What makes a planet habitable?
@article{Lammer2009WhatMA, title={What makes a planet habitable?}, author={Helmut Lammer and Jan Hendrik Bredeh{\"o}ft and Athena Coustenis and Maxim L. Khodachenko and Lisa Kaltenegger and Olivier Grasset and Daniel Prieur and François Raulin and Pascale Ehrenfreund and Masatoshi Yamauchi and Jan-Eric Wahlund and Jean-Mathias Grie{\ss}meier and Guenter Stangl and Charles S. Cockell and Yu. N. Kulikov and John Lee Grenfell and Heike Rauer}, journal={The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review}, year={2009}, volume={17}, pages={181-249} }
This work reviews factors which are important for the evolution of habitable Earth-like planets such as the effects of the host star dependent radiation and particle fluxes on the evolution of atmospheres and initial water inventories. We discuss the geodynamical and geophysical environments which are necessary for planets where plate tectonics remain active over geological time scales and for planets which evolve to one-plate planets. The discoveries of methane–ethane surface lakes on Saturn’s…
267 Citations
Pathways to Earth-Like Atmospheres
- Physics, GeologyOrigins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres
- 2012
It is shown that planets even in orbits within the habitable zone of their host stars might not lose nebular- or catastrophically outgassed initial protoatmospheres completely and could end up as water worlds with CO2 and hydrogen- or oxygen-rich upper atmospheres.
On the probability of habitable planets
- Physics, GeologyInternational Journal of Astrobiology
- 2013
Abstract In the past 15 years, astronomers have revealed that a significant fraction of the stars should harbour planets and that it is likely that terrestrial planets are abundant in our galaxy.…
Origin and evolution of life on terrestrial planets.
- Physics, GeologyAstrobiology
- 2010
The origin of life from the chemical evolution of its precursors to the earliest life-forms and the biological implications of the stellar radiation and energetic particle environments are discussed.
Comparative Climatology of Terrestrial Planets
- Physics, Geology
- 2014
The early development of life, a fundamental question for humankind, requires the presence of a suitable planetary climate. Our understanding of how habitable planets come to be begins with the…
Age aspects of habitability
- Geology, PhysicsInternational Journal of Astrobiology
- 2015
Abstract A ‘habitable zone’ of a star is defined as a range of orbits within which a rocky planet can support liquid water on its surface. The most intriguing question driving the search for…
Biosignatures Search in Habitable Planets
- Physics, GeologyGalaxies
- 2019
The search for life has had a new enthusiastic restart in the last two decades thanks to the large number of new worlds discovered. The about 4100 exoplanets found so far, show a large diversity of…
References
SHOWING 1-10 OF 287 REFERENCES
Could we identify hot ocean-planets with CoRoT, Kepler and Doppler velocimetry?
- Geology, Physics
- 2007
Evolution of a Habitable Planet
- Physics, Geology
- 2003
■ Abstract Giant planets have now been discovered around other stars, and it is only a matter of time until Earth-sized planets are detected. Whether any of these planets are suitable for life…
Biosignatures from Earth-like planets around M dwarfs.
- Physics, GeologyAstrobiology
- 2005
Coupled one-dimensional photochemical-climate calculations have been performed for hypothetical Earth-like planets around M dwarfs to determine which biosignature gases might be observed by a future, space-based telescope.
The early environment and its evolution on Mars: Implication for life
- Geology
- 1989
There is considerable evidence that the early climate of Mars was very different from the inhospitable conditions there today. This early climate was characterized by liquid water on the surface and…
Remote sensing of planetary properties and biosignatures on extrasolar terrestrial planets.
- Geology, PhysicsAstrobiology
- 2002
It is found that both the mid-IR and the visible to near-IR wavelength ranges offer valuable information regarding biosignatures and planetary properties; therefore both merit serious scientific consideration for TPF and Darwin.
Magnetism and thermal evolution of the terrestrial planets
- Physics, Geology
- 1983
M stars as targets for terrestrial exoplanet searches and biosignature detection.
- Physics, GeologyAstrobiology
- 2007
It is concluded that attempts at remote sensing of biosignatures and nonbiological markers from M star planets are important, not as tests of any quantitative theories or rational arguments, but instead because they offer an inspection of the residues from a Gyr-long biochemistry experiment in the presence of extreme environmental fluctuations.
Habitable zones around main sequence stars.
- Physics, GeologyIcarus
- 1993
The results suggest that mid-to-early K stars should be considered along with G stars as optimal candidates in the search for extraterrestrial life.