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The Super-Earth Opportunity - Search for Habitable Exoplanets in the 2020s

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arxiv 1903.05258 v1 pith:ZHLIJ4DS submitted 2019-03-12 astro-ph.EP

The Super-Earth Opportunity - Search for Habitable Exoplanets in the 2020s

Renyu Hu , Charles A. Beichman , David Brain , Pin Chen , Mario Damiano , Rebekah Dawson , A. James Friedson , Yasuhiro Hasagawa
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The recent discovery of a staggering diversity of planets beyond the Solar System has brought with it a greatly expanded search space for habitable worlds. The Kepler exoplanet survey has revealed that most planets in our interstellar neighborhood are larger than Earth and smaller than Neptune. Collectively termed super-Earths and mini-Neptunes, some of these planets may have the conditions to support liquid water oceans, and thus Earth-like biology, despite differing in many ways from our own planet. In addition to their quantitative abundance, super-Earths are relatively large and are thus more easily detected than true Earth twins. As a result, super-Earths represent a uniquely powerful opportunity to discover and explore a panoply of fascinating and potentially habitable planets in 2020 - 2030 and beyond.

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