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Wind may deflate search for habitable planets

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Study suggests that stellar wind of M-dwarfs erodes atmosphere of planets in the habitable zone.

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  1. Cohen, O. et al. preprint at http://arxiv.org/abs/1405.7707 (2014).

  2. Hilton, E. J., Hawley, S. L., Kowalski, A. F. & Holtzman, J. preprint at http://arxiv.org/abs/1012.0577 (2010).

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Cowen, R. Wind may deflate search for habitable planets. Nature (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2014.15335

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