The REsearch Consortium On Nearby Stars (RECONS) is an international group of astronomers founded in 1994 to investigate the stars nearest to the Solar System - with a focus on those within 10 parsecs (32.6 light years), but as of 2012 the horizon was stretched to 25 parsecs. In part the project hopes a more accurate survey of local star systems will give a better picture of the star systems in the Galaxy as a whole.
The Consortium claims authorship of the series The Solar NeighborhoodinThe Astronomical Journal, that began in 1994.[1] This series now numbers nearly 40 papers and submissions. The following discoveries are from this series:
RECONS is listed explicitly as an author on papers submitted to the Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society since 2004.[5]
The RECONS web page includes the frequently referenced "List of the 100 nearest star systems".[6] They update this list as discoveries are made. A list of all RECONS parallaxes[7] is available, as are all papers in the solar neighborhood series[8] and [9] which illustrates data from the RECONS 25 Parsec Database.
Key astronomers involved in the project include
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