Kepler mission: A mission to find earth-size planets in the habitable zone

European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP

Volumn , Issue 539, 2003, Pages 69-82

  Borucki, William J ^a   Koch, David ^a   Basri, Gibor ^b   Brown, Timothy ^c   Caldwell, Douglas ^d   DeVore, Edna ^d   Dunham, Edward ^e   Gautier, Thomas ^f   Geary, John ^g   Gilliland, Ronald ^h   Gould, Alan ^b   Howell, Steve ⁱ   Jenkins, Jon ^d  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d SETI INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e LOWELL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^f CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^h STScI   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; ASTRONOMY; ASTROPHYSICS; DOPPLER EFFECT; FREQUENCIES; MACHINE DESIGN; ORBITS; PHOTOMETERS; SPACE RESEARCH; SUN; TELESCOPES;

BRIGHTNESS MONITORING; HABITABLE PLANETS; PLANETARY SYSTEMS; TERRESTRIAL PLANETS;

PLANETS;

EID: 3142661333     PISSN: 03796566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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