Geophysical and atmospheric evolution of habitable planets

Helmut Lammer; Frank Selsis; Eric Chassefière; Doris Breuer; Jean Mathias Grießmeier; Yuri N. Kulikov; Nikolai V. Erkaev; Maxim L. Khodachenko; Helfried K. Biernat; Francois Leblanc; Esa Kallio; Richard Lundin; Frances Westall; Siegfried J. Bauer; Charles Beichman; William Danchi; Carlos Eiroa; Malcolm Fridlund; Hannes Gröller; Arnold Hanslmeier; Walter Hausleitner; Thomas Henning; Tom Herbst; Lisa Kaltenegger; Alain Léger; Martin Leitzinger; Herbert I.M. Lichtenegger; René Liseau; Jonathan Lunine; Uwe Motschmann; Petra Odert; Francesco Paresce; John Parnell; Alan Penny; Andreas Quirrenbach; Heike Rauer; Huub Röttgering; Jean Schneider; Tilman Spohn; Anja Stadelmann; Günter Stangl; Daphne Stam; Giovanna Tinetti; Glenn J. White

doi:10.1089/ast.2009.0368

Geophysical and atmospheric evolution of habitable planets

Helmut Lammer^* (Corresponding Author)
, Frank Selsis
, Eric Chassefière
, Doris Breuer
, Jean Mathias Grießmeier
, Yuri N. Kulikov
, Nikolai V. Erkaev
, Maxim L. Khodachenko
, Helfried K. Biernat
, Francois Leblanc
, Esa Kallio
, Richard Lundin
, Frances Westall
, Siegfried J. Bauer
, Charles Beichman
, William Danchi
, Carlos Eiroa
, Malcolm Fridlund
, Hannes Gröller
, Arnold Hanslmeier

Walter Hausleitner, Thomas Henning, Tom Herbst, Lisa Kaltenegger, Alain Léger, Martin Leitzinger, Herbert I.M. Lichtenegger, René Liseau, Jonathan Lunine, Uwe Motschmann, Petra Odert, Francesco Paresce, John Parnell, Alan Penny, Andreas Quirrenbach, Heike Rauer, Huub Röttgering, Jean Schneider, Tilman Spohn, Anja Stadelmann, Günter Stangl, Daphne Stam, Giovanna Tinetti, Glenn J. White

^*Corresponding author for this work

Geology and Geophysics

Austrian Academy of Sciences
Université de Bordeaux
Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
German Aerospace Center
Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy
Russian Academy of Sciences
RAS - Siberian Branch
Finnish Meteorological Institute
Uppsala University
CNRS
University of Graz
California Institute of Technology
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
ESTEC
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
Harvard University
Université Paris-Sud
Chalmers University of Technology
University of Arizona
Technical University of Braunschweig
Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Heidelberg University
Leiden University
Observatoire de Paris
SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research
University College London
Open University Milton Keynes

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Abstract

The evolution of Earth-like habitable planets is a complex process that depends on the geodynamical and geophysical environments. In particular, it is necessary that plate tectonics remain active over billions of years. These geophysically active environments are strongly coupled to a planet's host star parameters, such as mass, luminosity and activity, orbit location of the habitable zone, and the planet's initial water inventory. Depending on the host star's radiation and particle flux evolution, the composition in the thermosphere, and the availability of an active magnetic dynamo, the atmospheres of Earth-like planets within their habitable zones are differently affected due to thermal and nonthermal escape processes. For some planets, strong atmospheric escape could even effect the stability of the atmosphere.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	45-68
Number of pages	24
Journal	Astrobiology
Volume	10
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1089/ast.2009.0368
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2010

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The authors acknowledge the Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft, as this research has been supported by the Helmholtz Association through the research alliance “Planetary Evolution and Life,” the International Space Science Institute (ISSI, Bern, Switzerland) and the ISSI teams “Evolution of Habitable Planets” and “Evolution of Exoplanet Atmospheres and Their Characterization.” The authors also acknowledge fruitful discussions during various meetings related to the Europlanet N2 activities as well as within the N2 Discipline working groups DWG 4 and DWG 5. Furthermore, we acknowledge support by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, “Verwaltungsstelle für Auslandsbeziehungen,” and by the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Russian Federation. We thank also NASA for support via NAG5-13045 at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, USA. Furthermore, we acknowledge the Austrian FWF (Wissenschaftsfond) for supporting this work via the following projects: P20145-N16 and FWF-RFBR I 199-N16; N6, 09-02-91002-ANF-a.

Keywords

Atmosphere evolution
Geophysics
Habitability
Terrestrial planets

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Lammer, H., Selsis, F., Chassefière, E., Breuer, D., Grießmeier, J. M., Kulikov, Y. N., Erkaev, N. V., Khodachenko, M. L., Biernat, H. K., Leblanc, F., Kallio, E., Lundin, R., Westall, F., Bauer, S. J., Beichman, C., Danchi, W., Eiroa, C., Fridlund, M., Gröller, H., ... White, G. J. (2010). Geophysical and atmospheric evolution of habitable planets. Astrobiology, 10(1), 45-68. https://doi.org/10.1089/ast.2009.0368

Lammer, H, Selsis, F, Chassefière, E, Breuer, D, Grießmeier, JM, Kulikov, YN, Erkaev, NV, Khodachenko, ML, Biernat, HK, Leblanc, F, Kallio, E, Lundin, R, Westall, F, Bauer, SJ, Beichman, C, Danchi, W, Eiroa, C, Fridlund, M, Gröller, H, Hanslmeier, A, Hausleitner, W, Henning, T, Herbst, T, Kaltenegger, L, Léger, A, Leitzinger, M, Lichtenegger, HIM, Liseau, R, Lunine, J, Motschmann, U, Odert, P, Paresce, F, Parnell, J, Penny, A, Quirrenbach, A, Rauer, H, Röttgering, H, Schneider, J, Spohn, T, Stadelmann, A, Stangl, G, Stam, D, Tinetti, G & White, GJ 2010, 'Geophysical and atmospheric evolution of habitable planets', Astrobiology, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 45-68. https://doi.org/10.1089/ast.2009.0368

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