HabCat
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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".
[edit] External links
- HabCat - the catalog and its description on the personal homepage of Margaret Turnbull
- Target Selection for SETI. I. A Catalog of Nearby Habitable Stellar Systems
- Target Selection for SETI. II. Tycho‐2 Dwarfs, Old Open Clusters, and the Nearest 100 Stars
- HabStars - an article on the NASA website
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