KEPLER Mission: development and overview

WJ Borucki - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Kepler Mission is a space observatory launched in 2009 by NASA to monitor
170 000 stars over a period of four years to determine the frequency of Earth-size and larger …

The TESS objects of interest catalog from the TESS prime mission

NM Guerrero, S Seager, CX Huang… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present 2241 exoplanet candidates identified with data from the Transiting Exoplanet
Survey Satellite (TESS) during its 2 yr Prime Mission. We list these candidates in the TESS …

Fast and scalable Gaussian process modeling with applications to astronomical time series

D Foreman-Mackey, E Agol… - The Astronomical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The growing field of large-scale time domain astronomy requires methods for probabilistic
data analysis that are computationally tractable, even with large data sets. Gaussian …

The occurrence of potentially habitable planets orbiting M dwarfs estimated from the full Kepler dataset and an empirical measurement of the detection sensitivity

CD Dressing, D Charbonneau - The Astrophysical Journal, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We present an improved estimate of the occurrence rate of small planets orbiting small stars
by searching the full four-year Kepler data set for transiting planets using our own planet …

Prevalence of Earth-size planets orbiting Sun-like stars

EA Petigura, AW Howard… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Determining whether Earth-like planets are common or rare looms as a touchstone in the
question of life in the universe. We searched for Earth-size planets that cross in front of their …

Identifying exoplanets with deep learning: A five-planet resonant chain around kepler-80 and an eighth planet around kepler-90

CJ Shallue, A Vanderburg - The Astronomical Journal, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract NASA's Kepler Space Telescope was designed to determine the frequency of Earth-
sized planets orbiting Sun-like stars, but these planets are on the very edge of the mission's …

Kepler presearch data conditioning II-a Bayesian approach to systematic error correction

JC Smith, MC Stumpe, JE Van Cleve… - Publications of the …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
With the unprecedented photometric precision of the Kepler spacecraft, significant
systematic and stochastic errors on transit signal levels are observable in the Kepler …

Rotation periods of 34,030 Kepler main-sequence stars: the full autocorrelation sample

A McQuillan, T Mazeh, S Aigrain - The Astrophysical Journal …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We analyzed three years of data from the Kepler space mission to derive rotation periods of
main-sequence stars below 6500 K. Our automated autocorrelation-based method detected …

Advances in exoplanet science from Kepler

JJ Lissauer, RI Dawson, S Tremaine - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Numerous telescopes and techniques have been used to find and study extrasolar planets,
but none has been more successful than NASA's Kepler space telescope. Kepler has …

Multiscale systematic error correction via wavelet-based bandsplitting in Kepler data

MC Stumpe, JC Smith, JH Catanzarite… - Publications of the …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
The previous presearch data conditioning algorithm, PDC-MAP, for the Kepler data
processing pipeline performs very well for the majority of targets in the Kepler field of view …