Context. The Kepler spacecraft is providing time series of photometric data with micromagnitude
precision for hundreds of AF type stars.Aims. We present a first general characterization …

The New Horizons instrument named Ralph is a visible/near infrared multi-spectral imager
and a short wavelength infrared spectral imager. It is one of the core instruments on New …

The Kepler mission was designed to determine the frequency of Earth-sized planets in and
near the habitable zone of Sun-like stars. The habitable zone is the region where planetary …

The Spitzer Space Telescope, NASA's Great Observatory for infrared astronomy, was launched
2003 August 25 and is returning excellent scientific data from its Earth-trailing solar orbit. …

The Infrared Spectrograph (IRS) is one of three science instruments on the Spitzer Space
Telescope. The IRS comprises four separate spectrograph modules covering the wavelength …

We report the distribution of planets as a function of planet radius, orbital period, and stellar
effective temperature for orbital periods less than 50 days around solar-type (GK) stars. …

On 2011 February 1 the Kepler mission released data for 156,453 stars observed from the
beginning of the science observations on 2009 May 2 through September 16. There are 1235 …

New transiting planet candidates are identified in 16 months (2009 May–2010 September) of
data from the Kepler spacecraft. Nearly 5000 periodic transit-like signals are vetted against …

The Kepler Mission, launched on 2009 March 6, was designed with the explicit capability to
detect Earth-size planets in the habitable zone of solar-like stars using the transit photometry …

With the unprecedented photometric precision of the Kepler spacecraft, significant systematic
and stochastic errors on transit signal levels are observable in the Kepler photometric data. …