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most citedKepler Mission Design, Realized Photometric Performance, and Early Science

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astro-ph.IM2021★ 8 cited

The TESS Mission Target Selection Procedure

Michael Fausnaugh, Ed Morgan, Roland Vanderspek +61

We describe the target selection procedure by which stars are selected for 2-minute and 20-second observations by TESS. We first list the technical requirements of the TESS instrum…

astro-ph.IM2021

TESS Data for Asteroseismology: Photometry

Rasmus Handberg, Mikkel N. Lund, Timothy R. White +12

Over the last two decades, asteroseismology has increasingly proven to be the observational tool of choice for the study of stellar physics, aided by the high quality of data avail…

astro-ph.IM2020

Science Merit Function for the KEPLER Mission

William J. Borucki

The Kepler Mission was a NASA Discovery-class mission designed to continuously monitor the brightness of at least 100,000 stars to determine the frequency of Earth-size and larger…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 247 cited

Kepler Data Validation II -- Transit Model Fitting and Multiple-Planet Search

Jie Li, Peter Tenenbaum, Joseph D. Twicken +5

This paper discusses the transit model fitting and multiple-planet search algorithms and performance of the Kepler Science Data Processing Pipeline, developed by the Kepler Science…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 102 cited

Automatic Classification of Kepler Planetary Transit Candidates

Sean D. McCauliff, Jon M. Jenkins, Joseph Catanzarite +7

In the first three years of operation the Kepler mission found 3,697 planet candidates from a set of 18,406 transit-like features detected on over 200,000 distinct stars. Vetting c…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 126 cited

Contamination in the Kepler Field. Identification of 685 KOIs as False Positives Via Ephemeris Matching Based On Q1-Q12 Data

Jeffrey L. Coughlin, Susan E. Thompson, Stephen T. Bryson +9

The Kepler mission has to date found almost 6,000 planetary transit-like signals, utilizing three years of data for over 170,000 stars at extremely high photometric precision. Due…