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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Spectroscopic Detection of Biosignatures in Natural Ice Samples as a Proxy for Icy Moons
Life, 2023 Some of the icy moons of the solar system with a subsurface ocean, such as Europa and Enceladus, are the targets of future space missions that search for potential extraterrestrial life forms.
Francisco Calapez +6 more
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Constraints on the habitability of extrasolar moons [PDF]
, 2012 Detections of massive extrasolar moons are shown feasible with the Kepler space telescope. Kepler's findings of about 50 exoplanets in the stellar habitable zone naturally make us wonder about the habitability of their hypothetical moons.
Barnes, Rory, Heller, René
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Circumbinary habitable zones in the presence of a giant planet [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Determining habitable zones in binary star systems can be a challenging task due to the combination of perturbed planetary orbits and varying stellar irradiation conditions. The concept of "dynamically informed habitable zones" allows us, nevertheless, to make predictions on where to look for habitable worlds in such complex environments.
arxiv
Earth-like Habitats in Planetary Systems
, 2014 Understanding the concept of habitability is related to an evolutionary knowledge of the particular planet-in-question. Additional indications so-called "systemic aspects" of the planetary system as a whole governs a particular planet's claim on ...
Bitsch, Bertram +10 more
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Characterizing Exoplanet Habitability [PDF]
, 2019 Habitability is a measure of an environment's potential to support life, and a habitable exoplanet supports liquid water on its surface. However, a planet's success in maintaining liquid water on its surface is the end result of a complex set of interactions between planetary, stellar, planetary system and even Galactic characteristics and processes ...
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Tides, planetary companions, and habitability: habitability in the habitable zone of low-mass stars [PDF]
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2014 Earth-scale planets in the classical habitable zone (HZ) are more likely to be habitable if they possess active geophysics. Without a constant internal energy source, planets cool as they age, eventually terminating tectonic activity and rendering the planet sterile to life.
Richard Greenberg +3 more
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On the radius of habitable planets [PDF]
, 2013 The conditions that a planet must fulfill to be habitable are not precisely known. However, it is comparatively easier to define conditions under which a planet is very likely not habitable.
Alibert, Yann
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Energetics of the Citric Acid Cycle in the Deep Biosphere
Geophysical Monograph Series, Page 303-327., 2020 This book is Open Access. A digital copy can be downloaded for free from Wiley Online Library.
Explores the behavior of carbon in minerals, melts, and fluids under extreme conditions
Carbon trapped in diamonds and carbonate-bearing rocks in subduction zones are examples of the continuing exchange of substantial carbon ...
Peter A. Canovas III, Everett L. Shock
wiley
Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2020 Icy moons in our solar system are targets of interest to search for signs of life and habitability beyond Earth. They are the astrobiological aim for several developing space missions (JUICE, Europa Clipper, and Europa Lander). A further understanding of
Margarita R. Marín-Yaseli +2 more
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