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New Catalog Helps SETI Avoid Wasting Time on Unlikely Stars
Key Takeaways
- SETI faces a practical problem: with billions of stars and limited telescope time, which ones to listen to?
- Most SETI programs prioritize proximity, but not all stars are good candidates for hosting complex life.
- Sahin Torlakcik, a high school student, created the Torlakcik Catalog using seven stellar parameters to filter out unlikely stars.
- The catalog removes stars that are too massive, too young, metal-poor, in binary systems, or have high variability/activity.
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