Exoplanet biosignatures: a review of remotely detectable signs of life

EW Schwieterman, NY Kiang, MN Parenteau… - Astrobiology, 2018 - liebertpub.com
In the coming years and decades, advanced space-and ground-based observatories will
allow an unprecedented opportunity to probe the atmospheres and surfaces of potentially …

The evolution of the solar wind

AA Vidotto - Living reviews in solar physics, 2021 - Springer
How has the solar wind evolved to reach what it is today? In this review, I discuss the long-
term evolution of the solar wind, including the evolution of observed properties that are …

Magnetism, rotation, and nonthermal emission in cool stars-Average magnetic field measurements in 292 M dwarfs

A Reiners, D Shulyak, PJ Käpylä, I Ribas… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Stellar dynamos generate magnetic fields that are of fundamental importance to the
variability and evolution of Sun-like and low-mass stars, and for the development of their …

The evaporation valley in the Kepler planets

JE Owen, Y Wu - The Astrophysical Journal, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
A new piece of evidence supporting the photoevaporation-driven evolution model for low-
mass, close-in exoplanets was recently presented by the California–Kepler Survey. The …

Stellar flares from the first TESS data release: exploring a new sample of M dwarfs

MN Günther, Z Zhan, S Seager… - The Astronomical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We perform a study of stellar flares for the 24,809 stars observed with 2 minute cadence
during the first two months of the TESS mission. Flares may erode exoplanets' atmospheres …

The active lives of stars: a complete description of the rotation and XUV evolution of F, G, K, and M dwarfs

CP Johnstone, M Bartel, M Güdel - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2021 - aanda.org
Aims. We study the evolution of the rotation and the high energy X-ray, extreme ultraviolet
(EUV), and Ly-α emission for F, G, K, and M dwarfs, with masses between 0.1 and 1.2 M⊙ …

The field substellar mass function based on the full-sky 20 pc census of 525 L, T, and Y dwarfs

JD Kirkpatrick, CR Gelino, JK Faherty… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present final Spitzer trigonometric parallaxes for 361 L, T, and Y dwarfs. We combine
these with prior studies to build a list of 525 known L, T, and Y dwarfs within 20 pc of the …

CARMENES input catalogue of M dwarfs-V. Luminosities, colours, and spectral energy distributions

C Cifuentes, JA Caballero, M Cortés-Contreras… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
Context. The relevance of M dwarfs in the search for potentially habitable Earth-sized
planets has grown significantly in the last years. Aims. In our on-going effort to …

The baryon oscillation spectroscopic survey of SDSS-III

KS Dawson, DJ Schlegel, CP Ahn… - The Astronomical …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) is designed to measure
the scale of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in the clustering of matter over a larger …

Extreme Water Loss and Abiotic O2 Buildup on Planets Throughout the Habitable Zones of M Dwarfs

R Luger, R Barnes - Astrobiology, 2015 - liebertpub.com
We show that terrestrial planets in the habitable zones of M dwarfs older than∼ 1 Gyr could
have been in runaway greenhouses for several hundred million years following their …