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It is shown that several habitability conditions (in fact, at least seven such conditions) appear to be fulfilled automatically by circumbinary planets of main-sequence stars (CBP-MS), whereas on Earth, these conditions are fulfilled only by chance. Therefore, it looks natural that most of the production of replicating biopolymers in the Galaxy is concentrated on particular classes of CBP-MS, and life on Earth is an outlier, in this sense. In this scenario, Lathe's mechanism for the tidal "chain reaction" abiogenesis on Earth is favored as generic for CBP-MS, due to photo-tidal synchronization inherent to them. Problems with this scenario are discussed in detail.

Original languageEnglish
Article number273
JournalAstronomical Journal
Volume153
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jun 2017

    Research areas

  • astrobiology, binaries: general, methods: analytical

    Scopus subject areas

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Space and Planetary Science

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