RECONS Mission Statement
The purpose of RECONS is to understand the
nature of the Sun's nearest stellar neighbors, both
individually and as a population. Our goals are to discover
``missing'' members of the sample of stars within 10 parsecs
(32.6 light years), and to characterize all stars within
that distance limit. New members are found via astrometric,
photometric, and spectroscopic techniques, or through
companionship studies at small and large
separations. Characterization includes photometry and
spectroscopy at both optical and infrared wavelengths, as
well as determinations of the luminosity function, mass
function, and multiplicity fraction of the nearby stars.
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