Kepler Eclipsing Binary Stars. I. Catalog and Principal Characterization of 1879 Eclipsing Binaries in the First Data Release

The Kepler space mission is devoted to finding Earth-size planets orbiting other stars in their habitable zones. Its large, 105 deg[superscript 2] field of view features over 156,000 stars that are observed continuously to detect and characterize planet transits. Yet, this high-precision instrument...

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Main Authors: Prsa, Andrej, Batalha, Natalie M., Slawson, Robert W., Doyle, Laurance R., Welsh, William F., Orosz, Jerome A., Seager, Sara, Rucker, Michael, Mjaseth, Kimberly, Engle, Scott G., Conroy, Kyle, Jenkins, Jon M., Caldwell, Douglas A., Koch, David, Borucki, William J.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: IOP Publishing 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/74152
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6892-6948