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Class Announcements:
2018-11-29: Papers from class today were the
following: "Inevitability
of Plate Tectonics on
Super-Earths", "Geological
consequences of super-sized Earths",
and "Volcanism
and outgassing of stagnant-lid planets: Implications for the habitable
zone".
2018-11-27: Papers from class today were the following:
"Detection
of a Millimeter Flare from Proxima
Centauri", "Frequent
Flaring in the TRAPPIST-1 System—Unsuited for
Life?", "The
Stellar Activity of TRAPPIST-1 and Consequences for the Planetary
Atmospheres", "Extreme
Water Loss and Abiotic O2Buildup on Planets Throughout the Habitable
Zones of M
Dwarfs", "Impacts
of stellar evolution and dynamics on the habitable zone: The role of
rotation and magnetic
activity", "Radial
velocity planet detection biases at the stellar rotational
period", "A
False Planet around HD
192263", "Stellar
Activity Mimics a Habitable-zone Planet around Kapteyn's Star",
and "Stellar
Activity and Exclusion of the Outer Planet in the HD 99492
System".
2018-11-20: Papers from class today were the metallicity
papers
("The
Planet-Metallicity Correlation",
"An
abundance of small exoplanets around stars with a wide range of
metallicities", "Compact
Multi-planet Systems are more Common around Metal-poor Hosts") and
the papers describing the effects of giants planets on impacts
("The
Influence of Outer Solar System Architecture on the Structure and
Evolution of the Oort
Cloud", "Jupiter:
Cosmic Jekyll and
Hyde", "Giant
Planets: Good Neighbors for Habitable Worlds?"). Also, take a look
at Jonti Horner's description of
the Jupiter:
Friend or Foe topic.
The two papers mentioned in class today were
the review
paper "Venus:
The Atmosphere, Climate, Surface, Interior and Near-Space Environment
of an Earth-Like Planet", and the stagnant-lid
paper "Carbon
Cycling and Habitability of Earth-Sized Stagnant Lid Planets".
2018-11-13: The two papers mentioned in class today were
the review
paper "Venus:
The Atmosphere, Climate, Surface, Interior and Near-Space Environment
of an Earth-Like Planet", and the stagnant-lid
paper "Carbon
Cycling and Habitability of Earth-Sized Stagnant Lid Planets".
2018-11-01: Check out the following paper regarding the
detection of sub-surface
oceans: "Constraints
on the detection of cryovolcanic plumes on Europa", and also this
paper regarding energy budgets of
moons: "Exomoon
Habitability Constrained by Illumination and Tidal Heating".
2018-10-24: Thousands of images of Mars acquired with the
HiRISE camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) can be
found here.
2018-10-23: I encourage reading the following review
paper: "The
Habitability of Our Earth and Other Earths: Astrophysical,
Geochemical, Geophysical, and Biological Limits on Planet
Habitability".
2018-10-18: The two additional papers discussed in today's
class
are "Habitable
Zone Dependence on Stellar Parameter Uncertainties"
and "The
Catalog of Earth-Like Exoplanet Survey Targets (CELESTA): A Database
of Habitable Zones Around Nearby Stars".
2018-10-16: A useful resource for telluric line lists can be
found in the HITRAN Database.
2018-10-11: I highly recommend taking a look at the recent
tutorial on
"How to Characterize the
Atmosphere of a Transiting Exoplanet". Also, for next week's
classes, check out the
two relevant papers
regarding Habitable Zones.
2018-10-10: The most recent exoplanet mass-radius
relationship can be found in this
paper: "Probabilistic
Forecasting of the Masses and Radii of Other Worlds".
2018-10-09: The mass-radius relationship discussed in class
is from this
paper: "The
Mass-Radius Relation for 65 Exoplanets Smaller than 4 Earth
Radii".
2018-10-08: There are useful resources regarding planetary
interior models
at Li Zeng's
web site.
2018-09-26: Interesting review paper
on "The Inner Solar System's
Habitability Through Time".
2018-09-13: Class announcements will appear here
periodically.
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