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Kepler Space Telescope Discovers Five Exoplanets
"NASA's Kepler space telescope, designed to find Earth-size planets in the habitable zone of sun-like stars, has discovered its first five new exoplanets, or planets beyond our solar system.
Kepler's high sensitivity to both small and large planets enabled the discovery of the exoplanets, named Kepler 4b, 5b, 6b, 7b and 8b. The discoveries were announced Monday, Jan. 4, by members of the Kepler science team during a news briefing at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Washington."
Initial (long) list of Kepler publications below:
- Not So Black? The Statistics of Albedo and Energy Recirculation on Hot Exoplanets, astro-ph
- Asteroseismic Investigation of Known Planet Hosts in the Kepler Field, astro-ph
- Kepler Asteroseismology Program: Introduction and First Results, astro-ph
- Kepler-7b: A Transiting Planet with Unusually Low Density, astro-ph
- Instrument Performance in Kepler's First Months, astro-ph
- Solar-like oscillations in low-luminosity red giants: first results from Kepler, astro-ph
- Initial Characteristics of Kepler Long Cadence Data For Detecting Transiting Planets, astro-ph
- Overview of the Kepler Science Processing Pipeline, astro-ph
- Kepler Mission Design, Realized Photometric Performance, and Early Science, astro-ph
- Preliminary Astrometric Results from Kepler, astro-ph
- The Kepler Pixel Response Function, astro-ph
- A Transiting Hot Jupiter Orbiting a Metal-Rich Star, astro-ph
- Selection, Prioritization, and Characteristics of Kepler Target Stars, astro-ph
- Imaging Young Planets From Ground and Space, astro-ph
- The Kepler Follow-up Observation Program, astro-ph
- Discovery of a red giant with solar-like oscillations in an eclipsing binary system from Kepler space-based photometry, astro-ph
- The Discovery of Ellipsoidal Variations in the Kepler Light Curve of HAT-P-7, astro-ph
- Photometric Variability in Kepler Target Stars: The Sun Among Stars -- A First Look, astro-ph
- Discovery and Rossiter-McLaughlin Effect of Exoplanet Kepler-8b, astro-ph
- First Kepler results on RR Lyrae stars, astro-ph
- Kepler Science Operations, astro-ph
- Near-infrared integral-field spectra of the planet/brown dwarf companion AB Pic b, astro-ph
- Tight constraints on the existence of additional planets around HD 189733, astro-ph
- The asteroseismic potential of Kepler: first results for solar-type stars, astro-ph
- Automated classification of variable stars in the asteroseismology program of the Kepler space mission, astro-ph
Finally it has begun!
The team stressed that this is the low-hanging fruit from an initial 30-day window of data, hence the short periods. Now the data pipeline is polished and ready for the rest of the data in storage and the data that's being collected now. Smaller planets and longer orbits naturally will follow.