The Kepler Guest Observer Program

Details The Kepler Guest Observer Program The Kepler Guest Observer Program

Jan 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010aas...21542012f&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #215, #420.12; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 42, p.285

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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NASA's planet-finding mission Kepler was successfully launched on 6 March 2009. Kepler's unique operational strategy provides precision, wide-band, optical photometric time-series at 1-min and 30-min cadences, continuously over a long timeline. The primary mission observes on order 105 dwarf stars over a 3.5 yr nominal lifetime for exoplanet transit detection. 3,025 sources are reserved for a Guest Observer program, administered on annual cycles. The community is invited to propose experiments to the Kepler Guest Observer program that produce compelling science unrelated to the primary exoplanet mission. Successful peer-reviewed proposals will be funded through a NASA grant. Potential areas of investigation include, but are not limited to: asteroseismology, stellar sizes and masses through eclipse timing in binaries, rotation periods, stellar activity cycles, flare stars, mass accretion, mass loss, stellar pulsations, active galactic nuclei and multi-wavelength correlative investigations. Here we summarize the Guest Observer program and the unique opportunities provided to astrophysicists. Kepler was selected as the 10th mission of the Discovery Program. Funding for this mission is provided by NASA's Science Mission Directorate.

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