KEPLER MISSION DESIGN, REALIZED PHOTOMETRIC PERFORMANCE, AND EARLY SCIENCE

被引：1020

作者：

Koch, David G. ^{[1
]}

Borucki, William J.

Basri, Gibor ^{[2
]}

Batalha, Natalie M. ^{[3
]}

Brown, Timothy M. ^{[4
]}

Caldwell, Douglas ^{[5
]}

Christensen-Dalsgaard, Jorgen ^{[6
]}

Cochran, William D. ^{[7
]}

DeVore, Edna ^{[5
]}

Dunham, Edward W. ^{[8
]}

Gautier, Thomas N., III ^{[9
]}

Geary, John C. ^{[10
]}

Gilliland, Ronald L. ^{[11
]}

Gould, Alan

Jenkins, Jon ^{[5
]}

Kondo, Yoji ^{[12
]}

Latham, David W. ^{[10
]}

Lissauer, Jack J.

Marcy, Geoffrey ^{[2
]}

Monet, David ^{[13
]}

Sasselov, Dimitar ^{[10
]}

Boss, Alan ^{[14
]}

Brownlee, Donald ^{[15
]}

Caldwell, John ^{[16
]}

Dupree, Andrea K. ^{[10
]}

Howell, Steve B. ^{[17
]}

Kjeldsen, Hans ^{[6
]}

Meibom, Soren ^{[10
]}

Morrison, David

Owen, Tobias ^{[18
]}

Reitsema, Harold ^{[19
]}

Tarter, Jill ^{[5
]}

Bryson, Stephen T.

Dotson, Jessie L.

Gazis, Paul ^{[5
]}

Haas, Michael R.

Kolodziejczak, Jeffrey ^{[20
]}

Rowe, Jason F.

Van Cleve, Jeffrey E. ^{[5
]}

Allen, Christopher ^{[21
]}

Chandrasekaran, Hema ^{[5
]}

Clarke, Bruce D. ^{[5
]}

Li, Jie ^{[5
]}

Quintana, Elisa V. ^{[5
]}

Tenenbaum, Peter ^{[5
]}

Twicken, Joseph D. ^{[5
]}

Wu, Hayley ^{[5
]}

机构：

[1] NASA, Ames Res Ctr, Moffett Field, CA 94035 USA

[2] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Astron, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA

[3] San Jose State Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, San Jose, CA 95192 USA

[4] Las Cumbres Observ Global Telescope, Goleta, CA 93117 USA

[5] NASA, Ames Res Ctr, SETI Inst, Moffett Field, CA 94035 USA

[6] Aarhus Univ, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark

[7] Univ Texas Austin, McDonald Observ, Austin, TX 78712 USA

[8] Lowell Observ, Flagstaff, AZ 86001 USA

[9] CALTECH, Jet Prop Lab, Pasadena, CA 91109 USA

[10] Harvard Smithsonian Ctr Astrophys, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

[11] Space Telescope Sci Inst, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA

[12] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA

[13] USN Observ, Flagstaff, AZ 86002 USA

[14] Carnegie Inst Washington, Washington, DC 20015 USA

[15] Univ Washington, Dept Astron, Seattle, WA 98195 USA

[16] York Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, Canada

[17] Natl Opt Astron Observ, Tucson, AZ 85726 USA

[18] Univ Hawaii, Inst Astron, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA

[19] Ball Aerosp & Technol Corp, Boulder, CO 80306 USA

[20] NASA, George C Marshall Space Flight Ctr, Space Sci Off, Huntsville, AL 35812 USA

[21] NASA, Ames Res Ctr, Orbital Sci Corp, Moffett Field, CA 94035 USA

来源：

ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS | 2010年 / 713卷 / 02期

关键词：

instrumentation: photometers; planetary systems; space vehicles: instruments; stars: statistics; stars: variables: general; techniques: photometric; SOLAR-LIKE OSCILLATIONS; INITIAL CHARACTERISTICS; TRANSITING PLANET; TARGET STARS; CADENCE DATA; RED GIANT; 1ST; DISCOVERY; ASTEROSEISMOLOGY; VARIABILITY;

D O I：

10.1088/2041-8205/713/2/L79

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

The Kepler Mission, launched on 2009 March 6, was designed with the explicit capability to detect Earth-size planets in the habitable zone of solar-like stars using the transit photometry method. Results from just 43 days of data along with ground-based follow-up observations have identified five new transiting planets with measurements of their masses, radii, and orbital periods. Many aspects of stellar astrophysics also benefit from the unique, precise, extended, and nearly continuous data set for a large number and variety of stars. Early results for classical variables and eclipsing stars show great promise. To fully understand the methodology, processes, and eventually the results from the mission, we present the underlying rationale that ultimately led to the flight and ground system designs used to achieve the exquisite photometric performance. As an example of the initial photometric results, we present variability measurements that can be used to distinguish dwarf stars from red giants.

引用

页码：L79 / L86

页数：8

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