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Technical Papers

 

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Batalha, N. M., Jenkins, J., Basri, G. S., Borucki, W. J., and Koch, D. G., Stellar Variability and Its Implications for Photometric Planet Detection with Kepler, Proc 1st Eddington workshop "Stellar Structure and Habitable planet Finding", Cordoba, 11-15 June 2001 (ESA SP-485, Nov 2001, F. Favata, I. W. Roxburgh & D. Galadi eds)

Borucki, W. J., Dunham,E. W.,Koch, D. G.,Cochran, W. D., Rose, J. A., Cullers, K., Granados, A., and Jenkins, J. M., FRESIP: A Mission to Determine the Character and Frequency of Extra-Solar Planets Around Solar-Like Stars, Astrophysics & Space Science, 241, 111-134,(1996) (size=99 kB)

Borucki, W. J., Koch, D. G., Dunham, E. W., and Jenkins, J. M.,The Kepler Mission: A Mission To Determine The Frequency Of Inner Planets Near The Habitable Zone Of A Wide Range Of Stars Planets Beyond The Solar System and The Next Generation of Space Missions, ASP Conf Ser ,119, 153-173 (1997), ed. David Solderblom (size=297 kB)

Borucki, William J., Caldwell, Douglas, Koch, David G., Webster, Larry D., Jenkins, Jon M., Ninkov, Zoran, and Showen, Robert, The Vulcan Photometer: A Dedicated Photometer For Extrasolar Planet Searches, PASP, 113, 439-451 (2001) (size=1.1MB)

Borucki, William J.; Koch, David; Basri, Gibor; Brown, Timothy; Caldwell, Douglas; Devore, Edna; Dunham, Edward; Gautier, Thomas; Geary, John; Gilliland, Ronald; Gould, Alan; Howell, Steve; Jenkins, Jon Kepler Mission: a mission to find Earth-size planets in the habitable zone, Proceedings of the Conference on Towards Other Earths: DARWIN/TPF and the Search for Extrasolar Terrestrial Planets, 22-25 April 2003, Heidelberg, Germany. Edited by M. Fridlund, T. Henning, compiled by H. Lacoste. ESA SP-539, Noordwijk, Netherlands: ESA Publications Division, 2003, p. 69

Duren, R., Dragon, K., Gunter, S., Gautier, N., Bachtell, E., Peters, D., Harvey, A., Enos, A., Koch, D., Borucki, B., Sobeck, C., Mayer, D., Jenkins, J., and Thompson, R., Systems Engineering for the Kepler Mission: A Search for Terrestrial Planets SPIE Conf 5497, Modeling and System Engineering for Astronomy, Glasgow, Scotland, 2004 (size=888kB)

Gautier. T. N. and Gilliland, R., Expected effects of hot CCD pixels on detection of transits of
extra-solar planets with the Kepler Mission, SPIE Conf 5487, Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Space Telescopes, Glasgow, Scotland, 2004 (size=208kB)

Jenkins et al., A Matched Filter Approach For Discovering Planetary Transits In Eclipsing Binary Systems: Application To CM Draconis. Icarus 119, 244 (1996)

Jenkins, Jon M., Borucki, William J., Dunham, Edward W. and McDonald, John S., High Precision Photometry with Back-Illuminated CCDs, Planets Beyond the Solar System and the Next Generation of Space Missions, ASP Conf Ser ,119, 227-280 (1997) ed. David Solderblom (size=66 kB)

Jenkins, Jon M., Fred Witteborn, David G. Koch, Edward Dunham, William J. Borucki, Todd F. Updike, Mark A. Skinner, and Steve P. Jordan, Processing CCD images to detect transits of Earth-sized planets: Maximizing sensitivity while achieving reasonable downlink requirements, SPIE Conference 4013, UV, Optical and IR Space Telescopes and Instruments, Munich, Germany, March 2000 (size=504kB)

Jenkins, J. M., Peters, D. J., and murphy, D. W., An efficient end-to-end model for the Kepler Photometer, SPIE Conf 5497, Modeling and System Engineering for Astronomy, Glasgow, Scotland, 2004 (size=828kB)

Koch, David and Borucki, William, A Search For Earth-Sized Planets In Habitable Zones Using Photometry, First International Conf on Circumstellar Habitable Zones, Travis House Pub., 229 (1996) (size=50kB)

Koch, D., Borucki, W., Cullers, K., Dunham,E., Webster,L., Miers ,T, and Reitsema,H., System Design Of A Mission To Detect Earth-Sized Planets In The Inner Orbits Of Solar-Like Stars JGR-Planets 101, 9297-9302 (1996) (size=66 kB)

Koch, David, Borucki,William, Webster,Larry, Dunham,Edward, Jenkins,Jon, Marriott, John and Reitsema,Harold, Kepler: A Space Mission to Detect Earth-class Exoplanets, SPIE Conference 3356, Space Telescopes and Instruments V, 599-607, March 1998 (size=116 kB)

Koch, D. G., W. Borucki, E. Dunham, J. Jenkins, L. Webster, and F. Witteborn, CCD photometry tests for a mission to detect Earth-size planets in the extended solar neighborhood, SPIE Conference 4013, UV, Optical and IR Space Telescopes and Instruments, Munich, Germany, March 2000 (Size=288kB)

Koch David, A Model for Estimating the Number of Stars for which Terrestrial Planets Can Be Detected Using Transits, Bioastronomy 2002, Life Among the Stars IAU Symp 213 , R. P. Norris and F. H. Stootman eds., Great Barrier Reef Aust, July 2002, Astronomical Soc. Pac. San Francisco, 2004, ISBN 1583811710 (size=124kB)

Koch, D., Borucki, W., Dunham, E., Geary, J., Gilliland, R.,, Jenkins, J., Latham, D., Bachtell, E., Berry, D., Deininger, W., Duren, R., Gautier, T. N., Gillis, L., Mayer, D., Miller, C., Shafer, D., Sobeck, C., Stewart, C., and Weiss, M., Overview and status of the Kepler Mission, SPIE Conf 5487, Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Space Telescopes, Glasgow, Scotland, 2004 (size=5.8MB)

Lissauer, Jack J. How Common are habitable planets?, Nature, 402, C11-C24, 2 Dec 1999

Philbrick, R., Modeling the Impact of Pre-Flushing on CTE in Proton Irradiated CCD-based Detectors, IEEE Trans on Nucl Sci, 49, No. 2, 559-567, April 2002

Robinson, L. B, M. Z. Wei, W. J. Borucki, E.W. Dunham, C. H. Ford, and A. F. Granados. Pub Astron Soc Pac 107, 1094-1098 (1995)

Taylor, Brian W., Edward W. Dunham, Adam J. Gould, David J. Osip, James L. Elliot, LOIS - Lowell Observatory Instrumentation System: A modular control system for astronomical instrumentation, SPIE Conference 4009, AdvancedTelescope and Instrumentation Control Software, Munich, Germany, March 2000 (Size=160kB)

 


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