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.
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…
KEPLER MISSION DESIGN, REALIZED PHOTOMETRIC PERFORMANCE, AND EARLY SCIENCE
- D. Koch, W. Borucki, Hayley Wu
- Physics, Geology
- 2 January 2010
The Kepler Mission, launched on 2009 March 6, was designed with the explicit capability to detect Earth-size planets in the habitable zone of solar-like stars using the transit photometry method.…
A spin-down clock for cool stars from observations of a 2.5-billion-year-old cluster
- S. Meibom, S. Barnes, I. Platais, R. Gilliland, D. Latham, R. Mathieu
- PhysicsNature
- 22 January 2015
Rotation period measurements for 30 cool stars in the 2.5-billion-year-old cluster NGC 6819 reveal a well-defined relationship between rotation period and stellar mass at the cluster age, suggesting that ages with a precision of order 10 per cent can be derived for large numbers of cool Galactic field stars.
CHARACTERISTICS OF KEPLER PLANETARY CANDIDATES BASED ON THE FIRST DATA SET
- W. Borucki, D. Koch, Hayley Wu
- Physics, Geology
- 14 June 2010
In the spring of 2009, the Kepler Mission commenced high-precision photometry on nearly 156,000 stars to determine the frequency and characteristics of small exoplanets, conduct a guest observer…
SELECTION, PRIORITIZATION, AND CHARACTERISTICS OF KEPLER TARGET STARS
- N. Batalha, W. Borucki, D. Monet
- Physics, Geology
- 3 January 2010
The Kepler Mission began its 3.5 year photometric monitoring campaign in 2009 May on a select group of approximately 150,000 stars. The stars were chosen from the ∼ half million in the field of view…
THE KEPLER CLUSTER STUDY: STELLAR ROTATION IN NGC 6811
- S. Meibom, S. Barnes, E. Quintana
- Physics
- 14 April 2011
We present rotation periods for 71 single dwarf members of the open cluster NGC 6811 determined using photometry from NASA's Kepler mission. The results are the first from The Kepler Cluster Study,…
STELLAR ROTATION IN M35: MASS–PERIOD RELATIONS, SPIN-DOWN RATES, AND GYROCHRONOLOGY
- S. Meibom, R. Mathieu, K. Stassun
- Physics
- 7 May 2008
We present the results of a five month photometric time-series survey for stellar rotation over a 40′ × 40′ field centered on the 150 Myr open cluster M35. We report rotation periods for 441 stars…
Kepler’s Optical Phase Curve of the Exoplanet HAT-P-7b
- W. Borucki, D. Koch, J. Tarter
- Physics, GeologyScience
- 7 August 2009
The Kepler mission is performing at the level required to detect Earth-size planets orbiting solar-type stars, including data for the previously known giant transiting exoplanet HAT-P-7b, which shows a smooth rise and fall of light from the planet as it orbits its star, punctuated by a drop when the planet passes behind its star.
A Robust Measure of Tidal Circularization in Coeval Binary Populations: The Solar-Type Spectroscopic Binary Population in the Open Cluster M35
- S. Meibom, R. Mathieu
- Physics
- 6 December 2004
We present a new homogeneous sample of 32 spectroscopic binary orbits in the young (~150 Myr) main-sequence open cluster M35. The distribution of orbital eccentricity versus orbital period (e- log P)…
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