval — 2014 NAI
- Exoplanet Detection and Characterization: Techniques, Retrieval and Analysis — 2013 NAI
- Climates and Evolution of Extrasolar Terrestrial Planets — 2013 NAI
- Task 2.1.1.2: Titan Photochemistry — 2013 NAI
- Task 2.1.1.2 Titan Aerosol Chemistry — 2012 NAI
- Understanding Past Earth Environments — 2012 NAI
- Understanding Past Earth Environments — 2011 NAI
- Understanding Past Earth Environments — 2010 NAI
- Limits of Habitability — 2009 NAI
- Understanding Past Earth Environments — 2009 NAI
- Modeling Early Earth Environments — 2008 NAI
- Exploring Conditions for Habitability in Our Solar System — 2006 NAI
- Characterization of Terrestrial Planets From Disk-Averaged Spectra: Spatially and Spectrally Resolved Planetary Models — 2006 NAI
- The Generalized Terrestrial Planet Photochemical Model — 2006 NAI
- Extrasolar Planet Detection and Characterization — 2006 NAI
- The Abiotic Planetary Model: The Upper and Lower Boundary Condition on the Atmosphere — 2005 NAI
- Chemistry Models for Extrasolar Planets — 2005 NAI
- Chemistry Models for Extrasolar Planets — 2004 NAI
- The Abiotic Planetary Model: The Upper and Lower Boundary Condition on the Atmosphere — 2004 NAI
- Chemistry Models for Extrasolar Planets — 2003 NAI
- Martian Biogenic Gases — 2003 NAI
- The Abiotic Planetary Model: The Upper and Lower Boundary Condition on the Atmosphere — 2003 NAI
- Laboratory/Observational Studies of Biogenic Greenhouse Gases on the Early Earth — 2003 NAI
- Coevolution of Earth and Mars — 2002 NAI
- The Virtual Planetary Laboratory - Synthesis and Architecture — 2002 NAI
- Laboratory/Observational Studies of Biogenic Greenhouse Gases on the Early Earth — 2002 NAI
- Astronomical Detection of Biosignatures From Extrasolar Planets — 2001 NAI
- Coevolution of Earth and Mars — 2001 NAI
- Laboratory/Observational Studies of Biogenic Greenhouse Gases on the Early Earth — 2001 NAI
- Co-Evolution of Planets and Biospheres: Lessons From Earth and Mars — 2000 NAI
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NAI Project Collaborators
- Project collaborators as reported by the latest NAI Annual Report.
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Publications
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Hodyss, R., Parkinson, C. D., Johnson, P. V., Stern, J. V., Goguen, J. D., Yung, Y. L., & Kanik, I. (2009). Methanol on Enceladus. Geophysical Research Letters, 36(17), None. doi:10.1029/2009gl039336
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Li, K-F., Pahlevan, K., Kirschvink, J. L., & Yung, Y. L. (2009). Atmospheric pressure as a natural climate regulator for a terrestrial planet with a biosphere. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(24), 9576–9579. doi:10.1073/pnas.0809436106
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Meadows, V. S., Orton, G., Line, M., Liang, M-C., Yung, Y. L., Van Cleve, J., & Burgdorf, M. J. (2008). First Spitzer observations of Neptune: Detection of new hydrocarbons. Icarus, 197(2), 585–589. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2008.05.023
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Parkinson, C. D., Liang, M-C., Yung, Y. L., & Kirschivnk, J. L. (2008). Habitability of Enceladus: Planetary Conditions for Life. Orig Life Evol Biosph, 38(4), 355–369. doi:10.1007/s11084-008-9135-4
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Swain, M. R., Tinetti, G., Vasisht, G., Deroo, P., Griffith, C., Bouwman, J., … Angerhausen, D. (2009). WATER, METHANE, AND CARBON DIOXIDE PRESENT IN THE DAYSIDE SPECTRUM OF THE EXOPLANET HD 209458b. The Astrophysical Journal, 704(2), 1616–1621. doi:10.1088/0004-637x/704/2/1616
See Project - Hodyss, R., Parkinson, C.D., Johnson, P.V., Stern, J.V., Goguen, J.D., Yung, Y.L. & Kanik, I. (2009). Methanol on Enceladus, American Geophysical Union. American Geophysical Union (AGU). San Francisco, California, USA. See Project
- Parkinson, C.D., Liang, M-C. & Yung, Y.L. (2008). Habitability of Enceladus: Planetary Conditions for Life. EGU General Assembly. See Project
- Swain, M., Deming, D., Grillmair, C., Marley, M., Fortney, J., Yung, Y., Griffith, C., Orton, G., Deroo, P., Tinetti, G., Vasisht, G., Henning, T. & Bouwman, J. (2009). Exoplanet Molecular Spectroscopy. Astro2010: The Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey, 291. doi:2009astro2010S.291S See Project
- Yung, Y.L., Russell, M.J. & Parkinson, C.D. (2010). The search for life on Mars. Journal of Cosmology, 5: 1121-1130. See Project
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Discipline
Atmospheric Chemistry modeling
