ESA's Rosetta spacecraft What are habitable exoplanets? Is there an Earth 2.0?
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1 ESA's Rosetta spacecraft What are habitable exoplanets? Is there an Earth 2.0? Christina Hedges (Institute of Astronomy)
2 For the past 20 years, since the discovery of planets outside our solar system, we have been searching for Earth 2.0. In this talk we ll explore what makes our own planet Earth such a haven for life and what this really means for the habitability of Earth 2.0. We ll be talking about our solar system, exoplanet atmospheres, why Earth is covered in water and extinction events in our history.
3 Types of Planet Image Credit: aviewfromtheright.com
4 What makes Earth Habitable? Water Definition: The Habitable Zone is the distance a planet could orbit a star and have liquid water. But there is a crucial difference between habitable zone and a planet being able to support life.
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6 But where is all the water from? To Outer Planets Inner Planets Asteroid Belt
7 Energy Water Trapping Trapping Ozone Layer Cosmic Ray Shielding Weather Systems Atmosphere Tectonics Water Cycle Surface Water Earth All of is in these habitable and more zone but is also capable of supporting life. What Water are required for [our] Temperature allows earth Comet to Delivery inhabited planet. Outer do this? Extremes Temperature Gravity Structure Planets Star Type Long Term Solar Activity Life Protection Stability Solar Wind Shielding from Moon Protection Tides Water LHB Delivery
8 How do we push this definition further? Is this a good definition? The habitable zone is very useful for statistical measurements, for example Kepler. However to answer the question of life it s lacking. The habitable zone is a good definition for its current use but doesn t tell us about supporting This definition is loose. We can muddle the numbers in order to get early Mars into the life. habitable zone but it doesn t give us an idea of whether it could support life. This definition is too simple to move from habitable zone straight to potentially habitable planet.
9 What now? Astrophysics plays a huge role in what makes a planet able to support life but it is a very hard quantity to define. There are other aspects that we can t account for by just looking at astronomy as we don t understand the origin of life. To understand what we need to support life we can only look at the history of life on Earth.
10 Kick-starting the Solar System We live in a nice neighbourhood. The local bubble is highly enriched thanks to older stars. Implications for life hosting planets: Heavy elements are required for anything more than the most basic life. The initial balance of carbon, oxygen and hydrogen in the system is very important for the future prospects of the planet. These starting parameters are important for our system. Heavy elements give us the right structure and chemistry in our planets. Image Credit: NASA IBEX Mission
11 The Start of Life on Earth Life needs a certain amount of time to get started. The first single-celled life arose 1 billion years after the start of the solar system. Life on earth Implications had a dramatic for life impact hosting on the planets: atmosphere from this point. Early The life earth requires went a starting through time a primordial on the right planet. atmosphere which was then changed by geological processing and was then altered by life in the Oxygenation Event. Early life can have a phenomenal and lasting impression on the atmosphere This caused havoc, changing the earth in ways we clearly still feel today, altering the atmosphere, land and oceans. This potentially destroyed anaerobic life and gave way to the dominance of aerobic life ever since.
12 Feedback and the Ice Ages Temperatures Cool Implications for life: Feedback loops are hard to break. Less Energy Received Ice Forms Sunlight Reflected Away
13 Rise and Fall of Life on Earth. The Ordovician-Silurian extinction Early marine animals e.g. Trilobites. 439 Million Years Ago. 25% of Marine Families and 60% of Marine Genera The Late Devonian Extinction Plants become dominant species modifying the planet as they move to land. 364 Million Years Ago. 22% of Marine Families and 57% of Marine Genera The Permian-Triassic Extinction Early vertebrates evolve from marine creatures and move to land evolving from tetrapods to reptiles in the Permian. 251 Million Years Ago. 95% of all species. Marine and Land including plants, insects and vertebrates. The End Triassic-Extinction Common Extinction Misconceptions: Implications for life: Extinctions are quick Life Extinctions finds a way effect everyone equally Meteors cause extinctions and kill dinosaurs. 200 Million Early Years Ago dinosaurs.22% of Marine and large Families marine and 57% animals of Marine Genera. Many vertebrates also extinct. The Cretaceous- Tertiary Extinction 65 Million Years Ago.16% of Marine Families, 47% of Marine Genera and 18% Reptiles and dinosaurs most successful, mammals are small of land vertebrates (dinosaurs). Or a gamma ray Tectonic activity burst shifts continent to Perhaps poles. due to Short bursts plants of over temperature oxygenating change. Contributions Massive from CH extinction from 4 volcanoes Continuation of volcanic activity Massive Marine A giant Regression impact
14 What do these have in common? Climate Change Colder Hotter Freezing ices, higher Melting ice, forest fires, Climate change reflectivity is responsible and for or directly linked desertification, to all more heat mass extinction events. Just like feedback from CO the 2 increases reflected away snowball earth this causes a sharp change in the environment over a long time which can be difficult to get out of.
15 Where do we fit in?
16 Habitable Zone around Other Stars
17 Habitable Zone Candidates
18 Future Missions K2 TESS CHEOPS PLATO JWST
19 Habitability is a hotly debated area of exoplanet astronomy. There are new habitable planets coming up regularly and there will only be more in the future Updating our definition of habitability will need huge amounts of data
20 Biosignatures Biosignatures are tell-tale signs of life. Red Edge Over abundances of molecules Methane, Oxygen, Ozone Spectral Markers This is highly debated. Unfortunately Biosignatures need to be unique. You can find them from geological processing.
21 Time Evolving Habitable Zone Stars evolve, changing their habitable zone. This has given us the faint young sun paradox.
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