Inhabitable zone of a star

[ComputerHotline]

Hello
How can I determinate the inhabitable zone of a star

[rjcraig]

There's some information on this here:

http://www.solstation.com/habitable.htm

Just glancing through it quickly, I didn't see any formulas you can simply plug values into, but I'm sure there are some around. (Will keep looking)

Ron

[julesstoop]

It's probably not very simple, since you would have to take the spectral type of the star in consideration.

[rjcraig]

Naturally I didn't mean to imply it would be simple, only that there must be ways of determining the habitable zone for a given star. The operant concept seems to be the range at which water can exist. Various factors (stellar spectral type (F, G, K), size, age and stability; planetary mass, atmosphere, land/water surface ratio, presence/absence of large moons, eccentricity of planetary orbit) play a role.

A bit more searching turned up some actual calculation methods at

http://www.ess.sunysb.edu/fwalter/AST101/habzone.html

There's a lot of information out there, so it'll take some time to find what you want, but where there's a will....

[julesstoop]

I'm sorry. I didn't mean to imply you'd think it were to be simple.
I was just thinking out loud.

[Guest]

Hello
How can I determinate the inhabitable zone of a star

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[rjcraig]

Excellent find, O Mystery Guest!