Exoplanets: Interiors, Atmospheres, and the Search for Habitable Worlds

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Dec 2007

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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #211, #39.01; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 39, p.790

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We are on the horizon of answering the ancient questions: Do other Earths exist? Are they common? Are they habitable? If we are willing to carefully extend the definition of a habitable planet mass, size, and suitable surface conditions, the near-term opportunities for answering these questions are tremendous -- for the narrow subset of short-period super Earths transiting low-mass stars. I will summarize the new field of comparative exoplanetology with interpretation of the mass, radius, and atmosphere measurements of numbers of transiting hot Jupiters and one hot Neptune. I will highlight new theoretical advances extending such work to lower-mass exoplanets, showing how some properties will hinder our attempt and others will advance our quest to identify a habitable exoplanet. This work is supported by NASA and FQXI.

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