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

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122 papers

astro-ph.EP2025

Why Estimating is Difficult: A Kepler-Centric Perspective

Steve Bryson, Michelle Kunimoto, Ruslan Belikov +13

, the occurrence rate of rocky habitable zone exoplanets orbiting Sun-like stars, is of great interest to both the astronomical community and the general public. The Ke…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 6 cited

Exoplanet Science From {\it Kepler}

Jack J. Lissauer, Natalie M. Batalha, William J. Borucki

The Kepler spacecraft, whose single instrument was a 0.95 m diameter wide-field telescope, operated in a heliocentric orbit for nearly a decade, returning a wealth of data that hav…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 180 cited

The Occurrence of Rocky Habitable Zone Planets Around Solar-Like Stars from Kepler Data

Steve Bryson, Michelle Kunimoto, Ravi K. Kopparapu +79

We present occurrence rates for rocky planets in the habitable zones (HZ) of main-sequence dwarf stars based on the Kepler DR25 planet candidate catalog and Gaia-based stellar prop…

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.EP2019★ 8 cited

Kepler-62f: Kepler's First Small Planet in the Habitable Zone, but Is It Real?

William Borucki, Susan E. Thompson, Eric Agol +1

Kepler-62f is the first exoplanet small enough to plausibly have a rocky composition orbiting within the habitable zone (HZ) discovered by the Kepler Mission. The planet is 1.4 tim…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 45 cited

The Kepler Follow-Up Observation Program. II. Stellar Parameters from Medium- and High-Resolution Spectroscopy

E. Furlan, D. R. Ciardi, W. D. Cochran +22

We present results from spectroscopic follow-up observations of stars identified in the Kepler field and carried out by teams of the Kepler Follow-Up Observation Program. Two sampl…