First Photometric Performance Results of the Kepler Single String Focal Plane

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Dec 2006

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2007 AAS/AAPT Joint Meeting, American Astronomical Society Meeting 209, #210.11; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society,

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The Kepler Mission is designed to detect Earth-size and smaller exoplanets using space based transit photometry. An engineering model (EM) consisting of two flight-like CCDs and the associated control and data acquisition boards representing a portion of the flight focal plane has been built to qualify the flight design. In addition to all of the flight environmental qualification tests, this single-string EM has been photometrically tested using the Kepler Technology Demonstration facility (Koch et al, SPIE, 4013, 508-519, 2000), which includes a star field simulator and the ability to generate Earth-size transit signals in various stars. We present a description of the test methodology, the photometric performance test results and a comparison to the mission design requirements.

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