Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jan 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010aas...21542003m&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #215, #420.03; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 42, p.284
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
We describe our Cycle 1 Kepler Guest Observer program "A Calibration Study of Variable Stars in the Kepler Field". We will develop enhanced data products that will support and extend the broad science goals of the Kepler mission. Our primary objective is to produce astronomical-grade light curves for individual stars or ensembles of stars that will complement the detrended light curves produced by the Kepler data pipeline. Relying upon the planned calibration efforts of the Kepler Science Team, we will investigate the possibility of producing contiguous light curves which extend the planned current monthly time base differential light curves to at least a quarterly basis and possibly a time base covering the entire 3.5 year lifetime of the Kepler primary mission. This extended time base capability will support Kepler mission efforts to characterize the nature of the host stars of detected planetary candidates; in particular we will be able to gain better insight to the nature of brightness fluctuations over days to months which might be caused by chromospheric activity due to decades-long activity cycles of stars like the Sun. This calibration effort will place stars with detected transits in the context of the much larger sample of stars lacking transits. Our poster will show several Kepler Mission light curves of variable stars.
Holberg Jay
Howell Steve
Mighell Kenneth J.
Sherry William
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