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Planetary Candidates Observed By Kepler. Vi. Planet Sample from Q1-Q16 (47 Months)

Mullally, F.; Coughlin, Jeffrey L.; Thompson, Susan E.; Rowe, Jason; Burke, Christopher; Latham, David W.; Batalha, Natalie M.; Bryson, Stephen T.; Christiansen, Jessie; Henze, Christopher E.; Ofir, Aviv; Quarles, Billy; Shporer, Avi; Van Eylen, Vincent; Van Laerhoven, Christa; Shah, Yash; Wolfgang, Angie; Chaplin, W. J.; Xie, Ji-Wei; Akeson, Rachel; Argabright, Vic; Bachtell, Eric; Barclay, Thomas; Borucki, William J.; Caldwell, Douglas A.; Campbell, Jennifer R.; Catanzarite, Joseph H.; Cochran, William D.; Duren, Riley M.; Fleming, Scott W.; Fraquelli, Dorothy; Girouard, Forrest R.; Haas, Michael R.; Helminiak, Krzysztof G.; Howell, Steve B.; Huber, Daniel; Larson, Kipp; Gautier, Thomas N., III; Jenkins, Jon M.; Li, Jie; Lissauer, Jack J.; McArthur, Scot; Miller, Chris; Morris, Robert L.; Patil-Sabale, Anima; Plavchan, Peter; Putnam, Dustin; Quintana, Elisa V.; Ramirez, Solange; Aguirre, V. Silva; Seader, Shawn; Smith, Jeffrey C.; Steffen, Jason H.; Stewart, Chris; Stober, Jeremy; Still, Martin; Tenenbaum, Peter; Troeltzsch, John; Twicken, Joseph D.; Zamudio, Khadeejah A. (2015-04)

We present the sixth catalog of Kepler candidate planets based on nearly four years of high precision photometry. This catalog builds on the legacy of previous catalogs released by the Kepler project and includes 1493 new ...

Kepler-22B: A 2.4 Earth-Radius Planet In The Habitable Zone Of A Sun-Like Star

Borucki, William J.; Koch, David G.; Batalha, Natalie; Bryson, Stephen T.; Rowe, Jason; Fressin, Francois; Torres, Guillermo; Caldwell, Douglas A.; Christensen-Dalsgaard, Jorgen; Cochran, William D.; DeVore, Edna; Gautier, Thomas N., III; Geary, John C.; Gilliland, Ronald; Gould, Alan; Howell, Steve B.; Jenkins, Jon M.; Latham, David W.; Lissauer, Jack J.; Marcy, Geoffrey W.; Sasselov, Dimitar; Boss, Alan; Charbonneau, David; Ciardi, David; Kaltenegger, Lisa; Doyle, Laurance; Dupree, Andrea K.; Ford, Eric B.; Fortney, Jonathan; Holman, Matthew J.; Steffen, Jason H.; Mullally, Fergal; Still, Martin; Tarter, Jill; Ballard, Sarah; Buchhave, Lars A.; Carter, Josh; Christiansen, Jessie L.; Demory, Brice-Olivier; Desert, Jean-Michel; Dressing, Courtney; Endl, Michael; Fabrycky, Daniel; Fischer, Debra; Haas, Michael R.; Henze, Christopher; Horch, Elliott; Howard, Andrew W.; Isaacson, Howard; Kjeldsen, Hans; Johnson, John Asher; Klaus, Todd; Kolodziejczak, Jeffery; Barclay, Thomas; Li, Jie; Meibom, Soren; Prsa, Andrej; Quinn, Samuel N.; Quintana, Elisa V.; Robertson, Paul; Sherry, William; Shporer, Avi; Tenenbaum, Peter; Thompson, Susan E.; Twicken, Joseph D.; Van Cleve, Jeffrey; Welsh, William F.; Basu, Sarbani; Chaplin, William; Miglio, Andrea; Kawaler, Steven D.; Arentoft, Torben; Stello, Dennis; Metcalfe, Travis S.; Verner, Graham A.; Karoff, Christoffer; Lundkvist, Mia; Lund, Mikkel N.; Handberg, Rasmus; Elsworth, Yvonne; Hekker, Saskia; Huber, Daniel; Bedding, Timothy R.; Rapin, William (2012-02)

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 days. The characteristics of the host star ...

KOI-54: The Kepler Discovery of Tidally Excited Pulsations and Brightenings in a Highly Eccentric Binary

Welsh, William F.; Orosz, Jerome A.; Aerts, Conny; Brown, Timothy M.; Brugamyer, Erik; Cochran, William D.; Gilliland, Ronald L.; Guzik, Joyce Ann; Kurtz, D. W.; Latham, David W.; Marcy, Geoffrey W.; Quinn, Samuel N.; Zima, Wolfgang; Allen, Christopher; Batalha, Natalie M.; Bryson, Steve; Buchhave, Lars A.; Caldwell, Douglas A.; Gautier, Thomas N., III; Howell, Steve B.; Kinemuchi, K.; Ibrahim, Khadeejah A.; Isaacson, Howard; Jenkins, Jon M.; Prsa, Andrej; Still, Martin; Street, Rachel; Wohler, Bill; Koch, David G.; Borucki, William J. (2011-11)

Kepler observations of the star HD 187091 (KIC 8112039, hereafter KOI-54) revealed a remarkable light curve exhibiting sharp periodic brightening events every 41.8 days with a superimposed set of oscillations forming a ...

Characteristics Of Kepler Planetary Candidates Based On The First Data Set

Borucki, William J.; Koch, David G.; Basri, Gibor; Batalha, Natalie; Boss, Alan; Brown, Timothy M.; Caldwell, Douglas; Christensen-Dalsgaard, Jorgen; Cochran, William D.; DeVore, Edna; Dunham, Edward W.; Dupree, Andrea K.; Gautier, Thomas N., III; Geary, John C.; Gilliland, Ronald; Gould, Alan; Howell, Steve B.; Jenkins, Jon M.; Kjeldsen, Hans; Latham, David W.; Lissauer, Jack J.; Marcy, Geoffrey W.; Monet, David G.; Sasselov, Dimitar; Tarter, Jill; Charbonneau, David; Doyle, Laurance; Ford, Eric B.; Fortney, Jonathan; Holman, Matthew J.; Seager, Sara; Steffen, Jason H.; Welsh, William F.; Allen, Christopher; Bryson, Stephen T.; Buchhave, Lars; Chandrasekaran, Hema; Christiansen, Jessie L.; Ciardi, David; Clarke, Bruce D.; Dotson, Jessie L.; Endl, Michael; Fischer, Debra; Fressin, Francois; Haas, Michael; Horch, Elliott; Howard, Andrew; Isaacson, Howard; Kolodziejczak, Jeffery; Li, Jie; MacQueen, Phillip; Meibom, Soren; Prsa, Andrej; Quintana, Elisa V.; Rowe, Jason; Sherry, William; Tenenbaum, Peter; Torres, Guillermo; Twicken, Joseph D.; Van Cleve, Jeffrey; Walkowicz, Lucianne; Wu, Hayley (2011-02)

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 guest observer program, and obtain ...

Kepler Observations of Transiting Hot Compact Objects

Rowe, Jason F.; Borucki, William J.; Koch, David; Howell, Steve B.; Basri, Gibor; Batalha, Natalie; Brown, Timothy M.; Caldwell, Douglas; Cochran, William D.; Dunham, Edward; Dupree, Andrea K.; Fortney, Jonathan J.; Gautier, Thomas N., III; Gilliland, Ronald L.; Jenkins, Jon; Latham, David W.; Lissauer, Jack J.; Marcy, Geoff; Monet, David G.; Sasselov, Dimitar; Welsh, William F. (2010-04)

Kepler photometry has revealed two unusual transiting companions: one orbiting an early A-star and the other orbiting a late B-star. In both cases, the occultation of the companion is deeper than the transit. The occultation ...

Kepler Mission Design, Realized Photometric Performance, and Early Science

Koch, David G.; Borucki, William J.; Basri, Gibor; Batalha, Natalie M.; Brown, Timothy M.; Caldwell, Douglas; Christensen-Dalsgaard, Jorgen; Cochran, William D.; DeVore, Edna; Dunham, Edward W.; Gautier, Thomas N., III; Geary, John C.; Gilliland, Ronald L.; Gould, Alan; Jenkins, Jon; Kondo, Yoji; Latham, David W.; Lissauer, Jack J.; Marcy, Geoffrey; Monet, David; Sasselov, Dimitar; Boss, Alan; Brownlee, Donald; Caldwell, John; Dupree, Andrea K.; Howell, Steve B.; Kjeldsen, Hans; Meibom, Soren; Morrison, David; Owen, Tobias; Reitsema, Harold; Tarter, Jill; Bryson, Stephen T.; Dotson, Jessie L.; Gazis, Paul; Haas, Michael R.; Kolodziejczak, Jeffrey; Rowe, Jason F.; Van Cleve, Jeffrey E.; Allen, Christopher; Chandrasekaran, Hema; Clarke, Bruce D.; Li, Jie; Quintana, Elisa V.; Tenenbaum, Peter; Twicken, Joseph D.; Wu, Hayley (2010-04)

The Kepler Mission, launched on 2009 March 6, was designed with the explicit capability to detect Earth-size planets in the habitable zone of solar-like stars using the transit photometry method. Results from just 43 days ...

Precision Asteroseismology Of The Pulsating White Dwarf Gd 1212 Using A Two-Wheel-Controlled Kepler Spacecraft

Hermes, J. J.; Charpinet, S.; Barclay, Thomas; Pakstiene, E.; Mullally, Fergal; Kawaler, Steven D.; Bloemen, S.; Castanheira, Barbara G.; Winget, D. E.; Montgomery, Michael H.; Van Grootel, V.; Huber, Daniel; Still, Martin; Howell, Steve B.; Caldwell, Douglas A.; Haas, Michael R.; Bryson, Stephen T. (2014-07)

We present a preliminary analysis of the cool pulsating white dwarf (WD) GD 1212, enabled by more than 11.5 days of space-based photometry obtained during an engineering test of the two-reaction-wheel-controlled Kepler ...

Kepler-20: A Sun-Like Star With Three Sub-Neptune Exoplanets And Two Earth-Size Candidates

Gautier, Thomas N., III; Charbonneau, David; Rowe, Jason F.; Marcy, Geoffrey W.; Isaacson, Howard; Torres, Guillermo; Fressin, Francois; Rogers, Leslie A.; Desert, Jean-Michel; Buchhave, Lars A.; Latham, David W.; Quinn, Samuel N.; Ciardi, David R.; Fabrycky, Daniel C.; Ford, Eric B.; Gilliland, Ronald L.; Walkowicz, Lucianne M.; Bryson, Stephen T.; Cochran, William D.; Endl, Michael; Fischer, Debra A.; ; Howell, Steve B.; Horch, Elliott P.; Barclay, Thomas; Batalha, Natalie; Borucki, William J.; Christiansen, Jessie L.; Geary, John C.; Henze, Christopher E.; Holman, Matthew J.; Ibrahim, Khadeejah; Jenkins, Jon M.; Kinemuchi, Karen; Koch, David G.; Lissauer, Jack J.; Sanderfer, Dwight T.; Sasselov, Dimitar D.; Seager, Sara; Silverio, Kathryn; Smith, Jeffrey C.; Still, Martin; Stumpe, Martin C.; Tenenbaum, Peter; Van Cleve, Jeffrey (2012-04)

We present the discovery of the Kepler-20 planetary system, which we initially identified through the detection of five distinct periodic transit signals in the Kepler light curve of the host star 2MASS J19104752+4220194. ...

Kepler-10 c: a 2.2 Earth Radius Transiting Planet in a Multiple System

Fressin, Francois; Torres, Guillermo; Desert, Jean-Michel; Charbonneau, David; Batalha, Natalie M.; Fortney, Jonathan J.; Rowe, Jason F.; Allen, Christopher; Borucki, William J.; Brown, Timothy M.; Bryson, Stephen T.; Ciardi, David R.; Cochran, William D.; Deming, Drake; Dunham, Edward W.; Fabrycky, Daniel C.; Gautier, Thomas N., III; Gilliland, Ronald L.; Henze, Christopher E.; Holman, Matthew J.; Howell, Steve B.; Jenkins, Jon M.; Kinemuchi, Karen; Knutson, Heather; Koch, David G.; Latham, David W.; Lissauer, Jack J.; Marcy, Geoffrey W.; Ragozzine, Darin; Sasselov, Dimitar D.; Still, Martin; Tenenbaum, Peter; Uddin, Kamal (2011-11)

The Kepler mission has recently announced the discovery of Kepler-10 b, the smallest exoplanet discovered to date and the first rocky planet found by the spacecraft. A second, 45 day period transit-like signal present in ...

Kepler-14B: A Massive Hot Jupiter Transiting An F Star in A Close Visual Binary

Buchhave, Lars A.; Latham, David W.; Carter, Joshua A.; Desert, Jean-Michel; Torres, Guillermo; Adams, Elisabeth R.; Bryson, Stephen T.; Charbonneau, David B.; Ciardi, David R.; Kulesa, Craig; Dupree, Andrea K.; Fischer, Debra A.; Fressin, Francois; Gautier, Thomas N., III; Gilliland, Ronald L.; Howell, Steve B.; Isaacson, Howard; Jenkins, Jon M.; Marcy, Geoffrey W.; McCarthy, Donald W.; Rowe, Jason F.; Batalha, Natalie M.; Borucki, William J.; Brown, Timothy M.; Caldwell, Douglas A.; Christiansen, Jessie L.; Cochran, William D.; Deming, Drake; Dunham, Edward W.; Everett, Mark; Ford, Eric B.; Fortney, Jonathan J.; Geary, John C.; Girouard, Forrest R.; Haas, Michael R.; Holman, Matthew J.; Horch, Elliott; Klaus, Todd C.; Knutson, Heather A.; Koch, David G.; Kolodziejczak, Jeffrey; Lissauer, Jack J.; Machalek, Pavel; Mullally, Fergal; Still, Martin D.; Quinn, Samuel N.; Seager, Sara; Thompson, Susan E.; Van Cleve, Jeffrey (2011-11)

We present the discovery of a hot Jupiter transiting an F star in a close visual (0 ''.3 sky projected angular separation) binary system. The dilution of the host star's light by the nearly equal magnitude stellar companion ...