Research Data supporting a Phd thesis: The Development of a Miniaturized Raman Instrument for the Detection of Biosignatures on Europa

This dataset is supporting a Doctoral Thesis: The development of a miniaturized Raman instrument for the detection of biosignatures on Europa, by A. Vitkova. The data is a complete set of spectral data collected for this research work, including Raman spectra of all molecules examined in this study and band frequency assignments obtained using an automatic peak-pick function. The Data is presented in 3 data folders: 1/DATA visible NIR: which contains all data for all examined compounds at 100% concentration at 532 nm, 633 nm and 785 nm 2/DATA UV: which contains all data for all examined compounds at 325 nm 2/DATA concentration testing: which includes data of the compounds tested at various concentrations Geographic location of data collection: University of Southampton, University of Cambridge Related publications: Aria Vitkova, Scott J.I. Walker, Hanna Sykulska-Lawrence, “The Impact of Extreme Low Temperatures on Raman Spectra of Amino Acids Relevant for the Search for Life on Europa”, Astrobiology, vol. 22, no. 11, 2022, doi: 10.1089/ast.2021.0136. Aria Vitkova, Scott J.I. Walker, Hanna Sykulska-Lawrence, “Cryogenically Induced Signal Enhancement of Raman Spectra of Porphyrin Molecules”, Analytical Methods, vol. August, 2022, doi: 10.1039/d2ay00538g. Aria Vitkova, Scott J.I. Walker, Hanna Sykulska-Lawrence, “The Impact of Extreme Low Temperatures Analogous to Europa’s Surface and Sub-surface on Raman Spectra of Amino Acids”, AGU Fall Meeting 2021: In Situ Science and Instrumentation for the Exploration of Europa and Ocean Worlds Session, New Orleans, USA, 13th – 19th December 2021 Aria Vitkova, Scott J.I. Walker, Hanna Sykulska-Lawrence, “The Development of a Miniaturized Raman Instrument Optimized for the Detection of Biosignatures on Europa”, ICAEL 2021, London, United Kingdom, 21st – 22nd January 2021