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Habitable Zones around Main-sequence Stars: Dependence on Planetary Mass

Authors: Ravi Kumar Kopparapu, Ramses M. Ramirez, James SchottelKotte, James F. Kasting, Shawn Domagal-Goldman, and Vincent Eymet

Kopparapu et al. 2014 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 787 L29.

Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 2.

Similar to Figure 1, but here pN₂ is scaled according to the planet mass as described by Equation (3). The net effect is that the inner edge of the HZ (left-bottom panel) moves closer to the star for a massive planet and the outer edge of the HZ (right-bottom panel) changes little.

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