HabCat

The Catalog of Nearby Habitable Systems (HabCat) is a directory of star systems that could theoretically contain planets in the respective life zone. This list was compiled by researchers Jill Tarter and Margaret Turnbull under the auspices of Project Phoenix (part of SETI ).

The directory is based on the Hipparcos catalog , which contains a total of 118,218 stars. By sorting out for a wide range of stellar features, this list currently contains 17,129 "HabStars".

Web links

• NASA: HabStars: Speeding Up In the Zone (English)
• Target Selection for SETI. I. A Catalog of Nearby Habitable Stellar Systems The Astrophysical Journal Supp. Series 2003, Abstract & Full Text (English)