3 papers
astro-ph.EP2011
Kepler-16: A Transiting Circumbinary Planet
Laurance R. Doyle, Joshua A. Carter, Daniel C. Fabrycky +46
We report the detection of a planet whose orbit surrounds a pair of low-mass stars. Data from the Kepler spacecraft reveal transits of the planet across both stars, in addition to…
astro-ph.SR2011
Kepler Eclipsing Binary Stars. II. 2165 Eclipsing Binaries in the Second Data Release
Robert W. Slawson, Andrej Prsa, William F. Welsh +21
The Kepler Mission provides nearly continuous monitoring of ~156 000 objects with unprecedented photometric precision. Coincident with the first data release, we presented a catalo…
astro-ph.SR2010
Kepler Eclipsing Binary Stars. I. Catalog and Principal Characterization of 1879 Eclipsing Binaries in the First Data Release
Andrej Prsa, Natalie M. Batalha, Robert W. Slawson +12
The Kepler space mission is devoted to finding Earth-size planets in habitable zones orbiting other stars. Its large, 105-deg field-of-view features over 156,000 stars that are obs…