The Habitable Zone

Overview

Habitable zone limits from Kopparapu et al. (2013) for stellar ages of 4.5 Gyr using the Baraffe et al. (2015) model grid.

Date

02/07/2022

Author

Rory Barnes

Modules

STELLAR, VSPACE, MultiPlanet

Approx. runtime

1 minutes

To run this example

python makeplot.py <pdf | png>

Expected output

examples/HabitableZone.png

Dark blue is the “conservative” habitable zone (runaway greenhouse to maximum greenhouse), orange and pale blue represent the optimistic extensions toward and away from the host star, respectively.