KEPLER: Search for Earth-Size Planets in the Habitable Zone
Abstract
The Kepler Mission is a space-based mission whose primary goal is to determine the frequency of Earth-size and larger planets in the habitable zone of solar-like stars. The mission will monitor more than 100,000 stars for patterns of 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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Transiting Planets
- Pub Date:
- February 2009
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1743921308026513
- Bibcode:
- 2009IAUS..253..289B