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The Goldilocks Problem for Detecting Water in Terrestrial Planets: Constraining Water Abundances in the Mid-infrared with LIFE

  • Authors: S. Rugheimer, E. Alei, B.S. Konrad, B. Taysum, J. L. Grenfell, T. Lichtenberg, D. Kitzmann, F. van der Tak, S.P. Quanz

S. Rugheimer et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal 1003 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 1.

Water mixing ratios versus altitude for each of our three profile assumptions (left) and the temperature versus altitude profile (right). The surface mixing ratio of water is fixed, spanning concentrations from 10−7 to 1 bar. The water profile above the surface is modeled to be constant with height (top panel), an Earth-like profile (middle panel), or from only diffusion and photochemical production (bottom panel).

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