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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.

Язык оригиналаанглийский
Номер статьи273
ЖурналAstronomical Journal
Том153
Номер выпуска6
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СостояниеОпубликовано - 1 июн 2017

    Предметные области Scopus

  • Астрономия и астрофизика
  • Космические науки и планетоведение

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