{"id":1520,"date":"2014-12-01T19:25:51","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T19:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/?p=1520"},"modified":"2020-10-22T22:53:25","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T06:53:25","slug":"too-hot-to-handle-planets-in-the-habitable-zones-of-low-mass-stars-may-be-roasted-early-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/2014\/12\/01\/too-hot-to-handle-planets-in-the-habitable-zones-of-low-mass-stars-may-be-roasted-early-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Hot To Handle: Planets in the Habitable Zones of Low Mass Stars May Be Roasted Early On"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>UWAB graduate student Rodrigo Luger and Professor Rory Barnes <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1089\/ast.2014.1231\">have shown<\/a> that many terrestrial planets in the habitable zones of low mass (M dwarf) stars could have experienced extreme stellar heating for up to 1 billion years after planet formation. This heating arises because M dwarfs evolve differently than the Sun &#8212; they contract and cool for a much longer period of time. As they cool, the habitable zone moves in and so planets we find in the habitable zone today may have spent up to 1 billion years in a Venus-like state. During this period, destruction of water by UV radiation and hydrogen escape to space could ultimately build up massive abiotic oxygen atmospheres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UWAB graduate student Rodrigo Luger and Professor Rory Barnes have shown that many terrestrial planets in the habitable zones of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[33],"tags":[76,65],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1521,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520\/revisions\/1521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}