TY - JOUR
T1 - The Kepler Asteroseismic Investigation
T2 - Scientific goals and first results
AU - Kjeldsen, H.
AU - Christensen-Dalsgaard, J.
AU - Handberg, R.
AU - Brown, T. M.
AU - Gilliland, R. L.
AU - Borucki, W. J.
AU - Koch, D.
PY - 2010/12
Y1 - 2010/12
N2 - Kepler is a NASA mission designed to detect exoplanets and characterize the properties of exoplanetary systems. Kepler also includes an asteroseismic programme which is being conducted through the Kepler Asteroseismic Science Consortium (KASC), whose 400 members are organized into 13 working groups by type of variable star. So far data have been available from the first 7 month of the mission containing a total of 2937 targets observed at a 1-min cadence for periods between 10 days and 7 months. The goals of the asteroseismic part of the Kepler project is to perform detailed studies of stellar interiors. The first results of the asteroseismic analysis are orders of magnitude better than seen before, and this bodes well for how the future analysis of Kepler data for many types of stars will impact our general understanding of stellar structure and evolution.
AB - Kepler is a NASA mission designed to detect exoplanets and characterize the properties of exoplanetary systems. Kepler also includes an asteroseismic programme which is being conducted through the Kepler Asteroseismic Science Consortium (KASC), whose 400 members are organized into 13 working groups by type of variable star. So far data have been available from the first 7 month of the mission containing a total of 2937 targets observed at a 1-min cadence for periods between 10 days and 7 months. The goals of the asteroseismic part of the Kepler project is to perform detailed studies of stellar interiors. The first results of the asteroseismic analysis are orders of magnitude better than seen before, and this bodes well for how the future analysis of Kepler data for many types of stars will impact our general understanding of stellar structure and evolution.
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U2 - 10.1002/asna.201011437
DO - 10.1002/asna.201011437
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:78649439202
SN - 0004-6337
VL - 331
SP - 966
EP - 971
JO - Astronomische Nachrichten
JF - Astronomische Nachrichten
IS - 9-10
ER -