Cool Stars 14 - Submitted Abstract # 329
This version created on 05 October 2006

Detection of planets in the habitable zones of nearby stars by
Terrestrial Planet Finder and SIM PlanetQuest


Joseph Catanzarite, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Michael Shao, Jet Propulsion Laboratory , California Institute of Technology

We present results of Monte Carlo simulations of detection of planets
orbiting in the habitable zones of potential TPF target stars by both
TPF and SIM PlanetQuest.  The simulations depend critically on the
assumed distributions of planet masses and semimajor axes in this
regime.  Currently there is little, if any, observational constraint
on these distributions.  We investigate several different planet
distributions consistent with observations and favored by theorists.
This work was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California
Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration.  

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