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Kepler Mission Design, Realized Photometric Performance, and Early Science
David G. Koch, William J. Borucki, Gibor Basri +44
The Kepler Mission, launched on Mar 6, 2009 was designed with the explicit capability to detect Earth-size planets in the habitable zone of solar-like stars using the transit photo…
astro-ph.EP2010★ 169 cited
Instrument Performance in Kepler's First Months
Douglas A. Caldwell, Jeffery J. Kolodziejczak, Jeffrey E. Van Cleve +16
The Kepler Mission relies on precise differential photometry to detect the 80 parts per million (ppm) signal from an Earth-Sun equivalent transit. Such precision requires superb in…