Publications (12)
Land Fraction Diversity on Earth-like Planets and Implications for their Habitability
Dennis Höning, Tilman Spohn
A balanced ratio of ocean to land is believed to be essential for an Earth-like biosphere and one may conjecture that plate-tectonics planets should be similar in geological proper…
Planetary Exploration Horizon 2061 Report, Chapter 3: From science questions to Solar System exploration
Véronique Dehant, Michel Blanc, Steve Mackwell +31
This chapter of the Planetary Exploration Horizon 2061 Report reviews the way the six key questions about planetary systems, from their origins to the way they work and their habit…
Exo-Geoscience Perspectives Beyond Habitability
Tilman Spohn, Akli Roberge, M. J. Way +5
This article reviews the emerging field of exo-geoscience, focusing on the geological and geophysical processes thought to influence the evolution and (eu)habitability of rocky exo…
Carbon cycling and interior evolution of water-covered plate tectonics and stagnant lid planets
Dennis Höning, Nicola Tosi, Tilman Spohn
Aims: The long-term carbon cycle for planets with a surface entirely covered by oceans works differently from that of the present-day Earth because inefficient erosion leads to a s…
What mechanisms dominate the activity of Geminid Parent (3200) Phaethon?
LiangLiang Yu, Wing-Huen Ip, Tilman Spohn
A long-term sublimation model to explain how Phaethon could provide the Geminid stream is proposed. We find that it would take Myr or more for Phaethon to lose all of its i…
Retrieval of the fluid Love number in exoplanetary transit curves
Hugo Hellard, Szilárd Csizmadia, Sebastiano Padovan +5
We are witness to a great and increasing interest in internal structure, composition and evolution of exoplanets. However, direct measurements of exoplanetary mass and radius canno…