Comments on: M http://oklo.org/2006/02/12/m/ characterizing planetary systems Sat, 27 Feb 2010 05:05:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: systemic - A Case for Habitable Planets Orbiting Red Dwarfs http://oklo.org/2006/02/12/m/comment-page-1/#comment-48 systemic - A Case for Habitable Planets Orbiting Red Dwarfs Thu, 30 Mar 2006 01:48:47 +0000 http://oklo.org/?p=40#comment-48 [...] Yesterday, Ryan Montgomery gave his presentation at the AbSciCon meeting in Washington DC, and laid forth our provocative hypothesis. We think that Earth-mass planets are common in the habitable zones of the lowest-mass red dwarf stars, and we think that these planets can potentially be detected by targeted photometric searches of the nearest known low-mass stars. The closest stars on this list are accessible to transitsearch.org observers, and we are advocating that the search begin immediately. [...] [...] Yesterday, Ryan Montgomery gave his presentation at the AbSciCon meeting in Washington DC, and laid forth our provocative hypothesis. We think that Earth-mass planets are common in the habitable zones of the lowest-mass red dwarf stars, and we think that these planets can potentially be detected by targeted photometric searches of the nearest known low-mass stars. The closest stars on this list are accessible to transitsearch.org observers, and we are advocating that the search begin immediately. [...]

]]> By: Adam http://oklo.org/2006/02/12/m/comment-page-1/#comment-36 Adam Tue, 14 Feb 2006 21:38:00 +0000 http://oklo.org/?p=40#comment-36 Hi Greg Just one question about your data on Proxima. A couple of years ago the ESA released an observational study that gave Proxima's mass as 0.123 solar and its radius about 0.145. Are they using a different stellar evolution code? If so, why? Adam Hi Greg

Just one question about your data on Proxima. A couple of years ago the ESA released an observational study that gave Proxima’s mass as 0.123 solar and its radius about 0.145. Are they using a different stellar evolution code? If so, why?

Adam

]]> By: Centauri Dreams » Blog Archive » A Close Look at Proxima Centauri http://oklo.org/2006/02/12/m/comment-page-1/#comment-35 Centauri Dreams » Blog Archive » A Close Look at Proxima Centauri Tue, 14 Feb 2006 15:16:42 +0000 http://oklo.org/?p=40#comment-35 [...] All of which has powerful consequences, especially in terms of longevity — Proxima Centauri will still be shining two trillion years from now. You’ll want to read the entire post, which goes into the details of a paper Laughlin wrote (with Peter Bodenheimer and Fred Adams) that examines the fate of red dwarfs like Proxima. It also offers a close look at what a terrestrial planet orbiting a red dwarf might be like. And it reports on the work of UCSC graduate student Ryan Montgomery, who is carrying out computer work to simulate the accretion of terrestrial-mass planets from small planetesimals in this environment. [...] [...] All of which has powerful consequences, especially in terms of longevity — Proxima Centauri will still be shining two trillion years from now. You’ll want to read the entire post, which goes into the details of a paper Laughlin wrote (with Peter Bodenheimer and Fred Adams) that examines the fate of red dwarfs like Proxima. It also offers a close look at what a terrestrial planet orbiting a red dwarf might be like. And it reports on the work of UCSC graduate student Ryan Montgomery, who is carrying out computer work to simulate the accretion of terrestrial-mass planets from small planetesimals in this environment. [...]

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