Water in Extrasolar Planets and Implications for Habitability

Habitability: A Review

(2016) C.S. Cockell et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Geophysical controls of chemical disequilibria in Europa

(2016) S. D. Vance et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

The diurnal libration and interior structure of Enceladus

(2016) Tim Van Hoolst et al.   ICARUS

Water-rich planets: How habitable is a water layer deeper than on Earth?

(2016) L. Noack et al.   ICARUS

Enceladus’s measured physical libration requires a global subsurface ocean

(2016) P.C. Thomas et al.   ICARUS

Habitable Evaporated Cores: Transforming Mini-Neptunes into Super-Earths in the Habitable Zones of M Dwarfs

(2015) R. Luger et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Combining high-dispersion spectroscopy with high contrast imaging: Probing rocky planets around our nearest neighbors

(2015) I. Snellen et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

The unstable CO2feedback cycle on ocean planets

(2015) D. Kitzmann et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

A continuum from clear to cloudy hot-Jupiter exoplanets without primordial water depletion

(2015) David K. Sing et al.   NATURE

Synthesis of phylogeny and taxonomy into a comprehensive tree of life

(2015) Cody E. Hinchliff et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Thirty Meter Telescope Detailed Science Case: 2015

(2015) Warren Skidmore et al.   Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Combining high-dispersion spectroscopy with high contrast imaging: Probing rocky planets around our nearest neighbors

(2015) I. Snellen et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

The search for a subsurface ocean in Ganymede with Hubble Space Telescope observations of its auroral ovals

(2015) Joachim Saur et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SPACE PHYSICS

Carbon monoxide and water vapor in the atmosphere of the non-transiting exoplanet HD 179949 b

(2014) M. Brogi et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

WATER VAPOR IN THE SPECTRUM OF THE EXTRASOLAR PLANET HD 189733b. I. THE TRANSIT

(2014) P. R. McCullough et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

NEAR-IR DIRECT DETECTION OF WATER VAPOR IN TAU BOÖTIS b

(2014) Alexandra C. Lockwood et al.   Astrophysical Journal Letters

MASSES, RADII, AND ORBITS OF SMALLKEPLERPLANETS: THE TRANSITION FROM GASEOUS TO ROCKY PLANETS

(2014) Geoffrey W. Marcy et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES

The PLATO 2.0 mission

(2014) H. Rauer et al.   EXPERIMENTAL ASTRONOMY

The tectonic mode of rocky planets: Part 1 – Driving factors, models & parameters

(2014) Vlada Stamenković et al.   ICARUS

Origin and loss of nebula-captured hydrogen envelopes from ‘sub’- to ‘super-Earths’ in the habitable zone of Sun-like stars

(2014) H. Lammer et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Water vapour absorption in the clear atmosphere of a Neptune-sized exoplanet

(2014) Jonathan Fraine et al.   NATURE

Fast spin of the young extrasolar planet β Pictoris b

(2014) Ignas A. G. Snellen et al.   NATURE

Episodic warming of early Mars by punctuated volcanism

(2014) Itay Halevy et al.   Nature Geoscience

Can the interior structure influence the habitability of a rocky planet?

(2014) L. Noack et al.   PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE

Ganymede׳s internal structure including thermodynamics of magnesium sulfate oceans in contact with ice

(2014) Steve Vance et al.   PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE

The K2 Mission: Characterization and Early Results

(2014) Steve B. Howell et al.   PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC

Mars methane detection and variability at Gale crater

(2014) C. R. Webster et al.   SCIENCE

Prospects of detecting the polarimetric signature of the Earth-mass planetαCentauri B b with SPHERE/ZIMPOL

(2013) J. Milli et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

On the radius of habitable planets

(2013) Y. Alibert   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

BULK COMPOSITION OF GJ 1214b AND OTHER SUB-NEPTUNE EXOPLANETS

(2013) Diana Valencia et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

HABITABLE ZONES AROUND MAIN-SEQUENCE STARS: NEW ESTIMATES

(2013) Ravi Kumar Kopparapu et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

INFRARED TRANSMISSION SPECTROSCOPY OF THE EXOPLANETS HD 209458b AND XO-1b USING THE WIDE FIELD CAMERA-3 ON THEHUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE

(2013) Drake Deming et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

EXOPLANET TRANSIT SPECTROSCOPY USING WFC3: WASP-12 b, WASP-17 b, AND WASP-19 b

(2013) Avi M. Mandell et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

HST hot Jupiter transmission spectral survey: detection of water in HAT-P-1b from WFC3 near-IR spatial scan observations

(2013) H. R. Wakeford et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Clouds in the atmosphere of the super-Earth exoplanet GJ 1214b

(2013) Laura Kreidberg et al.   NATURE

Plate tectonics on rocky exoplanets: Influence of initial conditions and mantle rheology

(2013) Lena Noack et al.   PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE

Biotic vs. abiotic Earth: A model for mantle hydration and continental coverage

(2013) Dennis Höning et al.   PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE

Detection of Carbon Monoxide and Water Absorption Lines in an Exoplanet Atmosphere

(2013) Q. M. Konopacky et al.   SCIENCE

Exoplanet Habitability

(2013) S. Seager   SCIENCE

Transient Water Vapor at Europa's South Pole

(2013) L. Roth et al.   SCIENCE

Rocky super-Earth interiors

(2012) F. W. Wagner et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Characterization of exoplanets from their formation

(2012) C. Mordasini et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Extrasolar planet population synthesis

(2012) C. Mordasini et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

GJ 1214 reviewed

(2012) G. Anglada-Escudé et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

How large is the subducted water flux? New constraints on mantle regassing rates

(2012) R. Parai et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

The influence of mantle internal heating on lithospheric mobility: Implications for super-Earths

(2012) C. Stein et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

The Tides of Titan

(2012) L. Iess et al.   SCIENCE

The naked planet Earth: Most essential pre-requisite for the origin and evolution of life

(2012) S. Maruyama et al.   Geoscience Frontiers

Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission

(2011) M. Deleuil et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

THERMAL EVOLUTION AND STRUCTURE MODELS OF THE TRANSITING SUPER-EARTH GJ 1214b

(2011) N. Nettelmann et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

KEPLER'S FIRST ROCKY PLANET: KEPLER-10b

(2011) Natalie M. Batalha et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Plate tectonics on super-Earths: Equally or more likely than on Earth

(2011) H.J. van Heck et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

A closely packed system of low-mass, low-density planets transiting Kepler-11

(2011) Jack J. Lissauer et al.   NATURE

Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission

(2010) J. Cabrera et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

THREE POSSIBLE ORIGINS FOR THE GAS LAYER ON GJ 1214b

(2010) L. A. Rogers et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

COLORS OF A SECOND EARTH: ESTIMATING THE FRACTIONAL AREAS OF OCEAN, LAND, AND VEGETATION OF EARTH-LIKE EXOPLANETS

(2010) Yuka Fujii et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

KEPLER MISSIONDESIGN, REALIZED PHOTOMETRIC PERFORMANCE, AND EARLY SCIENCE

(2010) David G. Koch et al.   Astrophysical Journal Letters

The orbital motion, absolute mass and high-altitude winds of exoplanet HD 209458b

(2010) Ignas A. G. Snellen et al.   NATURE

A Giant Planet Imaged in the Disk of the Young Star   Pictoris

(2010) A.- M. Lagrange et al.   SCIENCE

Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission

(2009) A. Léger et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

A STUDY OF THE ACCURACY OF MASS-RADIUS RELATIONSHIPS FOR SILICATE-RICH AND ICE-RICH PLANETS UP TO 100 EARTH MASSES

(2009) O. Grasset et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

A super-Earth transiting a nearby low-mass star

(2009) David Charbonneau et al.   NATURE

The Broadband Infrared Emission Spectrum of the Exoplanet HD 189733b

(2008) David Charbonneau et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

The long-term stability of a possible aqueous ammonium sulfate ocean inside Titan

(2008) P GRINDROD et al.   ICARUS

The presence of methane in the atmosphere of an extrasolar planet

(2008) Mark R. Swain et al.   NATURE

Strong water absorption in the dayside emission spectrum of the planet HD 189733b

(2008) Carl J. Grillmair et al.   NATURE

Direct Imaging of Multiple Planets Orbiting the Star HR 8799

(2008) C. Marois et al.   SCIENCE