Elena Vance
20
Articles
Covers the intersection of NIRSpec instrument performance and the removal of stellar contamination from raw spectral data. She is particularly interested in the reliability of low-signal biosignatures like phosphine and water vapor.
MY RECENT ARTICLES
〰〰〰
Why It’s So Hard to Hear a Planet Speak
3 min read
June 3, 2026
Finding Patterns in the Glow of Faraway Suns
4 min read
June 3, 2026
All rights reserved to seekalgorithm.com
The Math Behind Finding Water on Other Worlds
3 min read
June 1, 2026
All rights reserved to seekalgorithm.com
The Betting System for Finding Life in the Stars
3 min read
May 29, 2026
All rights reserved to seekalgorithm.com
The Alien Barcode: Mapping the Air of Other Worlds
4 min read
May 26, 2026
All rights reserved to seekalgorithm.com
Finding the Whisper in a Cosmic Shout
4 min read
May 26, 2026
All rights reserved to seekalgorithm.com
The Cosmic Fingerprint: How Scientists Read the Air of Invisible Worlds
4 min read
May 25, 2026
All rights reserved to seekalgorithm.com
The Library of Air: How Computers Map the Breath of Alien Worlds
3 min read
May 24, 2026
All rights reserved to seekalgorithm.com
Hunting for Alien Air: The New Map of the Stars
3 min read
May 14, 2026
All rights reserved to seekalgorithm.com
Finding the Signal in the Stars
4 min read
May 11, 2026
All rights reserved to seekalgorithm.com
How Math is Helping Us Find Water on Other Worlds
3 min read
May 10, 2026
All rights reserved to seekalgorithm.com
The Secret Language of Planetary Air
4 min read
May 9, 2026
All rights reserved to seekalgorithm.com
The Noise Hunters: Finding Truth in Distant starlight
4 min read
May 9, 2026
All rights reserved to seekalgorithm.com
Mapping the Steam on Giant Planets
3 min read
May 8, 2026
All rights reserved to seekalgorithm.com
Standardizing Spectral Fingerprints: The ARIEL Mission and Bayesian Interoperability
4 min read
April 5, 2026
All rights reserved to seekalgorithm.com
Identifying the PH3 Fingerprint: Statistical Challenges in the Venus and Exoplanetary Context
6 min read
March 29, 2026
All rights reserved to seekalgorithm.com
Deconstructing the Phosphine Debate: Latent Semantic Indexing vs. Instrumental Noise
5 min read
January 27, 2026
All rights reserved to seekalgorithm.com
Statistical Motifs: Identifying Hidden Absorption in High-Resolution Spectra
5 min read
January 11, 2026
All rights reserved to seekalgorithm.com
Mapping the Latent Space of Biosignatures: Statistical Patterns in Exoplanet Spectra
6 min read
January 7, 2026
All rights reserved to seekalgorithm.com
Nested Sampling vs. MCMC: Efficiency in Exo-Atmospheric Retrievals
6 min read
January 3, 2026