Overview and status of the Kepler Mission

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5487, Issue PART 3, 2004, Pages 1491-1500

  Koch, D ^a   Borucki, W ^a   Dunham, E ^b   Geary, J ^c   Gilliland, R ^d   Jenkins, J ^e   Latham, D ^c   Bachtell, E ^f   Berry, D ^f   Deininger, W ^f   Duren, R ^g   Gautier, T N ^g   Gillis, L ^f   Mayer, D ^a   Miller, C ^f   Shafer, D ^f   Sobeck, C ^a   Stewart, C ^f   Weiss, M ^f  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b LOWELL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^c HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^d STScI   (United States)

^e SETI INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f BALL AEROSPACE AND TECHNOLOGIES CORP   (United States)

^g CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Earth size planets; Extra solar planets; Kepler Mission; Photometry; Planet detection; Transit method

Indexed keywords

EARTH-SIZE PLANETS; EXTRA-SOLAR PLANETS; KEPLER MISSION; PLANET DETECTION; TRANSIT METHOD;

ATMOSPHERICS; ORBITS; PHOTOMETRY; PLANETARY SURFACE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SOLAR RADIATION; SPACECRAFT; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

SOLAR SYSTEM;

EID: 10044232999     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.552346     Document Type: Conference Paper

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