The Habitable Exoplanets Catalog (Old Page)

* estimated candidates from planetary formation dynamics.

† published Kepler exoplanets candidates, a few are already confirmed and many more will be added later.

The Habitable Exoplanet Catalog (HEC) is a new project by the PHL to help identify, organize, and visualize habitable exoplanets discoveries. The HEC is still under construction and will be available here on December 5, 2011. This is the second major project of the PHL after the Visible Paleo-Earth. Send an email to Prof. Abel Méndez to be included in the project mailing list.

    There are various catalogs for the near 700 exoplanets that have been confirmed, the Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia, the Exoplanet Data Explorer, and The Visual Exoplanet Catalogue among the best. After over fifteen years of observations, scientists are now starting to identify potential habitable exoplanets, like Gliese 581d.

    New observations with ground and orbital observatories, like Kepler, will help to identify tens or even hundreds of new potential habitable exoplanets in the coming years. The HEC will use new developments by the PHL like the Earth Similarity Index (ESI), the Habitable Zones Distance (HZD), classification systems, and comparisons with Earth past and present, to help assess the habitability of these discoveries.