• DOI:10.1088/2041-8205/767/1/L8
Corpus ID: 119103101

A REVISED ESTIMATE OF THE OCCURRENCE RATE OF TERRESTRIAL PLANETS IN THE HABITABLE ZONES AROUND KEPLER M-DWARFS

@article{Kopparapu2013ARE,
  title={A REVISED ESTIMATE OF THE OCCURRENCE RATE OF TERRESTRIAL PLANETS IN THE HABITABLE ZONES AROUND KEPLER M-DWARFS},
  author={R. Kopparapu},
  journal={The Astrophysical Journal},
  year={2013},
  volume={767}
}

• R. Kopparapu
• Published 2013
• Physics
• The Astrophysical Journal

Because of their large numbers, low-mass stars may be the most abundant planet hosts in our Galaxy. Furthermore, terrestrial planets in the habitable zones (HZs) around M-dwarfs can potentially be characterized in the near future and hence may be the first such planets to be studied. Recently, Dressing & Charbonneau used Kepler data and calculated the frequency of terrestrial planets in the HZ of cool stars to be per star for Earth-size planets (0.5-1.4 R ⊕). However, this estimate was derived… Expand