The Kepler Follow-up Observation Program

Details The Kepler Follow-up Observation Program The Kepler Follow-up Observation Program

Jul 2007

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007aspc..366..219g&link_type=abstract

Transiting Extrapolar Planets Workshop ASP Conference Series, Vol. 366, Proceedings of the conference held 25-28 September, 2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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The Kepler mission will use a space based, 95-cm Schmidt telescope to survey 100,000 late type dwarf stars for transiting Earth-sized planets over a period of 4 years. Up to ˜ 2000 such planets might be detected along with a hundred or more transiting giant planets. About 1,000 false positive planet detections, due mainly to eclipsing binary stars, will also be found. A ground based follow-up program is planned to observe all of the planet candidates found by Kepler to weed out these false positives and produce a final catalog with a reliability greater than 95%.

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