HZ_evolution v1.0.0

A package to calculate the habitable histories of exoplanets.

Authors: Noah Tuchow and Jason Wright

This package aims to constrain the evolutionary histories of planets that we discover. As stars evolve in luminosity and effective temperature, the location of their habitable zones changes in time. This package includes utilities to assess how a planet's habitability will be influenced by its evolving host star. With the HZ_evolution package, one can calculate the instellation histories of planets, compute the durations that they spend in the habitable zone as well as the duration they spend interior and exterior to the habitable zone, and calculate the position of the continuously habitable zone among many other features.

This package builds upon the previous work of Tuchow and Wright (2020), Tuchow and Wright (2021), and Tuchow and Wright (2023).

If you find this package useful please cite:

Tuchow, N. W. and Wright, J. T. (2024). HZ_evolution: A Package to Calculate Habitable Histories. Submitted to RNAAS.