Kepler planet-detection mission: Introduction and first results

Science

Volumn 327, Issue 5968, 2010, Pages 977-980

  Borucki, William J ^a   Koch, David ^a   Basri, Gibor ^b   Batalha, Natalie ^c   Brown, Timothy ^d   Caldwell, Douglas ^e   Caldwell, John ^q   Christensen Dalsgaard, Joørgen ^f   Cochran, William D ^g   Devore, Edna ^e   Dunham, Edward W ^h   Dupree, Andrea K ^j   Gautier III, Thomas N ⁱ   Geary, John C ^j   Gilliland, Ronald ^k   Gould, Alan ^r   Howell, Steve B ^o   Jenkins, Jon M ^e   Kondo, Yoji ^ac   Latham, David W ^j   Marcy, Geoffrey W ^b   Meibom, Soren ^j   Kjeldsen, Hans ^f   Lissauer, Jack J ^a   Monet, David G ^l   Morrison, David ^a   Sasselov, Dimitar ^j   Tarter, Jill ^e   Boss, Alan ^s   Brownlee, Don ^u   Owen, Toby ^t   Buzasi, Derek ^v   Charbonneau, David ^j   Doyle, Laurance ^e   Fortney, Jonathan ^x   Ford, Eric B ^m   Holman, Matthew J ^j   Seager, Sara ^y   Steffen, Jason H ^z   Welsh, William F ^aa   Rowe, Jason ^a   Anderson, Howard ^b   Buchhave, Lars ^j   Ciardi, David ^ab   Walkowicz, Lucianne ^b   Sherry, William ^o   Horch, Elliott ^w   Isaacson, Howard ^b   Everett, Mark E ⁿ   Fischer, Debra ^p   Torres, Guillermo ^j   Johnson, John Asher ^ab   Endl, Michael ^g   MacQueen, Phillip ^g   Bryson, Stephen T ^a   Dotson, Jessie ^a   Haas, Michael ^a   Kolodziejczak, Jeffrey ^ad   Van Cleve, Jeffrey ^e   Chandrasekaran, Hema ^e   Twicken, Joseph D ^e   Quintana, Elisa V ^e   Clarke, Bruce D ^e   Allen, Christopher ^ae   Li, Jie ^e   Wu, Haley ^e   Tenenbaum, Peter ^e   Verner, Ekaterina ^af   Bruhweiler, Frederick ^af   Barnes, Jason ^ag   Prsa, Andrej ^ah   more..

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d LAS CUMBRES OBSERVATORY GLOBAL TELESCOPE NETWORK   (United States)

^e SETI INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^g The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^h LOWELL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

ⁱ CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^j HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^k STScI   (United States)

^l FLAGSTAFF STATION   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

ⁿ PLANETARY SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^o NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^p YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^q YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^r Lawrence Hall of Science ^*  (United States)

^s GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^t UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT HILO   (United States)

^u UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^v EUREKA SCIENTIFIC   (United States)

^w SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^x UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^y MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^z FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^aa SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^ab CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^ac NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^ad NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^ae NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^af CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^ag UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^ah VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ASTROPHYSICS; IRRADIATION; JUPITER; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; PLANETARY SURFACE; SPACECRAFT;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; DENSITY; GAS; IRRADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUN; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77149129551     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1185402     Document Type: Article

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