TY - JOUR
T1 - The Fundamental Connections between the Solar System and Exoplanetary Science
AU - Kane, Stephen R.
AU - Arney, Giada N.
AU - Byrne, Paul K.
AU - Dalba, Paul A.
AU - Desch, Steven J.
AU - Horner, Jonti
AU - Izenberg, Noam R.
AU - Mandt, Kathleen E.
AU - Meadows, Victoria S.
AU - Quick, Lynnae C.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work benefited from discussions at the ?Exoplanets in our Backyard? workshop held in Houston, USA, February 5?7, 2020. This research has made use of the Habitable Zone Gallery at hzgallery.org, and the NASA Exoplanet Archive, which is operated by the California Institute of Technology under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under the Exoplanet Exploration Program. The results reported herein benefited from collaborations and/or information exchange within NASA's Nexus for Exoplanet System Science (NExSS) research coordination network, which is sponsored by NASA's Science Mission Directorate. P.A.D. is supported by a National Science Foundation (NSF) Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship under award AST-1903811. G.N.A. acknowledges support from the NASA Astrobiology Institute's Virtual Planetary Laboratory, supported by the NASA Nexus for Exoplanet System Science (NExSS) research coordination network grant 80NSSC18K0829 and from the Goddard Space Flight Center Sellers Exoplanet Environments Collaboration (SEEC), which is funded by the NASA Planetary Science Division's Internal Scientist Funding Model (ISFM). K.E.M. acknowledges support from NASA RDAP grant 80NSSC19K1306.
Funding Information:
This work benefited from discussions at the “Exoplanets in our Backyard” workshop held in Houston, USA, February 5–7, 2020. This research has made use of the Habitable Zone Gallery at hzgallery.org , and the NASA Exoplanet Archive, which is operated by the California Institute of Technology under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under the Exoplanet Exploration Program. The results reported herein benefited from collaborations and/or information exchange within NASA's Nexus for Exoplanet System Science (NExSS) research coordination network, which is sponsored by NASA's Science Mission Directorate. P.A.D. is supported by a National Science Foundation (NSF) Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship under award AST‐1903811. G.N.A. acknowledges support from the NASA Astrobiology Institute's Virtual Planetary Laboratory, supported by the NASA Nexus for Exoplanet System Science (NExSS) research coordination network grant 80NSSC18K0829 and from the Goddard Space Flight Center Sellers Exoplanet Environments Collaboration (SEEC), which is funded by the NASA Planetary Science Division's Internal Scientist Funding Model (ISFM). K.E.M. acknowledges support from NASA RDAP grant 80NSSC19K1306.
Publisher Copyright:
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Copyright:
Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2021/2
Y1 - 2021/2
N2 - Over the past several decades, thousands of planets have been discovered outside our Solar System. These planets exhibit enormous diversity, and their large numbers provide a statistical opportunity to place our Solar System within the broader context of planetary structure, atmospheres, architectures, formation, and evolution. Meanwhile, the field of exoplanetary science is rapidly forging onward toward a goal of atmospheric characterization, inferring surface conditions and interiors, and assessing the potential for habitability. However, the interpretation of exoplanet data requires the development and validation of exoplanet models that depend on in situ data that, in the foreseeable future, are only obtainable from our Solar System. Thus, planetary and exoplanetary science would both greatly benefit from a symbiotic relationship with a two-way flow of information. Here, we describe the critical lessons and outstanding questions from planetary science, the study of which are essential for addressing fundamental aspects for a variety of exoplanetary topics. We outline these lessons and questions for the major categories of Solar System bodies, including the terrestrial planets, the giant planets, moons, and minor bodies. We provide a discussion of how many of these planetary science issues may be translated into exoplanet observables that will yield critical insight into current and future exoplanet discoveries.
AB - Over the past several decades, thousands of planets have been discovered outside our Solar System. These planets exhibit enormous diversity, and their large numbers provide a statistical opportunity to place our Solar System within the broader context of planetary structure, atmospheres, architectures, formation, and evolution. Meanwhile, the field of exoplanetary science is rapidly forging onward toward a goal of atmospheric characterization, inferring surface conditions and interiors, and assessing the potential for habitability. However, the interpretation of exoplanet data requires the development and validation of exoplanet models that depend on in situ data that, in the foreseeable future, are only obtainable from our Solar System. Thus, planetary and exoplanetary science would both greatly benefit from a symbiotic relationship with a two-way flow of information. Here, we describe the critical lessons and outstanding questions from planetary science, the study of which are essential for addressing fundamental aspects for a variety of exoplanetary topics. We outline these lessons and questions for the major categories of Solar System bodies, including the terrestrial planets, the giant planets, moons, and minor bodies. We provide a discussion of how many of these planetary science issues may be translated into exoplanet observables that will yield critical insight into current and future exoplanet discoveries.
KW - Solar System
KW - exoplanets
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U2 - 10.1029/2020JE006643
DO - 10.1029/2020JE006643
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85101780932
VL - 126
JO - Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
JF - Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
SN - 0148-0227
IS - 2
M1 - e2020JE006643
ER -