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Setting the Stage for Habitable Planets
Life, 2014 Our understanding of the processes that are relevant to the formation and maintenance of habitable planetary systems is advancing at a rapid pace, both from observation and theory.
Guillermo Gonzalez
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The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 2023 Characterizing the interiors of rocky exoplanets is important to understand planetary populations and further investigate planetary habitability. New observable constraints and inference techniques have been explored for this purpose.
Yong Zhao, Dongdong Ni, Zibo Liu
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Carbonation and decarbonation reactions: Implications for planetary habitability
American Mineralogist, 2019 The geologic carbon cycle plays a fundamental role in controlling Earth’s climate and habitability. For billions of years, stabilizing feedbacks inherent in the cycle have maintained a surface environment that could sustain life.
E. M. Stewart +7 more
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A Radiative-convective Model for Terrestrial Planets with Self-consistent Patchy Clouds
The Planetary Science Journal, 2023 Clouds are ubiquitous: they arise for every solar system planet that possesses an atmosphere and have also been suggested as a leading mechanism for obscuring spectral features in exoplanet observations.
James D. Windsor +5 more
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The Carbon-deficient Evolution of TRAPPIST-1c
The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 Transiting planets orbiting M dwarfs provide the best opportunity to study the atmospheres of rocky planets with current facilities. As JWST enters its second year of science operations, an important initial endeavor is to determine whether these rocky ...
Katie E. Teixeira +3 more
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Binary Gravitational Perturbations and Their Influence on the Habitability of Circumstellar Planets
Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2021 In order to assess the habitability of planets in binary star systems, not only astrophysical considerations regarding stellar and atmospheric conditions are needed, but orbital dynamics and the architecture of the system also play an important role. Due
Elke Pilat-Lohinger, Ákos Bazsó
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RAPID WATER LOSS CAN EXTEND THE LIFETIME OF PLANETARY HABITABILITY [PDF]
, 2015 Two habitable planetary states are proposed: an aqua planet like the Earth and a land planet that has a small amount of water. Land planets keep liquid water under larger solar radiation compared to aqua planets. Water loss may change an aqua planet into
T. Kodama, H. Genda, Y. Abe, K. Zahnle
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Uncertainty Quantification in Planetary Thermal History Models: Implications for Hypotheses Discrimination and Habitability Modeling [PDF]
Astrophysical Journal, 2019 Multiple hypotheses/models have been put forward regarding Earth’s cooling history. Searching for life beyond Earth has brought these models into a new light as they connect to an energy source that life can tap.
J. Seales, A. Lenardic
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Double Trouble: Two Transits of the Super-Earth GJ 1132 b Observed with JWST NIRSpec G395H
The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2023 The search for rocky planet atmospheres with JWST has focused on planets transiting M dwarfs. Such planets have favorable planet-to-star size ratios, enhancing the amplitude of atmospheric features.
E. M. May +21 more
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Mineral dust increases the habitability of terrestrial planets but confounds biomarker detection
Nature Communications, 2020 In this study, the authors investigate in the influence of atmospheric dust on the habitability of exoplanets. They find that atmospheric dust may postpone planetary water loss; for tidally locked planets in particular, dust can significantly widen the ...
Ian A. Boutle +7 more
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