Finding Earth-size planets in the habitable zone: The Kepler Mission

Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union

Volumn 3, Issue S249, 2007, Pages 17-24

  Borucki, William ^a   Koch, David ^a   Basri, Gibor ^b   Batalha, Natalie ^c   Brown, Timothy ^d   Caldwell, Douglas ^e   Christensen Dalsgaard, Jorgen ^f   Cochran, William ^g   Dunham, Edward ^h   Gautier, Thomas N ⁱ   Geary, John ^j   Gilliland, Ronald ^k   Jenkins, Jon ^e   Kondo, Yoji ^l   Latham, David ^j   Lissauer, Jack J ^a   Monet, David ^m  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Las Cumbres Observatory   (United States)

^e SETI INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^h LOWELL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

ⁱ CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^j SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^k STScI   (United States)

^l NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^m FLAGSTAFF STATION   (United States)

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Author keywords

Differential photometry; Exoplanets; Planet detection; Space based telescope

Indexed keywords

EID: 44249128009     PISSN: 17439213     EISSN: 17439221     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1017/S174392130801630X     Document Type: Article

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