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Seager, S. and Bains, W. (2015) The Search for Signs of Life on Exoplanets at the Interface of Chemistry and Planetary Science. Science Advances, 1, e1500047.
https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1500047

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• TITLE: Life Origin in the Milky Way Galaxy: II. Scanning for Habitable Stellar Systems on Behalf of Future Space Missions

  AUTHORS: Alexander N. Safronov

  KEYWORDS: Interstellar Mission, Stellar Abundance, Habitability, Hypatia Stellar Catalog, DNA-Star

  JOURNAL NAME: Journal of High Energy Physics, Gravitation and Cosmology, Vol.10 No.2, April 10, 2024

  ABSTRACT: The possibility of the life origin in the stellar systems, located at a distance of ~200 pc from the solar system, was investigated. The stars, in the spectrums of which C (carbon), O (oxygen), N (nitrogen), and P (phosphorus) are found, are called DNA-stars. Based on stellar abundances a new method for searching for habitable exoplanets has been developed and a list of 48 DNA-stars in the solar neighborhood, on which life is possible, has been defined. The quota of DNA-stars is equal 1.3% of the total amount of Hypatia Stellar Catalog. Only three DNA-stars out of selected 48 stars belong to the spectral class as our Sun (G2V). The closest to the solar system is the DNA-star with the number HIP 15510, which belongs to the G8V class and is 6 pc away from the solar system. Nine DNA-stars, which have the highest chemical similarity with solar spectrum, were identified. It is identified that one of these nine stars, HIP 24681, has six planets.