Kepler Planet-Detection Mission: Introduction and First Results

J. Borucki, William; Koch, David; Basri, Gibor; Batalha, Natalie; Brown, Timothy; Caldwell, Douglas; Caldwell, John; Christensen-Dalsgaard, Jørgen; D. Cochran, William; DeVore, Edna; W. Dunham, Edward; K. Dupree, Andrea; N. Gautier, Thomas; C. Geary, John; Gilliland, Ronald; Gould, Alan; B. Howell, Steve; M. Jenkins, Jon; Kondo, Yoji; W. Latham, David; W. Marcy, Geoffrey; Meibom, Søren; Kjeldsen, Hans; J. Lissauer, Jack; G. Monet, David; Morrison, David; Sasselov, Dimitar; Tarter, Jill; Boss, Alan; Brownlee, Don; Owen, Toby; Buzasi, Derek; Charbonneau, David; Doyle, Laurance; Fortney, Jonathan; B. Ford, Eric; J. Holman, Matthew; Seager, Sara; H. Steffen, Jason; F. Welsh, William; Rowe, Jason; Anderson, Howard; Buchhave, Lars; Ciardi, David; Walkowicz, Lucianne; Sherry, William; Horch, Elliott; Isaacson, Howard; E. Everett, Mark; Fischer, Debra; Torres, Guillermo; Asher Johnson, John; Endl, Michael; MacQueen, Phillip; T. Bryson, Stephen; Dotson, Jessie; Haas, Michael; Kolodziejczak, Jeffrey; Van Cleve, Jeffrey; Chandrasekaran, Hema; D. Twicken, Joseph; V. Quintana, Elisa; D. Clarke, Bruce; Allen, Christopher; Li, Jie; Wu, Haley; Tenenbaum, Peter; Verner, Ekaterina; Bruhweiler, Frederick; Barnes, Jason; Prsa, Andrej

doi:10.1126/science.1185402

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Kepler Planet-Detection Mission: Introduction and First Results

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Authors:

William J. Borucki

David Koch

Gibor Basri

Abstract

Detecting Distant Planets More than 400 planets have been detected outside the solar system, most of which have masses similar to that of the gas giant planet, Jupiter. Borucki et al. (p. 977 , published online 7 January) summarize the planetary findings derived from the first six weeks of observati...

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