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

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astro-ph.EP2014★ 521 cited

Validation of Kepler's Multiple Planet Candidates. III: Light Curve Analysis & Announcement of Hundreds of New Multi-planet Systems

Jason F. Rowe, Stephen T. Bryson, Geoffrey W. Marcy +25

The Kepler mission has discovered over 2500 exoplanet candidates in the first two years of spacecraft data, with approximately 40% of them in candidate multi-planet systems. The hi…

astro-ph.EP2014★ 497 cited

Masses, Radii, and Orbits of Small Kepler Planets: The Transition from Gaseous to Rocky Planets

Geoffrey W. Marcy, Howard Isaacson, Andrew W. Howard +100

We report on the masses, sizes, and orbits of the planets orbiting 22 Kepler stars. There are 49 planet candidates around these stars, including 42 detected through transits and 7…

astro-ph.EP2013★ 255 cited

Kepler-62: A five-planet system with planets of 1.4 and 1.6 Earth radii in the Habitable Zone

W. J. Borucki, E. Agol, F. Fressin +62

We present the detection of five planets -- Kepler-62b, c, d, e, and f -- of size 1.31, 0.54, 1.95, 1.61 and 1.41 Earth radii, orbiting a K2V star at periods of 5.7, 12.4, 18.2, 12…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 1.1k cited

Planetary Candidates Observed by Kepler, III: Analysis of the First 16 Months of Data

Natalie M. Batalha, Jason F. Rowe, Stephen T. Bryson +69

New transiting planet candidates are identified in sixteen months (May 2009 - September 2010) of data from the Kepler spacecraft. Nearly five thousand periodic transit-like signals…

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★ 1.2k cited

Planet Occurrence within 0.25 AU of Solar-type Stars from Kepler

Andrew W. Howard, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Stephen T. Bryson +59

We report the distribution of planets as a function of planet radius (R_p), orbital period (P), and stellar effective temperature (Teff) for P < 50 day orbits around GK stars. Thes…

astro-ph.EP2011★ 1k cited

Characteristics of planetary candidates observed by Kepler, II: Analysis of the first four months of data

William J. Borucki, David G. Koch, Gibor Basri +63

On 1 February 2011 the Kepler Mission released data for 156,453 stars observed from the beginning of the science observations on 2 May through 16 September 2009. There are 1235 pla…

astro-ph.EP2011★ 533 cited

KEPLER's First Rocky Planet: Kepler-10b

Natalie M. Batalha, William J. Borucki, Stephen T. Bryson +49

NASA's Kepler Mission uses transit photometry to determine the frequency of earth-size planets in or near the habitable zone of Sun-like stars. The mission reached a milestone towa…

astro-ph.EP2010★ 355 cited

Characteristics of Kepler Planetary Candidates Based on the First Data Set: The Majority are Found to be Neptune-Size and Smaller

William J. Borucki

In the spring of 2009, the Kepler Mission commenced high-precision photometry on nearly 156,000 stars to determine the frequency and characteristics of small exoplanets, conduct a…

astro-ph.EP2010★ 1.2k cited

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★ 98 cited

Discovery of the Transiting Planet Kepler-5b

David G. Koch, William J. Borucki, Jason F. Rowe +18

We present 44 days of high duty cycle, ultra precise photometry of the 13th magnitude star Kepler-5 (KIC 8191672, Teff=6300 K, logg=4.1), which exhibits periodic transits with a de…