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.
Description
[1708.01363] The language of exoplanet ranking metrics needs to change
%0 Generic
%1 tasker2017language
%A Tasker, Elizabeth
%A Tan, Joshua
%A Heng, Kevin
%A Kane, Stephen
%A Spiegel, David
%A Brasser, Ramon
%A Casey, Andrew
%A Desch, Steven
%A Dorn, Caroline
%A Houser, Christine
%A Hernlund, John
%A Lasbleis, Marine
%A Laneuville, Matthieu
%A Libert, Anne-Sophie
%A Noack, Lena
%A Unterborn, Cayman
%A Wicks, June
%D 2017
%K exoplanet habitability
%R 10.1038/s41550-017-0042
%T The language of exoplanet ranking metrics needs to change
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1708.01363
%X 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.
@misc{tasker2017language,
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.},
added-at = {2017-08-07T11:19:49.000+0200},
author = {Tasker, Elizabeth and Tan, Joshua and Heng, Kevin and Kane, Stephen and Spiegel, David and Brasser, Ramon and Casey, Andrew and Desch, Steven and Dorn, Caroline and Houser, Christine and Hernlund, John and Lasbleis, Marine and Laneuville, Matthieu and Libert, Anne-Sophie and Noack, Lena and Unterborn, Cayman and Wicks, June},
biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2167efae945fae08bec6682fccba02526/miki},
description = {[1708.01363] The language of exoplanet ranking metrics needs to change},
doi = {10.1038/s41550-017-0042},
interhash = {8c36c9d8ae9e587c0c02aae76e50ba05},
intrahash = {167efae945fae08bec6682fccba02526},
keywords = {exoplanet habitability},
note = {cite arxiv:1708.01363Comment: Published in Nature Astronomy, Comment, 02/2017},
timestamp = {2017-08-07T11:19:49.000+0200},
title = {The language of exoplanet ranking metrics needs to change},
url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1708.01363},
year = 2017
}