
Earth-like Exoplanets
Description
Key Features
- Includes a broad ranging survey of the emerging field of exoplanets and the potential for life in the Universe
- Offers both a comprehensive introduction to, and a modern review of, the coupled field of exoplanet astrobiology
- Highlights exoplanet reviews from experts in the field
Readership
Investigators in any area of exoplanets or astrobiology, who will find this book to be both a comprehensive introduction to and a modern review of the coupled field of exoplanet astrobiology. Exoplanet enthusiasts, without the astrobiology component, will also be attracted to this book because it will include expert exoplanet reviews
Table of Contents
Exoplanets – What Have We Found and What is on the Horizon?
1. Kepler’s Planet Discoveries and Beyond
Natalia Batalia
2. Tess Planet Finder for Nearby Stars
George RickerHabitability of Exoplanets
3. Updated Habitable Zone Definitions
J. Laconte
4. The abundance of non-water seas in rocky worlds
Fernando J. Ballesteros
5. The Binary Habitability Mechanism
Jorge ZuluagaDetection of Biomarkers vs. False Positives
6. Can lightning spectra be a biomarker for Earth-like exoplanets?
Aleksandra Ardaseva
7. Detectability of open seas and their reflection spectra on exoplanets
Pieter Visser
8. Challenges of reading biomarkers from exoplanet atmospheres during transits
Abraham LoebThe Origin of Organic Matter and Life, In-situ or Panspermia?
9. A survey of solar system and galactic objects with pristine surfaces that record history and perhaps panspermia, with a plan for exploration
Branislav Vukotic and Richard Gordon
10. Panspermia: A panoply of possibilities
Clement VidalExtremophiles – Alternate Evolutionary Pathways
11. Can there be a Rogue Earth?
Chaitanya Giri
12. Comparison of the multidimensional niches inhabited by Earth extremophiles with the multidimensional spectrum of exoplanets
Adrienne Kish and Charles CockellLife on Exoplanets over Cosmic Time
13. Habitable and super-habitable exoplanets
Paul A. Mason
Product details
- No. of pages: 550
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2029
- Published: December 1, 2019
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128158920