Eine ebenfalls interessante neuere Arbeit:
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2011/pdf/1229.pdfPaar Auszüge:
planetary systems, different types of satellites may orbit around the extrasolar giant planets (EGPs). Some of these may have a large size and they composed of water ice, moreover, silicate and metallic compounds in their rocky cores. While other types of the satellites are might be terrestrial similarly to the Moon. A giant gaseous exoplanet with masses of 10 MJupiter or more, is capable of sustaining accretion disks in that an Earth- mass moon could form. According to the other scenario, Earth-size or larger moons could form independently but later they become captured satellites by a massive planet's gravity. In consequence of stellar tides and other gravitational effects, massive moons cannot survive in orbit around Sun-like stars if the semimajor axis of the host planet is less than 0.6 AU [1].
The detectable exomoons with transit method will be especially interesting because from transit light curves the mass of the examined moons can be determined [2] a nd combining this parameter with the radius data, the average density of the moon is also computable.
In this study, we focused on the silicate composition of a theoretical exomoon model. Following its formation, the giant planet with its satellite-system has migrated from the outer colder region of planetary system into habitable zone of a Solar-type star.
Ob die erdgrosse Mondmasse wirklich nicht primär in der Akkreditionsscheibe eines Gasriesen mit entsprechend größerer Masse als Jupiter entstehen kann,ist völlig offen.
Eine weitere Arbeit ,die zeigt,das durch solche Exomonde die habitable Zone erweitert werden könnte:
http://gheorghe47.wordpress.com/2011/01/22/moons-orbiting-exoplanets-exomoons/Scharf is able to show that such moons may be habitable at greater distances than a similar planet would be, thanks to the process of tidal heating. Since gravity weakens with distance, the pull from the host planet will be slightly different on the near and far ......
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example. “If you took Mars and put it where Europa is now, Mars would get heated by several tens of degrees [from tidal heating] at its surface. This would also probably start up its volcanic activity again.” Tidal heating can.......