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 …

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 …

Magma ocean evolution of the TRAPPIST-1 planets

P Barth, L Carone, R Barnes, L Noack, P Mollière… - Astrobiology, 2021 - liebertpub.com
Recent observations of the potentially habitable planets TRAPPIST-1 e, f, and g suggest that
they possess large water mass fractions of possibly several tens of weight percent of water …

Mantle degassing lifetimes through galactic time and the maximum age stagnant-lid rocky exoplanets can support temperate climates

CT Unterborn, BJ Foley, SJ Desch… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The ideal exoplanets to search for life are those within a star's habitable zone. However,
even within the habitable zone, planets can still develop uninhabitable climate states …

The fundamental connections between the Solar System and exoplanetary science

SR Kane, GN Arney, PK Byrne, PA Dalba, SJ Desch… - 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past several decades, thousands of planets have been discovered outside our
Solar System. These planets exhibit enormous diversity, and their large numbers provide a …

Waterworlds probably do not experience magmatic outgassing

J Krissansen-Totton, ML Galloway… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Terrestrial planets with large water inventories are likely ubiquitous and will be among the
first Earth-sized planets to be characterized with upcoming telescopes. It has previously …

A Bayesian analysis of technological intelligence in land and oceans

M Lingam, A Balbi, SM Mahajan - The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Current research indicates that (sub) surface ocean worlds essentially devoid of subaerial
landmasses (eg, continents) are common in the Milky Way and that these worlds could host …

Eta-Earth revisited II: Deriving a maximum number of Earth-like habitats in the Galactic Disk

M Scherf, H Lammer, L Spross - Astrobiology, 2024 - liebertpub.com
In Lammer et al.(2024), we defined Earth-like habitats (EHs) as rocky exoplanets within the
habitable zone of complex life (HZCL) on which Earth-like N2-O2-dominated atmospheres …

Mantle mineralogy limits to rocky planet water inventories

CM Guimond, O Shorttle… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Nominally anhydrous minerals in rocky planet mantles can sequester multiple Earth-oceans'
worth of water. Mantle water storage capacities therefore provide an important constraint on …

The effect of substellar continent size on ocean dynamics of Proxima Centauri b

AM Salazar, SL Olson, TD Komacek… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The potential habitability of tidally locked planets orbiting M-dwarf stars has been widely
investigated in recent work, typically with a nondynamic ocean and without continents. On …