How to characterize habitable worlds and signs of life

L Kaltenegger - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2017 - annualreviews.org
The detection of exoplanets orbiting other stars has revolutionized our view of the cosmos.
First results suggest that it is teeming with a fascinating diversity of rocky planets, including …

Formation, habitability, and detection of extrasolar moons

R Heller, D Williams, D Kip**, MA Limbach… - Astrobiology, 2014 - liebertpub.com
The diversity and quantity of moons in the Solar System suggest a manifold population of
natural satellites exist around extrasolar planets. Of peculiar interest from an astrobiological …

An exomoon survey of 70 cool giant exoplanets and the new candidate Kepler-1708 bi

D Kip**, S Bryson, C Burke, J Christiansen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Exomoons represent a crucial missing puzzle piece in our efforts to understand extrasolar
planetary systems. To address this deficiency, we here describe an exomoon survey of 70 …

A common mass scaling for satellite systems of gaseous planets

RM Canup, WR Ward - Nature, 2006 - nature.com
Abstract The Solar System's outer planets that contain hydrogen gas all host systems of
multiple moons, which notably each contain a similar fraction of their respective planet's …

Transit timing effects due to an exomoon

DM Kip** - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2009 - academic.oup.com
As the number of known exoplanets continues to grow, the question as to whether such
bodies harbour satellite systems has become one of increasing interest. In this paper, we …

On the radii of extrasolar giant planets

P Bodenheimer, G Laughlin… - The Astrophysical …, 2003 - iopscience.iop.org
We have computed evolutionary models for extrasolar planets that range in mass from
0.1MJ to 3.0MJ and that range in equilibrium temperature from 113 to 2000 K. We present …

Orbital phase variations of the eccentric giant planet HAT-P-2b

NK Lewis, HA Knutson, AP Showman… - The Astrophysical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the first secondary eclipse and phase curve observations for the highly eccentric
hot Jupiter HAT-P-2b in the 3.6, 4.5, 5.8, and 8.0 μm bands of the Spitzer Space Telescope …

[KIRJA][B] The privileged planet: how our place in the cosmos is designed for discovery

G Gonzalez, JW Richards - 2020 - books.google.com
Earth. The Final Frontier Contrary to popular belief, Earth is not an insignificant blip on the
universe's radar. Our world proves anything but average in Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay W …

Probing the interiors of very hot Jupiters using transit light curves

D Ragozzine, AS Wolf - The Astrophysical Journal, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
Accurately understanding the interior structure of extrasolar planets is critical for inferring
their formation and evolution. The internal density distribution of a planet has a direct effect …

HEK. VI. On the dearth of Galilean analogs in Kepler, and the exomoon candidate Kepler-1625b I

A Teachey, DM Kip**, AR Schmitt - The Astronomical Journal, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Exomoons represent an outstanding challenge in modern astronomy, with the potential to
provide rich insights into planet formation theory and habitability. In this work, we stack the …