The language of exoplanet ranking metrics needs to change
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
2017-08-07 v1
Abstract
We have found many Earth-sized worlds but we have no way of determining if their surfaces are Earth-like. This makes it impossible to quantitatively compare habitability, and pretending we can risks damaging the field.
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@article{arxiv.1708.01363,
title = {The language of exoplanet ranking metrics needs to change},
author = {Elizabeth Tasker and Joshua Tan and Kevin Heng and Stephen Kane and David Spiegel and Ramon Brasser and Andrew Casey and Steven Desch and Caroline Dorn and Christine Houser and John Hernlund and Marine Lasbleis and Matthieu Laneuville and Anne-Sophie Libert and Lena Noack and Cayman Unterborn and June Wicks},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.01363},
year = {2017}
}
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Published in Nature Astronomy, Comment, 02/2017