TY - JOUR
T1 - Finding Earth-size planets in the habitable zone
T2 - The Kepler Mission
AU - Borucki, William
AU - Koch, David
AU - Basri, Gibor
AU - Batalha, Natalie
AU - Brown, Timothy
AU - Caldwell, Douglas
AU - Christensen-Dalsgaard, Jorgen
AU - Cochran, William
AU - Dunham, Edward
AU - Gautier, Thomas N.
AU - Geary, John
AU - Gilliland, Ronald
AU - Jenkins, Jon
AU - Kondo, Yoji
AU - Latham, David
AU - Lissauer, Jack J.
AU - Monet, David
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding for this mission is provided by NASA’s Discovery Program Office.
PY - 2007/10
Y1 - 2007/10
N2 - Abstract The Kepler Mission is a space-based mission whose primary goal is to detect Earth-size and smaller planets in the habitable zone of solar-like stars. The mission will monitor more than 100,000 stars for transits with a differential photometric precision of 20 ppm at V=12 for a 6.5 hour transit. It will also provide asteroseismic results on several thousand dwarf stars. It is specifically designed to continuously observe a single field of view of greater than 100 square degrees for 3.5 or more years. This overview describes the mission design, its goals and capabilities, the measured performance for those photometer components that have now been tested, the Kepler Input Catalog, an overview of the analysis pipeline, the plans for the Follow-up Observing Program to validate the detections and characterize the parent stars, and finally, the plans for the Guest Observer and Astrophysical Data Program.
AB - Abstract The Kepler Mission is a space-based mission whose primary goal is to detect Earth-size and smaller planets in the habitable zone of solar-like stars. The mission will monitor more than 100,000 stars for transits with a differential photometric precision of 20 ppm at V=12 for a 6.5 hour transit. It will also provide asteroseismic results on several thousand dwarf stars. It is specifically designed to continuously observe a single field of view of greater than 100 square degrees for 3.5 or more years. This overview describes the mission design, its goals and capabilities, the measured performance for those photometer components that have now been tested, the Kepler Input Catalog, an overview of the analysis pipeline, the plans for the Follow-up Observing Program to validate the detections and characterize the parent stars, and finally, the plans for the Guest Observer and Astrophysical Data Program.
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U2 - 10.1017/S174392130801630X
DO - 10.1017/S174392130801630X
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:44249128009
SN - 1743-9213
VL - 3
SP - 17
EP - 24
JO - Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union
JF - Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union
IS - S249
ER -