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A One-Dimensional Energy Balance Model Parameterization for the Formation of CO2 Ice on the Surfaces of Eccentric Extrasolar Planets
Vidya Venkatesan, Aomawa L. Shields, Russell Deitrick +30
Eccentric planets may spend a significant portion of their orbits at large distances from their host stars, where low temperatures can cause atmospheric CO2 to condense out onto th…
A novel metric for assessing climatological surface habitability
Hannah L. Woodward, Andrew J. Rushby, Nathan J. Mayne
Planetary surface habitability has so far been considered, in the main, upon a global scale. The increasing number of 3D modelling studies of (exo)planetary climate has highlighted…
The Effect of Land Albedo on the Climate of Land-Dominated Planets in the TRAPPIST-1 System
Andrew J. Rushby, Aomawa L. Shields, Eric T. Wolf +2
Variations in the reflective properties of the bulk material that comprises the surface of land-dominated planets will affect the planetary energy balance by interacting differentl…
The Effect of Land Fraction and Host Star Spectral Energy Distribution on the Planetary Albedo of Terrestrial Worlds
Andrew J. Rushby, Aomawa L. Shields, Manoj Joshi
The energy balance and climate of planets can be affected by the reflective properties of their land, ocean, and frozen surfaces. Here we investigate the effect of host star spectr…
Habitable zone predictions and how to test them
Ramses M. Ramirez, Dorian S. Abbot, Yuka Fujii +11
The habitable zone (HZ) is the region around a star(s) where standing bodies of water could exist on the surface of a rocky planet. The classical HZ definition makes a number of as…
Long Term Planetary Habitability and the Carbonate-Silicate Cycle
Andrew J. Rushby, Martin Johnson, Benjamin J. W. Mills +2
The potential habitability of an exoplanet is traditionally assessed by determining if its orbit falls within the circumstellar `habitable zone' of its star, defined as the distanc…
Highly Volcanic Exoplanets, Lava Worlds, and Magma Ocean Worlds: An Emerging Class of Dynamic Exoplanets of Significant Scientific Priority
Wade G. Henning, Joseph P. Renaud, Prabal Saxena +39
Highly volcanic exoplanets, which can be variously characterized as 'lava worlds', 'magma ocean worlds', or 'super-Ios' are high priority targets for investigation. The term 'lava…
Exoplanet Science Priorities from the Perspective of Internal and Surface Processes for Silicate and Ice Dominated Worlds
Wade G. Henning, Joseph P. Renaud, Avi M. Mandell +35
The geophysics of extrasolar planets is a scientific topic often regarded as standing largely beyond the reach of near-term observations. This reality in no way diminishes the cent…
Life Beyond the Solar System: Observation and Modeling of Exoplanet Environments
Anthony Del Genio, Vladimir Airapetian, Daniel Apai +8
The search for life on planets outside our solar system has largely been the province of the astrophysics community until recently. A major development since the NASA Astrobiology…
Exoplanet Biosignatures: A Framework for Their Assessment
David C. Catling, Joshua Krissansen-Totton, Nancy Y. Kiang +7
Finding life on exoplanets from telescopic observations is an ultimate goal of exoplanet science. Life produces gases and other substances, such as pigments, which can have distinc…