The Importance of the Upper Atmosphere to CO/O2 Runaway on Habitable Planets Orbiting Low-mass Stars
Efforts to spectrally characterize the atmospheric compositions of temperate terrestrial exoplanets orbiting M dwarf stars with JWST are now underway. Key molecular targets of such searches include O _2 and CO, which are potential indicators of life. Recently, it was proposed that CO _2 photolysis g...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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IOP Publishing
2023-01-01
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| Series: | The Astrophysical Journal Letters |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ad037c |