Stellar Aspects of Habitability-Characterizing Target Stars for Terrestrial Planet-Finding Missions
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2010
We present and discuss the criteria for selecting potential target stars suitable for the search for Earth-like planets, with a special emphasis on the stellar aspects of habitability. Missions that search for terrestrial exoplanets will explore the presence and habitability of Earth-like exoplanets around several hundred nearby stars, mainly F, G, K, and M stars. The evaluation of the list of potential target systems is essential in order to develop mission concepts for a search for terrestrial exoplanets. Using the Darwin All Sky Star Catalogue (DASSC), we discuss the selection criteria, configuration-dependent subcatalogues, and the implication of stellar activity for habitability.
mass m-stars
activity
Habitability
Exoplanet search
late-type dwarfs
m-circle-plus
Darwin/TPF
extra-solar planets
harps search
x-ray-emission
super-earth
ejection cme
main-sequence
earth-like exoplanets
Nearby stars
Författare
L. Kaltenegger
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
C. Eiroa
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (UAM)
I. Ribas
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
F. Paresce
Istituto nazionale di astrofisica (INAF)
M. Leitzinger
Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz
P. Odert
Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz
A. Hanslmeier
Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz
M. Fridlund
Europeiska rymdorganisationen (ESA)
H. Lammer
Institut fur Weltraumforschung
C. Beichman
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
W. Danchi
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
T. Henning
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
T. Herbst
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
A. Leger
Université Paris-Sud
René Liseau
Chalmers, Institutionen för radio- och rymdvetenskap, Radioastronomi och astrofysik
J. Lunine
University of Arizona
A. Penny
STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
A. Quirrenbach
Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl
H. Rottgering
Universiteit Leiden
F. Selsis
Université de Bordeaux
J. Schneider
Observatoire de Paris-Meudon
D. Stam
Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON)
G. Tinetti
University College London (UCL)
G. J. White
STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Open University
Astrobiology
1531-1074 (ISSN)
Vol. 10 1 103-112Ämneskategorier (SSIF 2011)
Astronomi, astrofysik och kosmologi
Fundament
Grundläggande vetenskaper
DOI
10.1089/ast.2009.0367