Characteristics of Kepler planetary candidates based on the first data set
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Article Title | Characteristics of Kepler planetary candidates based on the first data set |
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ERA Journal ID | 1057 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Borucki, William J. (Author), Koch, David G. (Author), Basri, Gibor (Author), Batalha, Natalie (Author), Boss, Alan (Author), Brown, Timothy M. (Author), Caldwell, Douglas (Author), Christensen-Dalsgaard, Jorgen (Author), Cochran, William D. (Author), DeVore, Edna (Author), Dunham, Edward W. (Author), Dupree, Andrea K. (Author), Gautier, Thomas N. (Author), Geary, John C. (Author), Gilliland, Ronald (Author), Gould, Alan (Author), Howell, Steve B. (Author), Jenkins, Jon M. (Author), Kjeldsen, Hans (Author), Latham, David W. (Author), Lissauer, Jack J. (Author), Marcy, Geoffrey W. (Author), Monet, David G. (Author), Sasselov, Dimitar (Author), Tarter, Jill (Author), Charbonneau, David (Author), Doyle, Laurance (Author), Ford, Eric B. (Author), Fortney, Jonathan (Author), Holman, Matthew J. (Author), Seager, Sara (Author), Steffen, Jason H. (Author), Welsh, William F. (Author), Allen, Christopher (Author), Bryson, Stephen T. (Author), Buchhave, Lars (Author), Chandrasekaran, Hema (Author), Christiansen, Jessie L. (Author), Ciardi, David (Author), Clarke, Bruce D. (Author), Dotson, Jessie L. (Author), Endl, Michael (Author), Fischer, Debra (Author), Fressin, Francois (Author), Haas, Michael (Author), Horch, Elliott (Author), Howard, Andrew (Author), Isaacson, Howard (Author), Kolodziejczak, Jeffery (Author), Li, Jie (Author), MacQueen, Phillip (Author), Meibom, Soren (Author), Prsa, Andrej (Author), Quintana, Elisa V. (Author), Rowe, Jason (Author), Sherry, William (Author), Tenenbaum, Peter (Author), Torres, Guillermo (Author), Twicken, Joseph D. (Author), Van Cleve, Jeffrey (Author), Walkowicz, Lucianne (Author) and Wu, Hayley (Author) |
Journal Title | The Astrophysical Journal: an international review of astronomy and astronomical physics |
Journal Citation | 728 (2), pp. 117-136 |
Article Number | 117 |
Number of Pages | 20 |
Year | 2011 |
Publisher | IOP Publishing |
Place of Publication | United States |
ISSN | 0004-637X |
1538-4357 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/728/2/117 |
Web Address (URL) | http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0004-637X/728/2/117 |
Abstract | In the spring of 2009, the Kepler Mission commenced high-precision photometry on nearly 156,000 stars to determine the frequency and characteristics of small exoplanets, conduct a guest observer program, and obtain asteroseismic data on a wide variety of stars. On 2010 June 15, the Kepler Mission released most of the data from the first quarter of observations. At the time of this data release, 705 stars from this first data set have exoplanet candidates with sizes from as small as that of Earth to larger than that of Jupiter. Here we give the identity and characteristics of 305 released stars with planetary candidates. Data for the remaining 400 stars with planetary candidates will be released in 2011 February. More than half the candidates on the released list have radii less than half that of Jupiter. Five candidates are present in and near the habitable zone; two near super-Earth size, and three bracketing the size of Jupiter. The released stars also include five possible multi-planet systems. One of these has two Neptune-size (2.3 and 2.5 Earth radius) candidates with near-resonant periods. |
Keywords | Planets and satellites: detection; Surveys; |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 510109. Stellar astronomy and planetary systems |
Public Notes | For access to this article, please click on the URL link provided. |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
Byline Affiliations | NASA Ames Research Center, United States |
University of California, United States | |
San Jose University, United States | |
Carnegie Institution of Washington, United States | |
Las Cumbres Observatory, United States | |
SETI Institute, United States | |
Aarhus University, Denmark | |
University of Texas at Austin, United States | |
Lowell Observatory, United States | |
Center for Astrophysics Harvard and Smithsonian, United States | |
California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States | |
Space Telescope Science Institute, United States | |
Lawrence Hall of Science, United States | |
National Optical Astronomy Observatory, United States | |
United States Naval Observatory, United States | |
University of Florida, United States | |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States | |
Fermilab Cosmic Physics Centre, United States | |
San Diego State University, United States | |
Orbital Sciences Corporation, United States | |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), United States | |
Massey University, New Zealand | |
Southern Connecticut State University, United States | |
Marshall Space Flight Centre, United States | |
Villanova University, United States |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q4360/characteristics-of-kepler-planetary-candidates-based-on-the-first-data-set
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