A Possible Aeronomy of Extrasolar Terrestrial Planets

Details A Possible Aeronomy of Extrasolar Terrestrial Planets A Possible Aeronomy of Extrasolar Terrestrial Planets

2002-05-22

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0205369v1

AGU Monograph 130, 2002, pg 369

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

This will appear in the upcoming AGU Monograph 130 "Atmospheres in the Solar System: Comparative Aeronomy". It will be on page

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Terrestrial planetary systems may exist around nearby stars as the Earth-sized counterparts to the many giant planets already discovered within the solar neighborhood. In this chapter we first discuss the numerous techniques which have been suggested to search for extrasolar terrestrial planets. We then focus on the expected results from that technique in which an orbiting telescope or interferometer is used to obtain a visible or infrared spectrum of a planet, without contamination from the parent star. We show examples of such spectra for selected cases: the present Earth, the Neoproterozoic (snowball) Earth, a methane-rich Earth, and the present Mars and Venus. We conclude by discussing the implications of such spectra for the detection of life on an extrasolar terrestrial planet.

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