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The Search for Worlds Like Our Own

hal.structure.identifierResearch and Scientific Support Department, ESTEC [RSSD]
dc.contributor.authorFRIDLUND, Malcolm
hal.structure.identifierUniversidad Autónoma de Madrid [UAM]
dc.contributor.authorEIROA, Carlos
hal.structure.identifierMax-Planck-Institut für Astronomie [MPIA]
dc.contributor.authorHENNING, Thomas
hal.structure.identifierMax-Planck-Institut für Astronomie [MPIA]
dc.contributor.authorHERBST, Tom
hal.structure.identifierSpace Research Institute of Austrian Academy of Sciences [IWF]
dc.contributor.authorLAMMER, Helmut
dc.contributor.authorLÉGER, Alain
hal.structure.identifierDepartment of Radio and Space Science [Göteborg]
dc.contributor.authorLISEAU, René
hal.structure.identifierIstituto Nazionale di Astrofisica [INAF]
dc.contributor.authorPARESCE, Francesco
hal.structure.identifierSTFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory [RAL]
dc.contributor.authorPENNY, Alan
hal.structure.identifierLandessternwarte Königstuhl [ZAH] [LSW]
dc.contributor.authorQUIRRENBACH, Andreas
hal.structure.identifierLeiden Observatory [Leiden]
dc.contributor.authorRÖTTGERING, Huub
hal.structure.identifierLaboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux [Pessac] [LAB]
hal.structure.identifierObservatoire aquitain des sciences de l'univers [OASU]
hal.structure.identifierUniversité Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1 [UB]
hal.structure.identifierLaboratoire d'astrodynamique, d'astrophysique et d'aéronomie de bordeaux [L3AB]
dc.contributor.authorSELSIS, Franck
hal.structure.identifierSTFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory [RAL]
hal.structure.identifierDepartment of Physics and Astronomy [Milton Keynes]
dc.contributor.authorWHITE, Glenn J.
hal.structure.identifierInstitut d'Astrophysique et de Géophysique [Liège]
dc.contributor.authorABSIL, Olivier
dc.contributor.authorDEFRÈ SCHNEIDER, Jean
hal.structure.identifierUniversity College of London [London] [UCL]
dc.contributor.authorTINETTI, Giovanna
dc.contributor.authorKARLSSON, Anders
dc.contributor.authorGONDOIN, Phillipe
dc.contributor.authorDEN HARTOG, Roland
dc.contributor.authorD'ARCIO, Luigi
dc.contributor.authorSTANKOV, Anna-Maria
dc.contributor.authorKILTER, Mikael
dc.contributor.authorERD, Christian
hal.structure.identifierNASA ExoPlanet Science Institute [NExScI]
dc.contributor.authorBEICHMAN, Charles
dc.contributor.authorCOULTER, Daniel
hal.structure.identifierNASA Goddard Space Flight Center [GSFC]
dc.contributor.authorDANCHI, William
dc.contributor.authorDEVIRIAN, Michael
dc.contributor.authorJOHNSTON, Kenneth J.
hal.structure.identifierJet Propulsion Laboratory [JPL]
dc.contributor.authorLAWSON, Peter
dc.contributor.authorLAY, Oliver P.
hal.structure.identifierLunar and Planetary Laboratory [Tucson] [LPL]
dc.contributor.authorLUNINE, Jonathan
hal.structure.identifierHarvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics [CfA]
dc.contributor.authorKALTENEGGER, Lisa
dc.date.issued2010-01
dc.identifier.issn1531-1074
dc.description.abstractEnThe direct detection of Earth-like exoplanets orbiting nearby stars and the characterization of such planets -- particularly, their evolution, their atmospheres, and their ability to host life -- constitute a significant problem. The quest for other worlds as abodes of life has been one of mankind's great questions for several millennia. For instance, as stated by Epicurus 300 BC: Other worlds, with plants and other living things, some of them similar and some of them different from ours, must exist. Demokritos from Abdera (460-370 BC), the man who invented the concept of indivisible small parts - atoms - also held the belief that other worlds exist around the stars and that some of these worlds may be inhabited by life-forms. The idea of the plurality of worlds and of life on them has since been held by scientists like Johannes Kepler and William Herschel, among many others. Here, one must also mention Giordano Bruno. Born in 1548, Bruno studied in France and came into contact with the teachings of Nicolas Copernicus. He wrote the book De l'Infinito, Universo e Mondi in 1584, in which he claimed that the Universe was infinite, that it contained an infinite amount of worlds like Earth, and that these worlds were inhabited by intelligent beings. At the time, this was extremely controversial, and eventually Bruno was arrested by the church and burned at the stake in Rome in 1600, as a heretic, for promoting this and other equally confrontational issues (though it is unclear exactly which idea was the one that ultimately brought him to his end). In all the aforementioned cases, the opinions and results were arrived at through reasoning <80><94>not by experiment. We have only recently acquired the technological capability to observe planets orbiting stars other than 6our Sun; acquisition of this capability has been a remarkable feat of our time. We show in this introduction to the Habitability Primer that mankind is at the dawning of an age when, by way of the scientific method and 21st-century technology, we will be able to answer this fascinating controversial issue that has persisted for at least 2500 years.
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherMary Ann Liebert
dc.title.enThe Search for Worlds Like Our Own
dc.typeArticle de revue
dc.identifier.doi10.1089/AST.2009.0380
dc.subject.halPlanète et Univers [physics]/Astrophysique [astro-ph]/Planétologie et astrophysique de la terre [astro-ph.EP]
dc.subject.halPhysique [physics]/Astrophysique [astro-ph]/Planétologie et astrophysique de la terre [astro-ph.EP]
bordeaux.journalAstrobiology
bordeaux.page5-17
bordeaux.volume10
bordeaux.peerReviewedoui
hal.identifierhal-00522640
hal.version1
hal.popularnon
hal.audienceInternationale
hal.origin.linkhttps://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr//hal-00522640v1
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