The habitable zone for Earthlike exomoons orbiting Kepler-1625b
Abstract
The recent announcement of a Neptune-sized exomoon candidate orbiting the Jupiter-sized object Kepler-1625b has forced us to rethink our assumptions regarding both exomoons and their host exoplanets. In this paper I describe calculations of the habitable zone for Earthlike exomoons in orbit of Kepler-1625b under a variety of assumptions. I find that the candidate exomoon, Kepler-1625b-i, does not currently reside within the exomoon habitable zone, but may have done so when Kepler-1625 occupied the main sequence. If it were to possess its own moon (a "moon-moon") that was Earthlike, this could potentially have been a habitable world. If other exomoons orbit Kepler-1625b, then there are a range of possible semimajor axes/eccentricities that would permit a habitable surface during the main sequence phase, while remaining dynamically stable under the perturbations of Kepler-1625b-i. This is however contingent on effective atmospheric CO regulation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1810.02712,
title = {The habitable zone for Earthlike exomoons orbiting Kepler-1625b},
author = {Duncan Forgan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.02712},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
17 pages, 5 figures, accepted to IJA. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1601.00789, arXiv:1404.4493