• DOI:10.1126/science.1178312
Corpus ID: 206522122

Kepler’s Optical Phase Curve of the Exoplanet HAT-P-7b

@article{Borucki2009KeplersOP,
  title={Kepler’s Optical Phase Curve of the Exoplanet HAT-P-7b},
  author={W. Borucki and D. Koch and J. Jenkins and D. Sasselov and R. Gilliland and N. Batalha and D. Latham and D. Caldwell and G. Basri and T. Brown and J. Christensen-Dalsgaard and W. Cochran and E. Devore and E. Dunham and A. Dupree and T. Gautier and J. Geary and A. Gould and S. Howell and H. Kjeldsen and J. Lissauer and G. Marcy and S. Meibom and D. Morrison and J. Tarter},
  journal={Science},
  year={2009},
  volume={325},
  pages={709 - 709}
}

• W. Borucki, D. Koch, +22 authors J. Tarter
• Published 2009
• Physics, Medicine
• Science

The Kepler mission is performing at the level required to detect Earth-size planets orbiting solar-type stars. Ten days of photometric data were obtained during the commissioning phase of the Kepler mission, including data for the previously known giant transiting exoplanet HAT-P-7b. The data for HAT-P-7b show a smooth rise and fall of light from the planet as it orbits its star, punctuated by a drop of 130 ± 11 parts per million in flux when the planet passes behind its star. We interpret this… Expand