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The Muscles Treasure Survey. I. Motivation And Overview, Kevin France, R. O. Parke Loyd, Allison Youngblood, Alexander Brown, P. Christian Schneider, Suzanne L. Hawley, Cynthia S. Froning, Jeffrey L. Linsky, Aki Roberge, Andrea P. Buccino, James R. A. Davenport, Juan M. Fontenla, Lisa Kaltenegger, Adam F. Kowalski, Pablo J. D. Mauas, Yamila Miguel, Seth Redfield, Sarah Rugheimer, Feng Tian, Mariela C. Vieytes, Lucianne M. Walkowicz, Kolby L. Weisenburger

Physics & Astronomy

Ground- and space-based planet searches employing radial velocity techniques and transit photometry have detected thousands of planet-hosting stars in the Milky Way. With so many planets discovered, the next step toward identifying potentially habitable planets is atmospheric characterization. While the Sun–Earth system provides a good framework for understanding the atmospheric chemistry of Earth-like planets around solar-type stars, the observational and theoretical constraints on the atmospheres of rocky planets in the habitable zones (HZs) around low-mass stars (K and M dwarfs) are relatively few. The chemistry of these atmospheres is controlled by the shape and absolute flux of the stellar spectral …