Posted in astro-ph.EP · 2026-01-09 · Madison G. Scott, Georgina Dransfield, Mathilde Timmermans, Amaury H. M. J. Triaud, Benjamin V. Rackham, Khalid Barkaoui, Adam J. Burgasser, Karen A. Collins, Michaël Gillon, Steve B. Howell, Alan M. Levine, Francisco J. Pozuelos, Keivan G. Stassun, Carl Ziegler, Yilen Gomez Maqueo Chew, Catherine A. Clark, Yasmin Davis, Fatemeh Davoudi, Tansu Daylan, Brice-Olivier Demory, Dax Feliz, Akihiko Fukui, Maximilian N. Günther, Emmanuël Jehin, Florian Lienhard, Andrew W. Mann, Clàudia Janó Muñoz, Norio Narita, Peter P. Pedersen, Richard P. Schwarz, Avi Shporer, Abderahmane Soubkiou, Sebastián Zúñiga-Fernández
As the diversity of exoplanets continues to grow, it is important to revisit assumptions about habitability and classical HZ definitions. In this work, we introduce an expanded 'temperate' zone, defined by instellation fluxes between $0.1<S/\mathrm{S}_\oplus<5$, thus encompassing a broader range of potentially habitable worlds. We...