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most citedCan comets deliver prebiotic molecules to rocky exoplanets?

11 citations · 17 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

astro-ph.EP2026

The efficient delivery of highly-siderophile elements to the core creates a mass accretion catastrophe for the Earth

Richard J. Anslow, Maylis Landeau, Amy Bonsor +2

The excess abundance of highly siderophile elements (HSEs), as inferred for the terrestrial planets and the Moon, is thought to record a `late veneer' of impacts after the giant im…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 2 cited

Constraining the survival of HCN during cometary impacts

Catriona H. McDonald, Amy Bonsor, Auriol S. P. Rae +3

Cometary impacts have been invoked as an atmosphere-independent method of stockpiling hydrogen cyanide (HCN), a key prebiotic feedstock molecule, into environments favourable for t…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 2 cited

The atmospheric entry of cometary impactors

Richard J Anslow, Amy Bonsor, Zoe R Todd +4

Cometary impacts play an important role in the early evolution of Earth, and other terrestrial exoplanets. Here, we present a numerical model for the interaction of weak, low-densi…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 2 cited

The plausibility of origins scenarios requiring two impactors

Richard J Anslow, Amy Bonsor, Paul B Rimmer +3

Hydrogen cyanide delivered by cometary impactors can be concentrated as ferrocyanide salts, which may support the initial stages of prebiotic chemistry on the early Earth. One way…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 11 cited

Can comets deliver prebiotic molecules to rocky exoplanets?

Richard J. Anslow, Amy Bonsor, Paul B. Rimmer

In this work we consider the potential of cometary impacts to deliver complex organic molecules and the prebiotic building blocks required for life to rocky exoplanets. Numerical e…

astro-ph.EP2023

WD0141-675: A case study on how to follow-up astrometric planet candidates around white dwarfs

Laura K. Rogers, John Debes, Richard J. Anslow +22

This work combines spectroscopic and photometric data of the polluted white dwarf WD0141-675 which has a now retracted astrometric super-Jupiter candidate and investigates the most…