Geophysical and Atmospheric Evolution of Habitable Planets
Journal article, 2010

The evolution of Earth-like habitable planets is a complex process that depends on the geodynamical and geophysical environments. In particular, it is necessary that plate tectonics remain active over billions of years. These geophysically active environments are strongly coupled to a planet's host star parameters, such as mass, luminosity and activity, orbit location of the habitable zone, and the planet's initial water inventory. Depending on the host star's radiation and particle flux evolution, the composition in the thermosphere, and the availability of an active magnetic dynamo, the atmospheres of Earth-like planets within their habitable zones are differently affected due to thermal and nonthermal escape processes. For some planets, strong atmospheric escape could even effect the stability of the atmosphere.

Author

H. Lammer

Institut fur Weltraumforschung

F. Selsis

University of Bordeaux

E. Chassefière

Institute Pierre Simon Laplace

D. Breuer

German Aerospace Center (DLR)

J.M. Grießmeier

Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON)

Y. N. Kulikov

Russian Academy of Sciences

N. V. Erkaev

Russian Academy of Sciences

M. L. Khodachenko

Institut fur Weltraumforschung

H. K. Biernat

Institut fur Weltraumforschung

F. Leblanc

Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)

E. Kallio

Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI)

R. Lundin

The Swedish Institute of Space Physics

F. Westall

CBM Centre de Biophysique Moleculaire

S. J. Bauer

University of Graz

C. Beichman

California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

W. Danchi

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

C. Eiroa

Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (UAM)

M. Fridlund

European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESA ESTEC)

H. Gröller

Institut fur Weltraumforschung

A. Hanslmeier

University of Graz

W. Hausleitner

Institut fur Weltraumforschung

T. Henning

Max Planck Society

T. Herbst

Max Planck Society

L. Kaltenegger

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

A. Léger

University of Paris-Sud

M. Leitzinger

University of Graz

H. I. M. Lichtenegger

Institut fur Weltraumforschung

René Liseau

Chalmers, Department of Radio and Space Science, Radio Astronomy and Astrophysics

J. Lunine

University of Arizona

U. Motschmann

Technische Universität Braunschweig

German Aerospace Center (DLR)

P. Odert

University of Graz

F. Paresce

Istituto nazionale di astrofisica (INAF)

J. Parnell

University of Aberdeen

A. Penny

STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

A. Quirrenbach

Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory

H. Rauer

German Aerospace Center (DLR)

H.J.A. Rottgering

Leiden University

J. Schneider

Observatoire de Paris-Meudon

T. Spohn

German Aerospace Center (DLR)

A. Stadelmann

Technische Universität Braunschweig

G. Stangl

Institut fur Weltraumforschung

D. Stam

Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON)

G. Tinetti

University College London (UCL)

G. J. White

STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

Open University

Astrobiology

1531-1074 (ISSN)

Vol. 10 1 45-68

Subject Categories

Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology

Roots

Basic sciences

DOI

10.1089/ast.2009.0368

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