KEPLER Mission: development and overview

WJ Borucki - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Kepler Mission is a space observatory launched in 2009 by NASA to monitor
170 000 stars over a period of four years to determine the frequency of Earth-size and larger …

[HTML][HTML] Exoplanetary atmospheres—chemistry, formation conditions, and habitability

N Madhusudhan, M Agúndez, JI Moses, Y Hu - Space science reviews, 2016 - Springer
Characterizing the atmospheres of extrasolar planets is the new frontier in exoplanetary
science. The last two decades of exoplanet discoveries have revealed that exoplanets are …

Identifying exoplanets with deep learning: A five-planet resonant chain around kepler-80 and an eighth planet around kepler-90

CJ Shallue, A Vanderburg - The Astronomical Journal, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract NASA's Kepler Space Telescope was designed to determine the frequency of Earth-
sized planets orbiting Sun-like stars, but these planets are on the very edge of the mission's …

batman: basic transit model calculation in Python

L Kreidberg - Publications of the Astronomical Society of the …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
I introduce batman, a Python package for modeling exoplanet transit and eclipse light
curves. The batman package supports calculation of light curves for any radially symmetric …

Kepler data validation I—architecture, diagnostic tests, and data products for vetting transiting planet candidates

JD Twicken, JH Catanzarite, BD Clarke… - Publications of the …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Kepler Mission was designed to identify and characterize transiting planets in
the Kepler Field of View and to determine their occurrence rates. Emphasis was placed on …

False positive probabilities for all Kepler objects of interest: 1284 newly validated planets and 428 likely false positives

TD Morton, ST Bryson, JL Coughlin… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We present astrophysical false positive probability calculations for every Kepler Object of
Interest (KOI)—the first large-scale demonstration of a fully automated transiting planet …

The California-Kepler Survey. I. High-resolution spectroscopy of 1305 stars hosting Kepler transiting planets

EA Petigura, AW Howard, GW Marcy… - The Astronomical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The California-Kepler Survey (CKS) is an observational program developed to
improve our knowledge of the properties of stars found to host transiting planets by NASA's …

Terrestrial planet occurrence rates for the Kepler GK dwarf sample

CJ Burke, JL Christiansen, F Mullally… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We measure planet occurrence rates using the planet candidates discovered by the Q1-Q16
Kepler pipeline search. This study examines planet occurrence rates for the Kepler GK dwarf …

Planetary candidates observed by Kepler. VII. The first fully uniform catalog based on the entire 48-month data set (Q1–Q17 DR24)

JL Coughlin, F Mullally, SE Thompson… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the seventh Kepler planet candidate (PC) catalog, which is the first catalog to be
based on the entire, uniformly processed 48-month Kepler data set. This is the first fully …

Cold Jupiters and improved masses in 38 Kepler and K2 small planet systems from 3661 HARPS-N radial velocities-No excess of cold Jupiters in small planet …

AS Bonomo, X Dumusque, A Massa, A Mortier… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
The exoplanet population characterized by relatively short orbital periods (P< 100 d) around
solar-type stars is dominated by super-Earths and sub-Neptunes. However, these planets …