For much of human history we have wondered how our solar system formed, and whether there are any other planets like ours around other stars. Only in the last 20 […]
astro-ph.SR
Posted inExoplanets, -moons, -comets
Seismic Constraints on Rotation of Sun-like Stars and Exoplanet Mass
Rotation is thought to drive cyclic magnetic activity in the Sun and Sun-like stars. Stellar dynamos, however, are poorly understood owing to the scarcity of observations of rotation and magnetic […]
Posted inExoplanets, -moons, -comets, Habitable Zones
The Habitable Real Estate of our Nearest Stellar Neighbors
We use the sample of known stars and brown dwarfs within 5 pc of the Sun, supplemented with AFGK stars within 10 pc, to determine which stellar spectral types provide […]