The Catalog of Nearby Habitable Systems (HabCat) is a catalogue
of star systems which conceivably have habitable planets. The
list was developed by scientists Jill Tarter and Margaret
Turnbull under the auspices of Project Phoenix, a part of SETI.
The list was based upon the Hipparcos Catalogue (which has
118,218 stars) by filtering on a wide range of star system
features. The current list contains 17,129 "HabStars". - Target
Selection for SETI: 1. A Catalog of Nearby Habitable Stellar
Systems, Turnbull, Tarter, submitted 31 Oct 2002 (last accessed
19 Jan 2010) - Target selection for SETI. II. Tycho-2 dwarfs,
old open clusters, and the nearest 100 stars, by Turnbull and
Tarter, (last accessed 19 Jan 2010) - Target Selection for SETI:
I. A Catalog of Nearby Habitable Stellar Systems - Target
Selection for SETI: II. Tycho‐2 Dwarfs, Old Open Clusters, and
the Nearest 100 Stars - HabStars - an article on the NASA
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