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Kepler Planet-Detection Mission: Introduction and First Results
- W. Borucki, D. Koch, +68 authors A. Prša
- Geology, Medicine
- Science
- 19 February 2010
Detecting Distant Planets More than 400 planets have been detected outside the solar system, most of which have masses similar to that of the gas giant planet, Jupiter. Borucki et al. (p. 977,… Expand
Long-Term Stability of Planets in Binary Systems
- M. Holman, P. Wiegert
- Physics
- 1 September 1996
A simple question of celestial mechanics is investigated: in what regions of phase space near a binary system can planets persist for long times? The planets are taken to be test particles moving in… Expand
Architecture and Dynamics of Kepler's Candidate Multiple Transiting Planet Systems
- J. Lissauer, D. Ragozzine, +22 authors D. Sasselov
- Physics
- 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… Expand
A super-Earth transiting a nearby low-mass star
- D. Charbonneau, Z. K. Berta, +16 authors T. Forveille
- Physics, Medicine
- Nature
- 16 December 2009
A decade ago, the detection of the first transiting extrasolar planet provided a direct constraint on its composition and opened the door to spectroscopic investigations of extrasolar planetary… Expand
Characteristics of planetary candidates observed by Kepler, II: Analysis of the first four months of data
- W. Borucki, D. Koch, +63 authors L. Walkowicz
- Physics
- 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… Expand
A closely packed system of low-mass, low-density planets transiting Kepler-11
- J. Lissauer, D. Fabrycky, +36 authors J. Steffen
- Physics, Medicine
- Nature
- 1 February 2011
When an extrasolar planet passes in front of (transits) its star, its radius can be measured from the decrease in starlight and its orbital period from the time between transits. Multiple planets… Expand
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… Expand
Improved Parameters for Extrasolar Transiting Planets
We present refined values for the physical parameters of transiting exoplanets, based on a self-consistent and uniform analysis of transit light curves and the observable properties of the host… Expand
KEPLER'S FIRST ROCKY PLANET: KEPLER-10b*
- N. Batalha, W. Borucki, +74 authors High Altitude Observatory
- Physics
- 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… Expand
Kepler-16: A Transiting Circumbinary Planet
- L. Doyle, J. A. Carter, +46 authors D. Fischer
- Physics, Medicine
- Science
- 15 September 2011
An exoplanet has been observed, comparable in size and mass to Saturn, that orbits a pair of stars. We report the detection of a planet whose orbit surrounds a pair of low-mass stars. Data from the… Expand