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ESA White paper: Atmospheric modeling: Setting Biomarkers in context

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 نشر من قبل Lisa Kaltenegger
 تاريخ النشر 2008
  مجال البحث فيزياء
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Motivation: ESAs goal to detect biomarkers in Earth-like exoplanets in the Habitable Zone requires theoretical groundwork that needs to be done to model the influence of different parameters on the detectable biomarkers. We need to model a wide parameter space (chemical composition, pressure, evolution, interior structure and outgassing, clouds) to generate a grid of models that inform our detection strategy as well as can help characterize the spectra of the small rocky planets detected.

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