{"id":5308,"date":"2021-10-22T14:04:21","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T22:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/?p=5308"},"modified":"2021-10-22T14:15:01","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T22:15:01","slug":"the-m-dwarf-opportunity-characterizing-nearby-m-dwarf-habitable-zone-planets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/2021\/10\/22\/the-m-dwarf-opportunity-characterizing-nearby-m-dwarf-habitable-zone-planets\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe M-dwarf Opportunity: Characterizing Nearby M-dwarf Habitable Zone Planets\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/washington.zoom.us\/j\/91879649766?pwd=czNKVy9oYkcvaFMvM2JxQ1hhQ2RsQT09\">Zoom Link<\/a> for Colloquium 10\/29\/2021 3:00pm PST.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please email <a href=\"mailto:astrobio@uw.edu\">astrobio@uw.edu<\/a> for zoom presentation password<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><span class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\"><strong>Presented by: <a href=\"https:\/\/science.gsfc.nasa.gov\/sed\/bio\/ravikumar.kopparapu\">Ravi Kopparapu<\/a> <a>&nbsp;<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/goddard\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/goddard\">NASA Goddard Space Flight Center<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\">M-dwarf stars are cooler (2600 K to 4000 K) and smaller (&lt; 0.5 Solar radii) than our Sun (5800 K). They are also the most numerous stars in the Galaxy, accounting for 75% of our closest neighbors. The nearest terrestrial planet within the habitable zone to us is around a M-dwarf star (Proxima Centauri b). As a result, recently terrestrial planets in the HZs of M-dwarf stars have received significant interest due to several high-profile discoveries and the opportunity that they represent.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Can M-dwarf planets support life, and if so, how do we best observe and characterize them? In this talk, I will discuss the newly formed CHAMPs (Consortium on Habitability and Atmospheres of M-dwarf Planets) team\u2019s approach to address this science question. The forthcoming launch of JWST, and soon-to-be commissioned ground-based extremely large telescopes, may provide a detailed atmospheric observations of terrestrial worlds orbiting M dwarfs. This is our best (and only) opportunity at obtaining the spectrum of a potentially-habitable planet in the next<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>decade. However, these may be limited to only a handful of nearby (transiting) systems. Sampling the vast variety of M-dwarf star-planet configurations may be out of reach for the foreseeable future. This is where we must utilize our modeling expertise,&nbsp; combining them with upcoming sample observations to construct a picture of habitable planets around M-dwarfs, and place the solar system in the context of exoplanetary environments that are alien to our own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zoom Link for Colloquium 10\/29\/2021 3:00pm PST. Please email astrobio@uw.edu for zoom presentation password Presented by: Ravi Kopparapu &nbsp;NASA Goddard&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5317,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1,40,13],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5308"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5367,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5308\/revisions\/5367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}