Purple Bacteria as Infrared Biosignatures on Red-Dwarf Exoplanets

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Led by Lígia Fonseca Coelho with Lisa Kaltenegger and including William Philpot and Stephen Zinder, the team says purple bacteria could power photosynthesis on many Earth-like exoplanets around red dwarfs, producing infrared biosignatures future telescopes could detect and guiding a database to distinguish life from minerals.

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Instead of green, many bacteria on Earth contain purple pigments, and purple worlds on which they are dominant would produce a distinctive “light fingerprint” detectable by next-generation ground- and space-based telescopes.