Oxygen False Positives on Habitable Zone Planets Around Sun‐Like Stars

Abstract Oxygen is a promising exoplanet biosignature due to the evolutionary advantage conferred by harnessing starlight for photosynthesis, and the apparent low likelihood of maintaining oxygen‐rich atmospheres without life. Hypothetical scenarios have been proposed for non‐biological oxygen accum...

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Main Authors: Joshua Krissansen‐Totton, Jonathan J. Fortney, Francis Nimmo, Nicholas Wogan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2021-06-01
Series:AGU Advances
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1029/2020AV000294