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. 2013 Nov 4;110(48):19273–19278. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1319909110

Table 1.

Occurrence of small planets in the habitable zone

HZ definition ainner aouter FP,inner FP,outer fHZ (%)
Simple 0.5 2 4 0.25 22
Kasting (1993) 0.95 1.37 1.11 0.53 5.8
Kopparapu et al. (2013) 0.99 1.70 1.02 0.35 8.6
Zsom et al. (2013) 0.38 6.92 26*
Pierrehumbert and Gaidos (2011) 10 0.01 ∼50
*

Zsom et al. (17) studied the inner edge of the habitable zone. Here we adopt an outer edge of 2 AU from the Simple model.

Pierrehumbert and Gaidos (18) studied the outer edge of the habitable zone. Here we adopt an inner edge of 0.5 AU from the Simple model. Extrapolation out to 10 AU is severely underconstrained. This estimate is highly uncertain and is included for completeness.