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The previous comment asked about an OWL-like telescope.
How many stars and planets could be catalogued within 100 parsecs by 2100?
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May I mention http://www.recons.org/
"The purpose of RECONS (REsearch Consortium On Nearby Stars) is to understand the nature of the Sun's nearest stellar neighbors, both individually and as a population. Our primary goals are to discover "missing" members of the stellar sample within 10 parsecs (32.6 light years), and to characterize all stars and their environments within that distance limit." etc etc...
And, by extrapolation, improve estimates of population beyond this 'thoroughly known space'...
Their next Solar Neighborhood (TSN) Series report (#46) should appear soon...
FWIW, whatever the source, I'm hoping for better data on tau Ceti 'f', a sub-neptunian-ish / super-earth in habitable zone. At present, orbital plane error-bars put an uncomfortably wide range on mass and probable composition...
"The purpose of RECONS (REsearch Consortium On Nearby Stars) is to understand the nature of the Sun's nearest stellar neighbors, both individually and as a population. Our primary goals are to discover "missing" members of the stellar sample within 10 parsecs (32.6 light years), and to characterize all stars and their environments within that distance limit." etc etc...
And, by extrapolation, improve estimates of population beyond this 'thoroughly known space'...
Their next Solar Neighborhood (TSN) Series report (#46) should appear soon...
FWIW, whatever the source, I'm hoping for better data on tau Ceti 'f', a sub-neptunian-ish / super-earth in habitable zone. At present, orbital plane error-bars put an uncomfortably wide range on mass and probable composition...
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I've been waiting for them to update their 100 nearest stars list...Nik_2213 said:May I mention http://www.recons.org/
"The purpose of RECONS (REsearch Consortium On Nearby Stars) is to understand the nature of the Sun's nearest stellar neighbors, both individually and as a population. Our primary goals are to discover "missing" members of the stellar sample within 10 parsecs (32.6 light years), and to characterize all stars and their environments within that distance limit." etc etc...
And, by extrapolation, improve estimates of population beyond this 'thoroughly known space'...
Their next Solar Neighborhood (TSN) Series report (#46) should appear soon...
FWIW, whatever the source, I'm hoping for better data on tau Ceti 'f', a sub-neptunian-ish / super-earth in habitable zone. At present, orbital plane error-bars put an uncomfortably wide range on mass and probable composition...
Nik_2213
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Me, too, but the field is currently moving so fast, with so many possibles, probables and confirmed, that even the http://exoplanet.eu/catalog/ is struggling to keep up. Plus there are a zillion follow-up observations to be done. Akin to spectral surveys before those 'fibre-optic strand placed by robot' systems automated the field...