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astro-ph.EP2011★ 245 cited

Kepler-22b: A 2.4 Earth-radius Planet in the Habitable Zone of a Sun-like Star

William J. Borucki, David G. Koch, Natalie Batalha +80

A search of the time-series photometry from NASA's Kepler spacecraft reveals a transiting planet candidate orbiting the 11th magnitude G5 dwarf KIC 10593626 with a period of 290 da…

astro-ph.EP2011★ 195 cited

Kepler 18-b, c, and d: A System Of Three Planets Confirmed by Transit Timing Variations, Lightcurve Validation, Spitzer Photometry and Radial Velocity Measurements

William D. Cochran, Daniel C. Fabrycky, Guillermo Torres +51

We report the detection of three transiting planets around a Sunlike star, which we designate Kepler-18. The transit signals were detected in photometric data from the Kepler satel…

astro-ph.EP2011★ 136 cited

Planet Hunters: The First Two Planet Candidates Identified by the Public using the Kepler Public Archive Data

Debra Fischer, Megan Schwamb, Kevin Schawinski +28

Planet Hunters is a new citizen science project, designed to engage the public in an exoplanet search using NASA Kepler public release data. In the first month after launch, users…

astro-ph.SR2011★ 65 cited

Amplitudes of solar-like oscillations: constraints from red giants in open clusters observed by Kepler

D. Stello, D. Huber, T. Kallinger +20

Scaling relations that link asteroseismic quantities to global stellar properties are important for gaining understanding of the intricate physics that underpins stellar pulsation.…

astro-ph.EP2011★ 199 cited

The hot-Jupiter Kepler-17b: discovery, obliquity from stroboscopic starspots, and atmospheric characterization

Jean-Michel Désert, David Charbonneau, Brice-Olivier Demory +38

This paper reports the discovery and characterization of the transiting hot giant exoplanet Kepler-17b. The planet has an orbital period of 1.486 days, and radial velocity measurem…

astro-ph.EP2011★ 106 cited

Kepler-10c, a 2.2-Earth radius transiting planet in a multiple system

Francois Fressin, Guillermo Torres, Jean-Michel Desert +30

The Kepler Mission has recently announced the discovery of Kepler-10 b, the smallest exoplanet discovered to date and the first rocky planet found by the spacecraft. A second, 45-d…