Kepler: a space mission to detect earth-class exoplanets

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Aug 1998

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998spie.3356..599k&link_type=abstract

Proc. SPIE Vol. 3356, p. 599-607, Space Telescopes and Instruments V, Pierre Y. Bely; James B. Breckinridge; Eds.

Physics

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With the detection of giant extrasolar planets and the quest for life on Mars, there is heightened interset in finding earth-class planets, those that are less than ten earth masses and might be life supporting. A space-based photometer has the ability to detect the periodic transits of earth-class planets for a wide variety of spectral types of stars. From the data and known type of host star, the orbital semi-major axis, size and characteristic temperature of each planet can be calculated. The frequency of planet formation with respect to spectral type and occurrence for both singular and multiple-stellar systems can be determined. A description is presented of a one-meter aperture photometer with a twelve-degree field of view and a focal plane of 21 CCDs. The photometer woudl continuously and simultaneously monitor 160,000 stars of visual magnitude

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