A new sample for the search of habitable planets

• Grant number: 19/19208-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: October 01, 2019
• End date: November 30, 2020
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Astronomy - Stellar Astrophysics
• Principal Investigator: Jorge Luis Melendez Moreno
• Grantee: Anne Viegas Rathsam
• Host Institution: Instituto de Astronomia, Geofísica e Ciências Atmosféricas (IAG). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 18/04055-8 - High precision spectroscopy: from the first stars to planets, AP.TEM

Abstract

The objectives of the project are divided in two phases. In the first phase, we intend to determine which stellar types are more suitable for studies towards detecting potentially habitable planets, considering the equipment we have available today and in the near future. Based on these results, in a second phase we will select stars with those characteristics, and analyses some of those sample stars in order to learn the determination of stellar parameters through the spectroscopic method.