New paper: Tides Tighten the Hycean Habitable Zone
Hycean planets (ocean worlds with H-rich atmospheres) are thought to be promising spots for life, particularly around M-dwarfs, with the habitable zone being much wider than it is for terrestrial planets. But there’s a twist… In a new paper accepted to ApJ Letters and on arXiv now, UW-Madison graduate student Joseph Livesey shows that tidal heating from …