HABITABLE ZONES AROUND LOW MASS STARS AND THE SEARCH FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE

James F. Kasting

doi:10.1023/A:1006586517202

HABITABLE ZONES AROUND LOW MASS STARS AND THE SEARCH FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE

James F. Kasting

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Habitable planets are likely to exist around stars nottoo different from the Sun if current theories about terrestrialclimate evolution are correct. Some of these planets may have evolved life, and some of the inhabited planets may have evolved O₂-rich atmospheres. Such atmospheres could be detectedspectroscopically on planets around nearby stars using a space-based interferometer to search for the 9.6μm band of O₃.Planets with O₂-rich atmospheres that lie within the habitable zone around their parent star are, in all probability, inhabited.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	291-307
Number of pages	17
Journal	Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres
Volume	27
Issue number	1-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006586517202
State	Published - Jun 1997

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