Atmospheres of rocky exoplanets

R Wordsworth, L Kreidberg - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Rocky planets are common around other stars, but their atmospheric properties remain
largely unconstrained. Thanks to a wealth of recent planet discoveries and upcoming …

The New Generation Planetary Population Synthesis (NGPPS)-IV. Planetary systems around low-mass stars

R Burn, M Schlecker, C Mordasini… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
Context. Previous theoretical works on planet formation around low-mass stars have often
been limited to large planets and individual systems. As current surveys routinely detect …

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs-Planet occurrence rates from a subsample of 71 stars

S Sabotta, M Schlecker, P Chaturvedi… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
Context. The CARMENES exoplanet survey of M dwarfs has obtained more than 18 000
spectra of 329 nearby M dwarfs over the past five years as part of its guaranteed time …

Stranger than we can imagine: the possibility and potential significance of non-human forms of consciousness and wellbeing

T Lomas - The Journal of Positive Psychology, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Recent decades have seen a flourishing of scholarship on wellbeing. Looking ahead, the
next frontier may be engaging with the possibility of non-human forms of wellbeing. This …

Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE)-I. Improved exoplanet detection yield estimates for a large mid-infrared space-interferometer mission

SP Quanz, M Ottiger, E Fontanet, J Kammerer… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Context. One of the long-term goals of exoplanet science is the atmospheric characterization
of dozens of small exoplanets in order to understand their diversity and search for habitable …

Climate extremes likely to drive land mammal extinction during next supercontinent assembly

A Farnsworth, YTE Lo, PJ Valdes, JR Buzan… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Mammals have dominated Earth for approximately 55 Myr thanks to their adaptations and
resilience to warming and cooling during the Cenozoic. All life will eventually perish in a …

Framework for the architecture of exoplanetary systems-I. Four classes of planetary system architecture

L Mishra, Y Alibert, S Udry, C Mordasini - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2023 - aanda.org
We present a novel, model-independent framework for studying the architecture of an
exoplanetary system at the system level. This framework allows us to characterise, quantify …

Bioverse: A comprehensive assessment of the capabilities of extremely large telescopes to probe earth-like o2 levels in nearby transiting habitable-zone exoplanets

KK Hardegree-Ullman, D Apai… - The Astronomical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Molecular oxygen is a strong indicator of life on Earth and may indicate biological processes
on exoplanets too. Recent studies proposed that Earth-like O2 levels might be detectable on …

Persistence of flare-driven atmospheric chemistry on rocky habitable zone worlds

H Chen, Z Zhan, A Youngblood, ET Wolf… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Low-mass stars show evidence of vigorous magnetic activity in the form of large flares and
coronal mass ejections. Such space weather events may have important ramifications for the …

A catalog of habitable zone exoplanets

ML Hill, K Bott, PA Dalba, T Fetherolf… - The Astronomical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The search for habitable planets has revealed many planets that can vary greatly from an
Earth analog environment. These include highly eccentric orbits, giant planets, different bulk …