David Koch

NASA Ames Research Center

Poster Title: Potential Additional Science From The Kepler Data Base

Abstract: The Kepler Mission will launch in 2007 and monitor the brightnesses of 100,000+ stars for four to six years. The mission will have a photometric precision of 20 ppm on a $V=12$ star integrating for 6.5 hours. The time resolution is 15 min for all stars and 1 min for up to 225 at any given time. In addition, the community may propose to monitor up to 3000 additional objects of any nature that are in the Kepler field of view located in the Cygnus region, such, as variable stars or active galactic nuclei. The list of additional objects may be modified as often as every three months. The contact person for the Participating Scientist and Data Analysis Programs is Yoji Kondo kondo@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov

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