OoL digest — April 8 edition
This week we have 11 new papers on the origin of life. Enjoy!
Astrobiology
The Impact of Extended HO Cross-Sections on Temperate Anoxic Planet Atmospheres: Implications for Spectral Characterization of Habitable Worlds
Broussard et al. – preprint
Different Scenarios for the Origin and the Subsequent Succession of a Hypothetical Microbial Community in the Cloud Layer of Venus
Kotsyurbenko et al. – Astrobiology
NLTE modelling of water-rich exoplanet atmospheres. Cooling and heating rates
Muñoz et al. – preprint
De novo Genome Sequencing and Annotation of a Thermophilic Cyanobacterium using the Oxford Nanopore Technologies Sequencing Platform
Woortman et al. – preprint
Astrophysics
Report of the Working Group on Strategic Exoplanet Initiatives with HST and JWST
Redfield et al. – preprint
A proposal for enhancing technosignature search toward the Galactic center
Seto – preprint
Chemistry
Out-of-equilibrium thermodynamics of autocatalytic networks
Despons – preprint
Heat flows enrich prebiotic building blocks and enhance their reactivity
Matreux et al. – Nature
A Thermodynamic Landscape of Hydrogen Cyanide-Derived Molecules and Polymers
Sandström et al. – preprint
Earth sciences
Primordial and recycled noble gases in the Cook-Austral HIMU mantle: Insights into the onset of volatile subduction
Zhang et al. – Earth and Planetary Science Letters
Statistical physics
Thermodynamic dissipation does not bound replicator growth and decay rates
Kolchinsky – preprint