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ArticleLife (Basel, Switzerland)2020

The Habitability of the Galactic Bulge.

Amedeo Balbi, Maryam Hami, Andjelka Kovačević

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Article in Life (Basel, Switzerland), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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3 authors.

Amedeo BalbiDipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma "Tor Vergata", Via della Ricerca Scientifica, 00133 Roma, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-3929-6932
Maryam HamiDipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma "Tor Vergata", Via della Ricerca Scientifica, 00133 Roma, Italy.
Andjelka KovačevićDepartment of Astronomy, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade, Studentski trg 16, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia.

Funding

Agenzia Spaziale Italiana Life in space 2019-3-U.0Foundational Questions Institute FQXi-MGA-1801, FQXi-MGB-1924Ministarstvo Prosvete, Nauke i Tehnološkog Razvoja Astrophysical Spectroscopy of Extragalactic Objects, 176001
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Abstract

We present a new investigation of the habitability of the Milky Way bulge, that expands previous studies on the Galactic Habitable Zone. We discuss existing knowledge on the abundance of planets in the bulge, metallicity and the possible frequency of rocky planets, orbital stability and encounters, and the possibility of planets around the central supermassive black hole. We focus on two aspects that can present substantial differences with respect to the environment in the disk: (i) the ionizing radiation environment, due to the presence of the central black hole and to the highest rate of supernovae explosions and (ii) the efficiency of putative lithopanspermia mechanism for the diffusion of life between stellar systems. We use analytical models of the star density in the bulge to provide estimates of the rate of catastrophic events and of the diffusion timescales for life over interstellar distances.

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astrobiologyexoplanetsGalactic Habitable ZonehabitabilityMilky Way bulge

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PMID32756403
PMCPMC7459951

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