Habitable zone lifetimes of exoplanets around main sequence stars

Astrobiology

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 833-849

  Rushby, Andrew J ^a   Claire, Mark W ^a,b   Osborn, Hugh ^c   Watson, Andrew J ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Continuously habitable zone; Exoplanet habitability metrics; Planetary habitability; Stellar evolution

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTROBIOLOGY; ASTRONOMY; LUMINESCENCE; MICROCLIMATE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

EARTH (PLANET); EXOBIOLOGY; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; LINEAR MODELS; LUMINESCENCE; MARS; PLANETS; STARS, CELESTIAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84884564579     PISSN: 15311074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ast.2012.0938     Document Type: Article

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