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A next step in exoplanetology: exo-moons

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2015

J. Schneider ,
V. Lainey  and
J. Cabrera
J. Schneider*
Affiliation:
Paris Observatory – LUTh, 5 place Jules Janssen, 92190 Meudon, France
V. Lainey
Affiliation:
Paris Observatory – IMCCE, CNRS, UPMC, Université Lille 1, Paris, France
J. Cabrera
Affiliation:
Institute of Planetology, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Rutherfordstr. 2, D-12489 Berlin, Germany
*
e-mail: jean.schneider@obspm.fr
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Abstract

The interest of exo-moons for Astrobiology is that they widen significantly the potential niches of exolife. In this paper, after a review of standard detection methods, we investigate new ways to characterize exo-moons and to use them to characterize their home planetary system.

Keywords

characterizationdetectionexo-moonsplanetary systems
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Research Article
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International Journal of Astrobiology , Volume 14 , Issue 2: SPECIAL ISSUE: EXOPLANET , April 2015 , pp. 191 - 199
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