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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 3.

HZ limits for different planetary masses. The inner HZ for Earth (green curve) is scaled with the Leconte et al. (2013) inner HZ for the Sun, using our runaway greenhouse limit. The outer HZ is the maximum greenhouse limit. The tidal locking radius (black dot), assuming a 4.5 Gyr tidal locking timescale, separates rapidly rotating planets with tidally locked ones. The inner-edge limits for tidal-locked planets around cool stars from Yang et al. (2013) are also shown (colored squares).

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