Kepler Mission DesignThe Kepler Mission is in the development phase with launch planned for 2007. The mission goal first off is to reliably detect a significant number of Earth-size planets in the habitable zone of solar-like stars. The mission design allows for exploring the diversity of planetary sizes, orbital periods, stellar spectral types, etc. In this paper we describe the technical approach taken for the mission design; describing the flight and ground system, the detection methodology, the photometer design and capabilities, and the way the data are taken and processed. (For Stellar Classification program. Finally the detection capability in terms of planet size and orbit are presented as a function of mission duration and stellar type.
Document ID
20050156195
Acquisition Source
Ames Research Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Koch, David (NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Borucki, William (NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Lissauer, J. (NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Mayer, David (NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Voss, Janice (NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Basri, Gibor (California Univ. Berkeley, CA, United States)
Gould, Alan (California Univ. Berkeley, CA, United States)
Brown, Timothy (High Altitude Observatory Boulder, CO, United States)
Cockran, William (Texas Univ. Austin, TX, United States)
Caldwell, Douglas (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Inst. Mountain View, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 23, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 2005
Subject Category
Astronomy
Meeting Information
Meeting: Aspen Winter Conference on Planet Formation and Detection