Kepler Planet-Detection Mission: Introduction and First Results
- W. Borucki, D. Koch, A. Prša
- Physics, GeologyScience
- 19 February 2010
The planetary findings derived from the first six weeks of observations with the Kepler mission are summarized, which include the detection of five new exoplanets, which confirm the existence of planets with densities substantially lower than those predicted for gas giant planets.
ARCHITECTURE AND DYNAMICS OF KEPLER'S CANDIDATE MULTIPLE TRANSITING PLANET SYSTEMS
- J. Lissauer, D. Ragozzine, D. Sasselov
- Physics, Geology
- 2 February 2011
About one-third of the ∼1200 transiting planet candidates detected in the first four months of Kepler data are members of multiple candidate systems. There are 115 target stars with two candidate…
LSST: From Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products
- vZeljko Ivezi'c, S. Kahn, for the Lsst Collaboration
- PhysicsAstrophysical Journal
- 15 May 2008
The LSST design is driven by four main science themes: probing dark energy and dark matter, taking an inventory of the solar system, exploring the transient optical sky, and mapping the Milky Way.
CHARACTERISTICS OF PLANETARY CANDIDATES OBSERVED BY KEPLER. II. ANALYSIS OF THE FIRST FOUR MONTHS OF DATA
- W. Borucki, D. Koch, L. Walkowicz
- Physics, Geology
- 2 February 2011
On 2011 February 1 the Kepler mission released data for 156,453 stars observed from the beginning of the science observations on 2009 May 2 through September 16. There are 1235 planetary candidates…
STELLAR DIAMETERS AND TEMPERATURES. II. MAIN-SEQUENCE K- AND M-STARS
- T. Boyajian, K. von Braun, D. Berger
- Physics
- 12 August 2012
We present interferometric angular diameter measurements of 21 low-mass, K- and M-dwarfs made with the CHARA Array. This sample is enhanced by adding a collection of radius measurements published in…
PLANET OCCURRENCE WITHIN 0.25 AU OF SOLAR-TYPE STARS FROM KEPLER
We report the distribution of planets as a function of planet radius, orbital period, and stellar effective temperature for orbital periods less than 50 days around solar-type (GK) stars. These…
The Palomar Transient Factory: System Overview, Performance, and First Results
- N. Law, S. Kulkarni, J. Zolkower
- Physics
- 30 June 2009
The Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) is a fully-automated, wide-field survey aimed at a systematic exploration of the optical transient sky. The transient survey is performed using a new 8.1 square…
The NASA Exoplanet Archive: Data and Tools for Exoplanet Research
We describe the contents and functionality of the NASA Exoplanet Archive, a database and toolset funded by NASA to support astronomers in the exoplanet community. The current content of the database…
KEPLER'S FIRST ROCKY PLANET: KEPLER-10b
- N. Batalha, W. Borucki, A. Gould
- Physics, Geology
- 3 February 2011
NASA's Kepler Mission uses transit photometry to determine the frequency of Earth-size planets in or near the habitable zone of Sun-like stars. The mission reached a milestone toward meeting that…
An abundance of small exoplanets around stars with a wide range of metallicities
- L. Buchhave, D. Latham, S. Quinn
- Physics, GeologyNature
- 21 June 2012
Spectroscopic metallicities of the host stars of 226 small exoplanet candidates discovered by NASA's Kepler mission are reported, finding that planets with radii less than four Earth radii form around host stars with a wide range of metallicities (but on average a metallicity close to that of the Sun), whereas large planets preferentially form around stars with higher metallicities.
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