Kepler instrument performance: An in-flight update

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7731, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Caldwell, Douglas A ^a   Van Cleve, Jeffrey E ^a   Jenkins, Jon M ^a   Argabright, Vic S ^b   Kolodziejczak, Jeffery J ^c   Dunham, Edward W ^d   Geary, John C ^e   Tenenbaum, Peter ^a   Chandrasekarana, Hema ^a,f   Li, Jie ^a   Wu, Hayley ^a   Von Wilpert, Jason ^g  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b BALL AEROSPACE AND TECHNOLOGIES CORP   (United States)

^c NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d LOWELL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^e SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^f LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

CCD; Exoplanets; Kepler mission; Photometer; Space telescopes

Indexed keywords

BIAS LEVELS; CCD; EXO-PLANETS; FIELD OF VIEWS; FINE GUIDANCE SENSORS; FOCAL PLANE; IMAGE ARTIFACTS; INSTRUMENT PERFORMANCE; KEPLER MISSION; LONG-TERM EFFECTS; MILLION-PIXEL CCD; PARTS PER MILLIONS; PHOTOMETRIC PRECISION; READ NOISE; SCHMIDT TELESCOPE; SCIENCE OPERATIONS; SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENT; TIME-SCALES;

CROSSTALK; ION BEAMS; LAUNCHING; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MILLIMETER WAVES; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PHOTOMETERS; PHOTOMETRY; SENSORS; SPACE TELESCOPES;

INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 77958138184     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.856638     Document Type: Conference Paper

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