Nearby Stars (NStars)
Primary Investigators
Richard O. Gray, ASU Physics & Astronomy
Chris Corbally Vatican Observatory
Robert F. Garrison, University of Toronto Astronomy & Astrophysics

 

Project Websites
Appalachian State University
NASA NStars Database Home
"The ultimate goal in establishing the NStars Database is to produce a carefully selected list of target stars for Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF). The baseline design for TPF would be sensitive to Earth-like planets around Sun-like stars to a distance of about 15 pc, therefore the distance horizon for NStars is set conservatively at 25 pc. Along the road to TPF, an important secondary goal of the NStars project is to support study of nearby stars and circumstellar matter by NASA Origins missions such as SIRTF, SOFIA and SIM, plus ground-based interferometers such as Keck and LBT, leading to understanding evolution of the Sun, solar system, Earth, and life on Earth in context of our nearest stellar and planetary neighbors." nstars.arc.nasa.gov/history.cfm
Space Interferometry Mission

Terrestrial Planet Finder

 
Papers
2006
 Astronomical Journal, 132:161-170, 2006 July
Contributions to the Nearby Stars (NStars) Project: Spectroscopy of Stars Earlier than M0 within 40 pc-The Southern Sample
  R.O. Gray (Appalachian State Univ.), C.J. Corbally (Vatican Obs.), R.F. Garrison (David Dunlap Obs.), M.T. McFadden, E.J. Bubar, C. E. McGaHee (Appalachian State Univ.), A.A. O'Donoghue, E. R. Knox (St. Lawrence University)
   
2003
 Astronomical Journal, 126:2048-2059, 2003 October
Contributions to the Nearby Stars (NStars) Project: Spectroscopy of Stars Earlier than M0 within 40 pc-The Northern Sample, I
  R.O. Gray (Appalachian State Univ.), C.J. Corbally (Vatican Obs.), R.F. Garrison (David Dunlap Obs.), M.T. McFadden, P. E. Robinson (Appalachian State Univ.)

 

Presentations
 
2006
 AAS 209th Meeting, Seattle, WA, 89.02
R.O. Gray (Appalachian State Univ.), C.J. Corbally (Vatican Obs.), R.F. Garrison (David Dunlap Obs.), M.T. McFadden (Appalachian State Univ.), A.A. O'Donoghue (St. Lawrence University), E.J. Bubar (Appalachian State Univ.)
Results from the Nearby Stars (NStars) Program: Candidate Solar Twins and Chromospheric Diversity in G and K dwarfs
 
2004
 AAS 203rd Meeting, Atlanta, GA, 43.03
R.O. Gray (Appalachian State Univ.), C.J. Corbally (Vatican Obs.), R.F. Garrison (David Dunlap Obs.), M.T. McFadden (Appalachian State Univ.), A.A. O'Donoghue, E. R. Knox (St. Lawrence University), K.A. Kluttz, E.J. Bubar, A. S. Forbus (Appalachian State Univ.)
Contributions to the NStars Program: Spectroscopy and Physical Paramerters of the Solary-type Stars within 40 parsecs of the Sun
Press Release: Stellar Activity in Nearby Solar-type Stars
 
2003
 IAU General Assembly XXV, Sydney Australia, S219, 629
Gray, R. O., Corbally, C., Garrison, R., Mcfadden, M, Kluttz, K., Robinson, P., O'Donoghue, A., Knox, E.
Metallicities of Stars with Planets from the NStars Program
 
AAS 201st Meeting, Seattle, WA, 74.02
R.O. Gray (Appalachian State Univ.), C.J. Corbally (Vatican Obs.), R.F. Garrison (David Dunlap Obs.), M.T. McFadden, K.A. Kluttz, P.E. Robinson (Appalachian State Univ.), A.A. O'Donoghue (St Lawrence Univ.)
The Nearby Stars (NStars) Program at Appalachian State University, Vatican Observatory, and David Dunlap Observatory 
 
2002
 AAS 199th meeting, Washington, DC, 91.03
R.O. Gray (Appalachian State U.), C.J. Corbally (Vatican Obs), R.F. Garrison (David Dunlap Obs.), M.T. McFadden, P.E. Robinson (Appalachian State U.), A.A. O'Donoghue (St. Lawrence U.)
The Nearby Stars (NStars) Program at Appalachian State University, Vatican Observatory, and David Dunlap Observatory