Catalog of Earth-Like Exoplanet Survey Targets Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Chandler C.O.
  2. McDonald I.
  3. Kane S.R.
  4. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

Locating planets in circumstellar habitable zones (HZs) is a priority for many exoplanet surveys. Space-based and ground-based surveys alike require robust toolsets to aid in target selection and mission planning. We present the Catalog of Earth-Like Exoplanet Survey Targets (CELESTA), a database of HZs around 37000 nearby stars. We calculated stellar parameters, including effective temperatures, masses, and radii, and we quantified the orbital distances and periods corresponding to the circumstellar HZs. We gauged the accuracy of our predictions by contrasting CELESTA's computed parameters to observational data. We ascertain a potential return on investment by computing the number of HZs probed for a given survey duration. A versatile framework for extending the functionality of CELESTA into the future enables ongoing comparisons to new observations, and recalculations when updates to HZ models, stellar temperatures, or parallax data become available. We expect to upgrade and expand CELESTA using data from the Gaia mission as the data become available.

Keywords
  1. multiple-stars
  2. solar-system-planets
  3. effective-temperature
  4. stellar-distance
  5. stellar-masses
  6. stellar-radii
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2016AJ....151...59C
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https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/AJ/151/59
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/151/59
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.51510059

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History

2016-08-17T06:43:32Z
Resource record created
2016-08-17T06:43:32Z
Created
2017-09-19T14:23:52Z
Updated

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