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Tarter JC Backus PR Mancinelli RL Aurnou JM Backman DE Basri GS Boss AP Clarke A Deming D Doyle LR Feigelson ED Freund F Grinspoon DH Haberle RM Hauck SA Heath MJ Henry TJ Hollingsworth JL Joshi MM Kilston S Liu MC Meikle E Reid IN Rothschild LJ Scalo J Segura A Tang CM Tiedje JM Turnbull MC Walkowicz LM Weber AL Young RE 《Astrobiology》2007,7(1):30-65
Stable, hydrogen-burning, M dwarf stars make up about 75% of all stars in the Galaxy. They are extremely long-lived, and because they are much smaller in mass than the Sun (between 0.5 and 0.08 M(Sun)), their temperature and stellar luminosity are low and peaked in the red. We have re-examined what is known at present about the potential for a terrestrial planet forming within, or migrating into, the classic liquid-surface-water habitable zone close to an M dwarf star. Observations of protoplanetary disks suggest that planet-building materials are common around M dwarfs, but N-body simulations differ in their estimations of the likelihood of potentially habitable, wet planets that reside within their habitable zones, which are only about one-fifth to 1/50th of the width of that for a G star. Particularly in light of the claimed detection of the planets with masses as small as 5.5 and 7.5 M(Earth) orbiting M stars, there seems no reason to exclude the possibility of terrestrial planets. Tidally locked synchronous rotation within the narrow habitable zone does not necessarily lead to atmospheric collapse, and active stellar flaring may not be as much of an evolutionarily disadvantageous factor as has previously been supposed. We conclude that M dwarf stars may indeed be viable hosts for planets on which the origin and evolution of life can occur. A number of planetary processes such as cessation of geothermal activity or thermal and nonthermal atmospheric loss processes may limit the duration of planetary habitability to periods far shorter than the extreme lifetime of the M dwarf star. Nevertheless, it makes sense to include M dwarf stars in programs that seek to find habitable worlds and evidence of life. This paper presents the summary conclusions of an interdisciplinary workshop (http://mstars.seti.org) sponsored by the NASA Astrobiology Institute and convened at the SETI Institute. 相似文献
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Martin M. Sirk Eric J. Korpela Yuzo Ishikawa Jerry Edelstein Edward H. Wishnow Christopher Smith Jeremy McCauley Jason B. McPhate James Curtis Travis Curtis Steven R. Gibson Sharon Jelinsky Jeffrey A. Lynn Mario Marckwordt Nathan Miller Michael Raffanti William Van Shourt Andrew W. Stephan Thomas J. Immel 《Space Science Reviews》2017,212(1-2):631-643
We present the design, implementation, and on-ground performance measurements of the Ionospheric Connection Explorer EUV spectrometer, ICON EUV, a wide field (\(17^{\circ}\times 12^{\circ}\)) extreme ultraviolet (EUV) imaging spectrograph designed to observe the lower ionosphere at tangent altitudes between 100 and 500 km. The primary targets of the spectrometer, which has a spectral range of 54–88 nm, are the Oii emission lines at 61.6 nm and 83.4 nm. Its design, using a single optical element, permits a imaging resolution perpendicular to the spectral dispersion direction with a large (\(12^{\circ} \)) acceptance parallel to the dispersion direction while providing a slit-width dominated spectral resolution of \(R\sim25\) at 58.4 nm. Pre-flight calibration shows that the instrument has met all of the science performance requirements. 相似文献
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Jean-Loup Bertaux Erkki Kyrölä Eric Quemerais Rosine Lallement Walter Schmidt Tuula Summanen Jorge Costa Teemu Mäkinen 《Space Science Reviews》1999,87(1-2):129-132
SWAN is the first space instrument dedicated to the monitoring of the latitude distribution of the solar wind by the Lyman
alpha method. The distribution of interstellar H atoms in the solar system is determined by their destruction during ionization
charge-exchange with solar wind protons. Maps of sky Ly-α emission have been recorded regularly since launch. The upwind maximum
emission region deviates strongly from the pattern that would be expected from a solar wind that is constant with latitude.
It is divided in two lobes by a depression aligned with the solar equatorial plane, called the Lyman-alpha groove, due to
enhanced ionization along the neutral sheet where the slow and dense solar wind is concentrated. The groove (or the anisotropy)
is more pronounced in 1997 than in 1996, but it then decreases between 1997 and 1998.
This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献