An algorithm for the fitting of planet models to Kepler light curves

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7740, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Tenenbaum, Peter ^a   Bryson, Stephen T ^a   Chandrasekaran, Hema ^a,b   Li, Jie ^a   Quintana, Elisa ^a   Twicken, Joseph D ^a   Jenkins, Jon M ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

exoplanet; Kepler mission; model fit; transit; transit photometry

Indexed keywords

EXOPLANET; KEPLER MISSION; MODEL FIT; TRANSIT; TRANSIT PHOTOMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHOTOMETERS; PHOTOMETRY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STARS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

CURVE FITTING;

EID: 77956134610     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.856705     Document Type: Conference Paper

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