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 …

How to characterize habitable worlds and signs of life

L Kaltenegger - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2017 - annualreviews.org
The detection of exoplanets orbiting other stars has revolutionized our view of the cosmos.
First results suggest that it is teeming with a fascinating diversity of rocky planets, including …

The TESS objects of interest catalog from the TESS prime mission

NM Guerrero, S Seager, CX Huang… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present 2241 exoplanet candidates identified with data from the Transiting Exoplanet
Survey Satellite (TESS) during its 2 yr Prime Mission. We list these candidates in the TESS …

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 …

Evidence for the volatile-rich composition of a 1.5-Earth-radius planet

C Piaulet, B Benneke, JM Almenara, D Dragomir… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The population of planets smaller than approximately 1.7 Earth radii (R⊕) is widely
interpreted as consisting of rocky worlds, generally referred to as super-Earths. This picture …

Kepler data validation II–transit model fitting and multiple-planet search

J Li, P Tenenbaum, JD Twicken, CJ Burke… - Publications of the …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper discusses the transit model-fitting and multiple-planet search algorithms and
performance of the Kepler Science Data Processing Pipeline, developed by the Kepler …

The occurrence of potentially habitable planets orbiting M dwarfs estimated from the full Kepler dataset and an empirical measurement of the detection sensitivity

CD Dressing, D Charbonneau - The Astrophysical Journal, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We present an improved estimate of the occurrence rate of small planets orbiting small stars
by searching the full four-year Kepler data set for transiting planets using our own planet …

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. V. Peas in a pod: Planets in a Kepler multi-planet system are similar in size and regularly spaced

LM Weiss, GW Marcy, EA Petigura… - The Astronomical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We have established precise planet radii, semimajor axes, incident stellar fluxes, and stellar
masses for 909 planets in 355 multi-planet systems discovered by Kepler. In this sample, we …

The PLATO 2.0 mission

H Rauer, C Catala, C Aerts, T Appourchaux… - Experimental …, 2014 - Springer
PLATO 2.0 has recently been selected for ESA's M3 launch opportunity (2022/24). Providing
accurate key planet parameters (radius, mass, density and age) in statistical numbers, it …