SIM-Lite detection of habitable planets in P-type binary-planetary systems

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaopei Pan ◽  
Michael Shao ◽  
Stuart Shaklan ◽  
Renaud Goullioud
Keyword(s):  
Planetary Systems ◽  
Habitable Planets ◽  
P Type

scholarly journals Exploring the Cosmic Context of Earth

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (S293) ◽  
pp. 77-83
Author(s):  
Martin Dominik
Keyword(s):  
Solar System ◽  
Milky Way ◽  
Planetary Systems ◽  
Habitable Planets ◽  
Detection Techniques ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Gravitational Microlensing ◽  
Comprehensive Picture ◽  
Formation And Evolution

AbstractStudying the amazingly diverse planet zoo provides us with unprecedented opportunities for understanding planet Earth and ultimately ourselves. An assessment of a planet's “habitability” reflects our Earth-centric prejudice and can serve to prioritise targets to actually search for signatures of life similar to ours. The probability for life beyond Earth to exist however remains unknown, and studies on habitability or statistics of planetary systems do not change this. But we can leave speculation behind, and embark on a journey of exploration. A sample of detected cosmic habitats would provide us with insight on the conditions for life to emerge, develop, and sustain, but disentangling the biota fraction from the duration of the biotic era would depend particularly on our knowledge about the dynamics of planetary systems. Apart from the fact that planets usually do not come alone, we also must not forget that the minor bodies in the Solar system vastly outnumber the planets. A focus on just what we might consider “habitable” planets is too narrow to understand their formation and evolution. While uniqueness prevents understanding, we need to investigate the context and embrace diversity. A comprehensive picture of planet populations can only arise by exploiting a variety of different detection techniques, where not only Kepler but also gravitational microlensing can now enter hitherto uncharted territory below the mass or size of the Earth. There is actually no shortage of planets, the Milky Way alone may host hundreds of billions, and so far we have found only about 1000.

scholarly journals Formation of Habitable Planets in Inclined Planetary Systems

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (S293) ◽  
pp. 238-240
Author(s):  
Jianghui Ji ◽  
Sheng Jin
Keyword(s):  
Late Stage ◽  
Planetary Systems ◽  
Numerical Results ◽  
The Other ◽  
Terrestrial Planets ◽  
Habitable Zone ◽  
Planetary Formation ◽  
Habitable Planets ◽  
Final Assembly ◽  
Inner Region

AbstractWe extensively investigate the terrestrial planetary formation for the inclined planetary systems (considering the OGLE-2006-BLG-109L system as example) in the late stage. In the simulations, we show that the occurrence of terrestrial planets appears to be common in the final assembly stage. Moreover, we find that a lot of runs finally occupy at least one planet in the habitable zone (HZ). On the other hand, the numerical results also indicate that the inner region of the planetesimal disk, ranging from ~ 0.1 to 0.3 AU, plays an important role in building up terrestrial planets. The outcomes suggest that it may exist moderate possibility for the inclined systems to harbor terrestrial planets in the HZ.

scholarly journals Survival of habitable planets in unstable planetary systems

2016 ◽  
Vol 463 (3) ◽  
pp. 3226-3238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Carrera ◽  
Melvyn B. Davies ◽  
Anders Johansen
Keyword(s):  
Planetary Systems ◽  
Habitable Planets

scholarly journals Habitable planet formation in extreme planetary systems: systems with multiple stars and/or multiple planets

2007 ◽  
Vol 3 (S249) ◽  
pp. 319-324
Author(s):  
Nader Haghighipour
Keyword(s):  
Binary Stars ◽  
Binary Systems ◽  
Planet Formation ◽  
Planetary Systems ◽  
Dynamical Evolution ◽  
Giant Planets ◽  
Habitable Planets ◽  
Multiple Stars ◽  
Habitable Zones ◽  
Habitable Planet

AbstractUnderstanding the formation and dynamical evolution of habitable planets in extrasolar planetary systems is a challenging task. In this respect, systems with multiple giant planets and/or multiple stars present special complications. The formation of habitable planets in these environments is strongly affected by the dynamics of their giant planets and/or their stellar companions. These objects have profound effects on the structure of the disk of planetesimals and protoplanetary objects in which terrestrial-class planets are formed. To what extent the current theories of planet formation can be applied to such “extreme” planetary systems depends on the dynamical characteristics of their planets and/or their binary stars. In this paper, I present the results of a study of the possibility of the existence of Earth-like objects in systems with multiple giant planets (namely υ Andromedae, 47 UMa, GJ 876, and 55 Cnc) and discuss the dynamics of the newly discovered Neptune-sized object in 55 Cnc system. I will also review habitable planet formation in binary systems and present the results of a systematic search of the parameter-space for which Earth-like objects can form and maintain long-term stable orbits in the habitable zones of binary stars.

Measuring the effect of an astrobiology course on student optimism regarding extraterrestrial life

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
David L. Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Origin Of Life ◽  
Planetary Systems ◽  
Student Beliefs ◽  
Extraterrestrial Life ◽  
Habitable Planets ◽  
The Galaxy ◽  
Post Test ◽  
The Origin Of Life

AbstractStudents in an introductory undergraduate Astrobiology course were given a pre/post-test based on the Drake Equation in an attempt to measure changes in their perceptions regarding the prevalence of life in the Galaxy after taking the course. The results indicated that, after taking the course, the students were considerably more optimistic, by a 2 to 1 margin or more, about the prospect of habitable planets, the origin of life, and the evolution of intelligence in other planetary systems. The results suggest that, while it may not be the explicit goal of an astrobiology course to change student beliefs about the abundance or rarity of extraterrestrial life, such changes in opinion can and do occur.

scholarly journals New Insights into the Dynamics of Planets in P-Type Motion Around Binaries

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (S282) ◽  
pp. 446-447
Author(s):  
Barbara Funk ◽  
Siegfried Eggl ◽  
Markus Gyergyovits ◽  
Richard Schwarz ◽  
Elke Pilat-Lohinger
Keyword(s):  
Observational Data ◽  
Extrasolar Planets ◽  
Giant Planet ◽  
Planetary Systems ◽  
Large Percentage ◽  
Stellar Systems ◽  
Extrasolar Systems ◽  
Different Types ◽  
M Stars ◽  
P Type

AbstractUp to now, more than 500 extra-solar planets have been discovered. Many of these extrasolar systems consist of one star and only one giant planet. However, recently more and more different types of systems have become known, including also extrasolar planets in binaries. In our study, we will concentrate on such systems, since a large percentage of all G-M stars are expected to be part of binary or multiple stellar systems. Therefore, these kinds of systems are worthy of investigation in detail. In particular, we will concentrate on planets in P-Type motion, where the planet orbits around both stars. During the last few years, four such systems (NN Ser, HW Vir, HU Aqr and DP Leo) have been discovered. In our study, we performed dynamical studies for three multi-planetary systems in binaries (NN Ser, HW Vir, HU Aqr), and compared simulated eclipse timing variations (ETV) to current observational data.

Interface morphology of thermal oxide grown on polycrystalline silicon by different processes

1992 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 1396-1397
Author(s):  
H. Yen ◽  
E. P. Kvam ◽  
R. Bashir ◽  
S. Venkatesan ◽  
G. W. Neudeck
Keyword(s):  
Integrated Circuits ◽  
Polycrystalline Silicon ◽  
Silicon Films ◽  
Interface Morphology ◽  
Oxide Interface ◽  
Poly Silicon ◽  
Thermal Oxide ◽  
Grain Orientations ◽  
Polycrystalline Silicon Films ◽  
P Type

Polycrystalline silicon, when highly doped, is commonly used in microelectronics applications such as gates and interconnects. The packing density of integrated circuits can be enhanced by fabricating multilevel polycrystalline silicon films separated by insulating SiO2 layers. It has been found that device performance and electrical properties are strongly affected by the interface morphology between polycrystalline silicon and SiO2. As a thermal oxide layer is grown, the poly silicon is consumed, and there is a volume expansion of the oxide relative to the atomic silicon. Roughness at the poly silicon/thermal oxide interface can be severely deleterious due to stresses induced by the volume change during oxidation. Further, grain orientations and grain boundaries may alter oxidation kinetics, which will also affect roughness, and thus stress.Three groups of polycrystalline silicon films were deposited by LPCVD after growing thermal oxide on p-type wafers. The films were doped with phosphorus or arsenic by three different methods.

Determination of arsenic atom distribution arsenic doped silicon using HOLZ-line analysis

1996 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 976-977
Author(s):  
Y. Kikuchi ◽  
N. Hashikawa ◽  
F. Uesugi ◽  
E. Wakai ◽  
K. Watanabe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Inelastic Scattering ◽  
Zone Axis ◽  
Experimental Result ◽  
Background Intensity ◽  
Crystal Thickness ◽  
Arsenic Atom ◽  
Doped Silicon ◽  
P Type ◽  
Line Analysis

In order to measure the concentration of arsenic atoms in nanometer regions of arsenic doped silicon, the HOLZ analysis is carried out underthe exact [011] zone axis observation. In previous papers, it is revealed that the position of two bright lines in the outer SOLZ structures on the[011] zone axis is little influenced by the crystal thickness and the background intensity caused by inelastic scattering electrons, but is sensitive to the concentration of As atoms substitutbnal for Siatomic site.As the result, it becomes possible to determine the concentration of electrically activated As atoms in silicon within an observed area by means of the simple fitting between experimental result and dynamical simulatioan. In the present work, in order to investigate the distribution of electrically activated As in silicon, the outer HOLZ analysis is applied using a nanometer sized probe of TEM equipped with a FEG.Czodiralsld-gown<100>orientated p-type Si wafers with a resistivity of 10 Ώ cm are used for the experiments.TheAs+ implantation is performed at a dose of 5.0X1015cm-2at 25keV.

Investigating the functional link between TMEM165 and SPCA1

2019 ◽  
Vol 476 (21) ◽  
pp. 3281-3293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elodie Lebredonchel ◽  
Marine Houdou ◽  
Hans-Heinrich Hoffmann ◽  
Kateryna Kondratska ◽  
Marie-Ange Krzewinski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Subcellular Localization ◽  
Complete Loss ◽  
Protein Family ◽  
Uncharacterized Protein ◽  
Functional Link ◽  
P Type

TMEM165 was highlighted in 2012 as the first member of the Uncharacterized Protein Family 0016 (UPF0016) related to human glycosylation diseases. Defects in TMEM165 are associated with strong Golgi glycosylation abnormalities. Our previous work has shown that TMEM165 rapidly degrades with supraphysiological manganese supplementation. In this paper, we establish a functional link between TMEM165 and SPCA1, the Golgi Ca2+/Mn2+ P-type ATPase pump. A nearly complete loss of TMEM165 was observed in SPCA1-deficient Hap1 cells. We demonstrate that TMEM165 was constitutively degraded in lysosomes in the absence of SPCA1. Complementation studies showed that TMEM165 abundance was directly dependent on SPCA1's function and more specifically its capacity to pump Mn2+ from the cytosol into the Golgi lumen. Among SPCA1 mutants that differentially impair Mn2+ and Ca2+ transport, only the Q747A mutant that favors Mn2+ pumping rescues the abundance and Golgi subcellular localization of TMEM165. Interestingly, the overexpression of SERCA2b also rescues the expression of TMEM165. Finally, this paper highlights that TMEM165 expression is linked to the function of SPCA1.

Structural dynamics of P-type ATPase ion pumps

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (5) ◽  
pp. 1247-1257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mateusz Dyla ◽  
Sara Basse Hansen ◽  
Poul Nissen ◽  
Magnus Kjaergaard
Keyword(s):  
Structural Dynamics ◽  
Single Molecule ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Atp Hydrolysis ◽  
Resonance Energy Transfer ◽  
Resonance Energy ◽  
Time Resolved ◽  
Dynamics Simulations ◽  
Types Of Information ◽  
P Type

Abstract P-type ATPases transport ions across biological membranes against concentration gradients and are essential for all cells. They use the energy from ATP hydrolysis to propel large intramolecular movements, which drive vectorial transport of ions. Tight coordination of the motions of the pump is required to couple the two spatially distant processes of ion binding and ATP hydrolysis. Here, we review our current understanding of the structural dynamics of P-type ATPases, focusing primarily on Ca2+ pumps. We integrate different types of information that report on structural dynamics, primarily time-resolved fluorescence experiments including single-molecule Förster resonance energy transfer and molecular dynamics simulations, and interpret them in the framework provided by the numerous crystal structures of sarco/endoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPase. We discuss the challenges in characterizing the dynamics of membrane pumps, and the likely impact of new technologies on the field.

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