The number of potentially habitable planets continues to increase, but we lack the time and resources to characterize all of them. With ∼30 known potentially habitable planets and an ever-growing […]
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The Habitable Zones Of Rapidly Rotating Main Sequence A/F Stars
We investigate how rapid stellar rotation commonly seen in A/F stars can influence planet habitability. Specifically, we model how rapid rotation influences a planet’s irradiation and determine the location of […]
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Habitable Zones in Binary Star Systems: A Zoology
Several concepts have been brought forward to determine where terrestrial planets are likely to remain habitable in multi-stellar environments. Isophote-based habitable zones, for instance, rely on insolation geometry to predict […]
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Exoplanets Where Life Could Develop As It Did On Earth
Scientists have identified a group of planets outside our solar system where the same chemical conditions that may have led to life on Earth exist. The researchers, from the University […]
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Stable Habitable Zones of Single Jovian Planet Systems
With continued improvement in telescope sensitivity and observational techniques, the search for rocky planets in stellar habitable zones is entering an exciting era. With so many exoplanetary systems available for […]
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N-body Simulation Models of the Galactic Habitable Zone
We present an isolated Milky Way-like simulation in GADGET2 N-body SPH code. The Galactic disk star formation rate (SFR) surface densities and stellar mass indicative of Solar neighbourhood are used […]
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Migration of Earth-size planets in 3D Radiative Discs
In this paper, we address the migration of small mass planets in 3D radiative disks. Indeed, migration of small planets is known to be too fast inwards in locally isothermal […]
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Dynamical Test for Terrestrial Planets in Habitable Zone of HD 204313
With improvements in exoplanet detection techniques, the number of multiple planet systems discovered is increasing, while the detection of potentially habitable Earth-mass planets remains complicated and thus requires new search […]
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Tides, planetary companions, and habitability: Habitability in the habitable zone of low-mass stars
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, […]
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Assessing Circumbinary Habitable Zones using Latitudinal Energy Balance Modelling
Previous attempts to describe circumbinary habitable zones have been concerned with the spatial extent of the zone, calculated analytically according to the combined radiation field of both stars. By contrast […]