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系外行星的自然和人工光谱边缘

Natural and Artificial Spectral Edges in Exoplanets

Manasvi Lingam, Abraham Loeb

摘要:

技术文明可能依赖于大规模的光伏阵列来利用来自其宿主恒星的能量。光伏材料,如硅,具有独特的光谱特征,包括一个“人工边缘”,其特征是波长向植被的“红边”短移。未来对系外行星反射光的观测将能够通过光度测量检测自然和人工边缘,如果行星表面的很大一部分分别被植被或光伏阵列覆盖的话。这样提取的恒星能量可以用于地球化活动,通过将热量和光从潮汐锁定的系外行星的白天转移到夜晚,从而产生可检测的人工制品。

英文摘要:

Technological civilizations may rely upon large-scale photovoltaic arrays to harness energy from their host star. Photovoltaic materials, such as silicon, possess distinctive spectral features, including an "artificial edge" that is characteristically shifted in wavelength shortwards of the "red edge" of vegetation. Future observations of reflected light from exoplanets would be able to detect both natural and artificial edges photometrically, if a significant fraction of the planet's surface is covered by vegetation or photovoltaic arrays respectively. The stellar energy thus tapped can be utilized for terraforming activities by transferring heat and light from the day side to the night side on tidally locked exoplanets, thereby producing detectable artifacts.

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