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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The California-Kepler Survey. X. The radius gap as a function of stellar mass, metallicity, and age

EA Petigura, JG Rogers, H Isaacson… - The Astronomical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract In 2017, the California-Kepler Survey (CKS) published its first data release (DR1) of
high-resolution optical spectra of 1305 planet hosts. Refined CKS planet radii revealed that …

Kepler data validation II–transit model fitting and multiple-planet search

J Li, P Tenenbaum, JD Twicken, CJ Burke… - Publications of the …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper discusses the transit model-fitting and multiple-planet search algorithms and
performance of the Kepler Science Data Processing Pipeline, developed by the Kepler …

TESS Eclipsing Binary Stars. I. Short-cadence Observations of 4584 Eclipsing Binaries in Sectors 1–26

A Prša, A Kochoska, KE Conroy, N Eisner… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper we present a catalog of 4584 eclipsing binaries observed during the first two
years (26 sectors) of the TESS survey. We discuss selection criteria for eclipsing binary …

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 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 …