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 …

Origin and evolution of the atmospheres of early Venus, Earth and Mars

H Lammer, AL Zerkle, S Gebauer, N Tosi… - The Astronomy and …, 2018 - Springer
We review the origin and evolution of the atmospheres of Earth, Venus and Mars from the
time when their accreting bodies were released from the protoplanetary disk a few million …

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 …

The California-Kepler survey. III. A gap in the radius distribution of small planets

BJ Fulton, EA Petigura, AW Howard… - The Astronomical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The size of a planet is an observable property directly connected to the physics of its
formation and evolution. We used precise radius measurements from the California-Kepler …

The California-Kepler survey. VII. Precise planet radii leveraging Gaia DR2 reveal the stellar mass dependence of the planet radius gap

BJ Fulton, EA Petigura - The Astronomical Journal, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The distribution of planet sizes encodes details of planet formation and evolution. We
present the most precise planet size distribution to date based on Gaia parallaxes, Kepler …

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 …

Disks around t tauri stars with sphere (dartts-s). i. sphere/irdis polarimetric imaging of eight prominent t tauri disks

H Avenhaus, SP Quanz, A Garufi, S Perez… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the first part of our Disks ARound T Tauri Stars with SPHERE (DARTTS-S)
survey: observations of eight T Tauri stars that were selected based on their strong (sub) …

Kepler data validation I—architecture, diagnostic tests, and data products for vetting transiting planet candidates

JD Twicken, JH Catanzarite, BD Clarke… - Publications of the …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Kepler Mission was designed to identify and characterize transiting planets in
the Kepler Field of View and to determine their occurrence rates. Emphasis was placed on …

The California-Kepler survey. IV. Metal-rich stars host a greater diversity of planets

EA Petigura, GW Marcy, JN Winn… - The Astronomical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Probing the connection between a star's metallicity and the presence and properties of any
associated planets offers an observational link between conditions during the epoch of …

Kepler eclipsing binary stars. VII. The catalog of eclipsing binaries found in the entire Kepler data set

B Kirk, K Conroy, A Prša, M Abdul-Masih… - The Astronomical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT The primary Kepler Mission provided nearly continuous monitoring of∼
200,000 objects with unprecedented photometric precision. We present the final catalog of …