Selecting pixels for Kepler downlink

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7740, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Bryson, Stephen T ^a   Jenkins, Jon M ^a   Klaus, Todd C ^a   Cote, Miles T ^a   Quintana, Elisa V ^a   Hall, Jennifer R ^a   Ibrahim, Khadeejah ^a   Chandrasekaran, Hema ^b   Caldwell, Douglas A ^a   Van Cleve, Jeffrey E ^a   Haas, Michael R ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

exoplanet; Kepler; pixel selection; transit

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH CONSTRAINT; EXOPLANET; KEPLER; KEPLER MISSION; PIXEL SELECTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE; SPACECRAFT DOWNLINKS; TRANSIT;

ASTRONOMY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPACECRAFT;

PIXELS;

EID: 77956168381     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.857625     Document Type: Conference Paper

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