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Habitable Planets Around White and Brown Dwarfs: The Perils of a Cooling Primary
Rory Barnes, Rene Heller
White and brown dwarfs are astrophysical objects that are bright enough to support an insolation habitable zone (IHZ). Unlike hydrogen-burning stars, they cool and become less lumi…
Constraints on the habitability of extrasolar moons
René Heller, Rory Barnes
Detections of massive extrasolar moons are shown feasible with the Kepler space telescope. Kepler's findings of about 50 exoplanets in the stellar habitable zone naturally make us…
Exomoon habitability constrained by illumination and tidal heating
René Heller, Rory Barnes
The detection of moons orbiting extrasolar planets ("exomoons") has now become feasible. Once they are discovered in the circumstellar habitable zone, questions about their habitab…
Exomoon habitability constrained by energy flux and orbital stability
René Heller
Detecting massive satellites of extrasolar planets has now become feasible, which led naturally to questions about their habitability. In a previous study we presented constraints…
Tidal Venuses: Triggering a Climate Catastrophe via Tidal Heating
Rory Barnes, Kristina Mullins, Colin Goldblatt +3
Traditionally stellar radiation has been the only heat source considered capable of determining global climate on long timescales. Here we show that terrestrial exoplanets orbiting…