28 August 2024

This question was part of the RAND Forecasting Initiative (RFI).

***Will at least five more exoplanets be found to be potentially habitable between 1 February 2024 and 31 December 2024? Github***

Though this question was suspended due to the ambiguity and lack of clarity as to what would determine the outcome, I did end up creating a web application that would have made things easier for the analysis.

This web application calculates the habitable zone (HZ) for a given star system using user input for the star's luminosity, semi-major axis of the planet's orbit, and the star's temperature. The app determines whether a planet is within the habitable zone based on the definitions provided by Kopparapu et al. (2014). The application is live at https://hzcalc.streamlit.app/

NOTE: The app has been deployed using streamlit cloud. It may have gone into sleep if it has not been used for a long time. In that case you will have to wake it up before using it.

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