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Title: Habitable Zone


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Habitable Zone
  • Zone around a star where liquid water can exist
    on the surface of a terrestial-like planet
  • This zone depends on
  • the spectraltype , the mass , the age, . of the
    star
  • the orbit of the planet
  • the mass, the composition, the atmosphere , of
    the planet
  • the parameters of other planets in this system
    (mass, orbit, )

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Types of Habitable Zones
  • Hot-Jupiter type
  • (2) Solar system type
  • (3)(4) giant planet type habitable moon
  • or
    trojan planet

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Size of the habitable zone

based on the definition given by Kasting et
al. (1993).
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