A New Family of Planets ? "Ocean Planets"

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2003-08-19

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0308324v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

15 pages, 3 figures submitted to Icarus notes (10 july 2003)

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.icarus.2004.01.001

A new family of planets is considered which is between rochy terrestrial planets and gaseous giant ones: "Ocean-Planets". We present the possible formation, composition and internal models of these putative planets, including that of their ocean, as well as their possible Exobiology interest. These planets should be detectable by planet detection missions such as Eddington and Kepler, and possibly COROT (lauch scheduled in 2006). They would be ideal targets for spectroscopic missions such as Darwin/TPF.

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