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Astrophysics and Astronomy

2017

Stars: late-type

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Spectrophotometrically Identified Stars In The Pears-N And Pears-S Fields., N. Pirzkal, A. J. Burgasser, S. Malhotra, Benne W. Holwerda, K. C. Sahu, J. E. Rhoads, C. Xu, J. J. Bochanski, J. R. Walsh, R. A. Windhorst, N. P. Hathi, S. H. Cohen Mar 2017

Spectrophotometrically Identified Stars In The Pears-N And Pears-S Fields., N. Pirzkal, A. J. Burgasser, S. Malhotra, Benne W. Holwerda, K. C. Sahu, J. E. Rhoads, C. Xu, J. J. Bochanski, J. R. Walsh, R. A. Windhorst, N. P. Hathi, S. H. Cohen

Benne Holwerda

Deep ACS slitless grism observations and identification of stellar sources are presented within the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey North and South fields which were obtained in the Probing Evolution And Reionization Spectroscopically (PEARS) program. It is demonstrated that even low-resolution spectra can be a very powerful means of identifying stars in the field, especially low-mass stars with stellar types M0 and later. The PEARS fields lay within the larger GOODS fields, and we used new, deeper images to further refine the selection of stars in the PEARS field, down to a magnitude of z850 = 25 using a newly …


How Hospitable Are Space Weather Affected Habitable Zones? The Role Of Ion Escape, Vladimir S. Airapetian, Alex Glocer, George V. Khazanov, Robert O Parke Loyd, Kevin France, Jan Josef Sojka, William C. Danchi, Michael W. Liemohn Feb 2017

How Hospitable Are Space Weather Affected Habitable Zones? The Role Of Ion Escape, Vladimir S. Airapetian, Alex Glocer, George V. Khazanov, Robert O Parke Loyd, Kevin France, Jan Josef Sojka, William C. Danchi, Michael W. Liemohn

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Atmospheres of exoplanets in the habitable zones around active young G-K-M stars are subject to extreme X-ray and EUV (XUV) fluxes from their host stars that can initiate atmospheric erosion. Atmospheric loss affects exoplanetary habitability in terms of surface water inventory, atmospheric pressure, the efficiency of greenhouse warming, and the dosage of the UV surface irradiation. Thermal escape models suggest that exoplanetary atmospheres around active K-M stars should undergo massive hydrogen escape, while heavier species including oxygen will accumulate forming an oxidizing atmosphere. Here, we show that non-thermal oxygen ion escape could be as important as thermal, hydrodynamic H escape …