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Kepler planet-detection mission: Introduction and first results

Borucki, William J., Koch, David, Basri, Gibor, Batalha, Natalie, Brown, Timothy, Caldwell, Douglas, Caldwell, John, Christensen-Dalsgaard, Jørgen +63 more·2010·Science

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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 observations with the Kepler mission whose objective is to search for and determine the frequency of Earth-like planets in the habitable zones of other stars. The results include the detection of five new exoplanets, which confirm the existence of planets with densities substantially lower than those predicted for gas giant planets.

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  • Recent surveys have demonstrated that m 5-10 M planets are exceedingly common around solar-type stars, and likely represent one of the dominant outcomes of the planet conglomeration process.

    “Recent photometric and spectroscopic surveys of planets around other stars (Borucki et al., 2010; Batalha et al., 2013), however, have conclusively demonstrated that m 5 10 M planets are exceedingly common around solar-type stars, and likely represent one of the dominant outcomes of the planet conglomeration process 20 .”

    From The planet nine hypothesis (2019) · cites this paper as Borucki et al., 2010

  • Jupiter-mass and Neptune-mass exoplanets have been found closer to their host than Mercury is to the Sun.

    “However, Jupiter-mass and Neptune-mass exoplanets have been found closer to their host than Mercury is to the Sun (Butler et al., 2006; Borucki et al., 2010), so planetary migration through the disk has been suggested to explain how these hot giant planets moved from their birth locations to their current locations (see below).”

    From The Astrobiology Primer v2.0 (2016) · cites this paper as Borucki et al., 2010

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Borucki, W. J., Koch, D., Basri, G., Batalha, N., Brown, T., Caldwell, D., Caldwell, J., Christensen-Dalsgaard, J., Cochran, W. D., DeVore, E., Dunham, E. W., Dupree, A. K., Gautier, T. N., Geary, J. C., Gilliland, R., Gould, A., Howell, S. B., Jenkins, J. M., Kondo, Y., Latham, D. W., Marcy, G. W., Meibom, S., Kjeldsen, H., Lissauer, J. J., Monet, D. G., Morrison, D., Sasselov, D., Tarter, J., Boss, A., Brownlee, D., Owen, T., Buzasi, D., Charbonneau, D., Doyle, L., Fortney, J., Ford, E. B., Holman, M. J., Seager, S., Steffen, J. H., Welsh, W. F., Rowe, J., Anderson, H., Buchhave, L., Ciardi, D., Walkowicz, L., Sherry, W., Horch, E., Isaacson, H., Everett, M. E., Fischer, D., Torres, G., Johnson, J. A., Endl, M., MacQueen, P., Bryson, S. T., Dotson, J., Haas, M., Kolodziejczak, J., Van Cleve, J., Chandrasekaran, H., Twicken, J. D., Quintana, E. V., Clarke, B. D., Allen, C., Li, J., Wu, H., Tenenbaum, P., Verner, E., Bruhweiler, F., Barnes, J., & Prsa, A.
Affiliations
  • Ames Research Center (US)
  • University of California, Berkeley (US)
  • San Jose State University (US)
  • Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network (US)
  • Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (US)
  • York University (CA)
  • Aarhus University (DK)
  • McDonald Observatory (US)
  • Lowell Observatory (US)
  • Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian (US)
  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA.
  • Space Telescope Science Institute (US)
  • Lawrence Hall of Science, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
  • National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Tucson, AZ 85719, USA.
  • Goddard Space Flight Center (US)
  • United States Naval Observatory (US)
  • Carnegie Institution for Science (US)
  • University of Washington (US)
  • University of Hawaii at Hilo (US)
  • Eureka Scientific (US)
  • University of California, Santa Cruz (US)
  • University of Florida (US)
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
  • Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US)
  • San Diego State University (US)
  • California Institute of Technology (US)
  • Southern Connecticut State University (US)
  • Planetary Science Institute (US)
  • Yale University (US)
  • NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA.
  • Marshall Space Flight Center (US)
  • SETI Institute, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
  • Orbital Sciences (United States) (US)
  • Catholic University of America (US)
  • University of Idaho (US)
  • Villanova University, Villanova, PA 19085, USA.
Corresponding author
Borucki, William J.
Venue
Science
Published
2010-02-19
Volume
327
Issue
5968
Pages
977-980
ISSN
  • 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
  • 1095-9203
OpenAlex
W2070508637
Cited by
4,035
References
13
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FWCI
87.04
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
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  • CaltechAUTHORS (California Institute of Technology) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Instrumentation › Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › History and Developments in Astronomy
Keywords
Kepler mission, exoplanet detection, Earth-sized planets, habitable zone, solar-type stars, transit photometry, GJ 436b, planet density, low-density planets, gas giant planets

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