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.
Habitability
late-type dwarfs
activity
mass m-stars
ejection cme
extra-solar planets
Darwin/TPF
harps search
super-earth
Nearby stars
main-sequence
Exoplanet search
m-circle-plus
x-ray-emission
earth-like exoplanets
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
European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESA ESTEC)
H. Lammer
Institut fur Weltraumforschung
C. Beichman
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
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