Finding Earth-size planets in the habitable zone: the Kepler Mission
Abstract
The Kepler Mission is a space-based mission whose primary goal is to detect Earth-size and smaller planets in the habitable zone of solar-like stars. The mission will monitor more than 100,000 stars for transits with a differential photometric precision of 20 ppm at V=12 for a 6.5 hour transit. It will also provide asteroseismic results on several thousand dwarf stars. It is specifically designed to continuously observe a single field of view of greater than 100 square degrees for 3.5 or more years.
- Publication:
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Exoplanets: Detection, Formation and Dynamics
- Pub Date:
- May 2008
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S174392130801630X
- Bibcode:
- 2008IAUS..249...17B
- Keywords:
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- Planet detection;
- exoplanets;
- differential photometry;
- space-based telescope