INITIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF <i>KEPLER</i> LONG CADENCE DATA FOR DETECTING TRANSITING PLANETS
INITIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF <i>KEPLER</i> LONG CADENCE DATA FOR DETECTING TRANSITING PLANETS
The Kepler Mission seeks to detect Earth-size planets transiting solar-like stars in its ∼115 deg2 field of view over the course of its 3.5 year primary mission by monitoring the brightness of each of ∼156,000 Long Cadence stellar targets with a time resolution of 29.4 minutes. We discuss the photometric …