Targeted Catalog of 45 Rocky Exoplanets in the Habitable Zone, with 24 in a Narrow 3D Zone, for Empirical Habitability Testing

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Led by Lisa Kaltenegger, the team used Gaia and the NASA Exoplanet Archive to identify 45 rocky planets in the habitable zone and 24 in a tighter 3D zone, including Proxima Centauri b and several TRAPPIST-1 worlds, and they note that whether these planets have liquid water depends on atmospheric retention while mapping observational priorities for future telescopes to detect atmospheres and signs of life, with graduate student Gillis Lowry and Abigail Bohl among the contributors.