Cool Stars 14 - Submitted Abstract # 325
This version created on 05 October 2006

Habitability and Life on Planets Around Cool Stars


Charles Beichman, Michelson Science Center
Wesley Traub, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Malcom Fridlund, European Space Agency

What are the astrophysical properties of stars that might lead to the
formation and evolution of habitable planets and ultimately to the
genesis of life itself?  Cool Stars XIV represents a gathering of
experts in the properties of stars that bracket those of our own sun
with its retinue of planets:  younger or older, more or less massive,
single or multiple, richer or poorer in various elements, quiescent or
active at UV or X-ray wavelengths, with or without massive Kuiper or
asteroid belts.  All these properties pertain to the suitability of
"Cool Stars" as abodes for planets and life.  

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