Catalog of Nearby Habitable Systems
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The Catalog of Nearby Habitable Systems (HabCat) is a catalogue of star systems which conceivably have habitable planets. The list was developed by scientists Jill Tarter and Margaret Turnbull under the auspices of Project Phoenix, a part of SETI.
The list was based upon the Hipparcos Catalogue (which has 118,218 stars) by filtering on a wide range of star system features. The current list contains 17,129 "HabStars".
External links
[edit]- Target Selection for SETI: 1. A Catalog of Nearby Habitable Stellar Systems, Turnbull, Tarter, submitted 31 Oct 2002 (last accessed 19 Jan 2010)
- Target selection for SETI. II. Tycho-2 dwarfs, old open clusters, and the nearest 100 stars Archived 2008-08-21 at the Wayback Machine, by Turnbull and Tarter, (last accessed 19 Jan 2010)
- HabStars Archived 2003-10-04 at the Wayback Machine - an article on the NASA website
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