Red Dwarfs Their Geological, Chemical, and Biological Potential for Life /

• Main Author: Stevenson, David S. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Astrobiology.; Planetology.

This thought-provoking book looks at the nature of red dwarf systems as potential homes for life. Realistically, what are the prospects for life on these distant worlds? Could life evolve and survive there? How do these planetary surfaces and geologies evolve? How would life on a planet orbiting a r...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Chapter 1: The Formation of Stars and Planets at the Bottom of the Main Sequence
• Chapter 2: Exoplanetary Discovery
• Chapter 3: Planetary Tectonism
• Chapter 4: Deep Cycles and Super-Terrans
• Chapter 5: Atmospheric Circulation and Climate
• Chapter 6: The Origin and Early Evolution of Life
• Chapter 7: The Niche, Its Hypervolume and the Entropy of Existence
• Chapter 8: The Failure of Early Optimism
• Chapter 9: A New Hope
• Glossary
• Index.