Semi-weekly monitoring of the performance and attitude of Kepler using a sparse set of targets

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7740, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Chandrasekaran, Hema ^a,b   Jenkins, Jon M ^a   Li, Jie ^a   Girouard, Forrest R ^a   Twicken, Joseph D ^a   Caldwell, Douglas A ^a   Allen, Christopher ^a   Bryson, Stephen T ^a   Klaus, Todd C ^a   Cote, Miles T ^a   Stroozas, Brett A ^c   Hall, Jennifer R ^a   Ibrahim, Khadeejah ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Stroozas FlightOps   (United States)

Author keywords

attitude reconstruction; exoplanet; Kepler Mission; performance monitoring; tracking and trending; transit

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE RECONSTRUCTION; EXOPLANET; KEPLER MISSION; PERFORMANCE MONITORING; TRACKING AND TRENDING; TRANSIT;

PHOTOMETERS; PHOTOMETRY; STARS;

SPACECRAFT;

EID: 77956135027     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.856741     Document Type: Conference Paper

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