Bibcode
Montañés-Rodríguez, Pilar; Pallé, Enric
Bibliographical reference
Handbook of Exoplanets, ISBN 978-3-319-55332-0. Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature, 2018, id.56
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2018
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Description
For hundreds of years, the Solar System and its planetary bodies were
the only example in which to base our models of planet formation and
evolution. With the discovery of exoplanets, a much greater diversity of
planetary types and system architectures have been uncovered.
Nevertheless, the Solar System planets remain our best test bed to
understand planetary physics and interpret low signal-to-noise
exoplanetary observations. Here, we put the Solar System planets in
context to the broader planetary population in our galaxy and detail the
several observations of our Solar System planets that have been
performed with the goal of observing them as exoplanets. We pay special
attention to the only planet known to host life in our galaxy so far,
the Earth.
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Exoplanets and Astrobiology
The search for life in the universe has been driven by recent discoveries of planets around other stars (known as exoplanets), becoming one of the most active fields in modern astrophysics. The growing number of new exoplanets discovered in recent years and the recent advance on the study of their atmospheres are not only providing new valuable
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