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Optimal Target Stars in the Search for Life

  • Authors: Manasvi Lingam, and Abraham Loeb

2018 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 857 L17.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 3.

Relative benefit Δ for a transmission spectroscopy search strategy as a function of stellar mass. The blue curve denotes the case where μ is governed by (5) with δ ≈ 1. The red curve represents the case with μ given by (3), while the green curve corresponds to the flat prior of μ = 1.

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