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Kepler Latest News

  • 6/18/13 - The Eclipsing Binary Catalog from Villanova has been updated. Roughly 300 systems have been removed, mostly due to being false positives.

  • 6/17/13 - The cdpp_quarterN ASCII files listing targets observed in quarter N (where N = 0 to 15) have been updated to include CDPP values from Data Releases 20 and 21.

  • 6/10/13 - The Kepler Objects of Interest (KOI) table and condition flags have been updated. Many of the recently added KOIs are now designated as "PLANET CANDIDATES" rather than "NOT DISPOSITIONED".

    New tarfiles have been created that include the new KOI's. See http://archive.stsci.edu/pub/kepler/lightcurves/tarfiles/KOI/

  • 6/05/13 - A new version of the Data Characteristics Handbook is now available.

  • 6/03/13 - The Kepler Objects of Interest (KOI) table has been updated with 1,924 new objects added. For these new objects 1,923 have not yet been assigned a disposition and one has been set to "CONFIRMED" by NExScI. The Kepler Condition Flag was updated accordingly.

  • 5/10/13 - Data Release Notes 21 (pdf) which describes the reprocessing of data from Quarters 0-14 is now available.
    These data release notes supplement the earlier release notes for these quarters. Please refer to the previous release notes to understand specific events that occurred during each quarter and DRN 21 to understand the reason for the reprocessing and how it affected the data.
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  • 5/6/13 - The table below tracks the ingest status for data release 21 reprocessed data. For more information see the item below. As a reminder users should avoid mixing files with old and new time stamps. Tarfiles can be found at http://archive.stsci.edu/pub/kepler/lightcurves/tarfiles/.

    Status by Quarter:

    Quarter Ingest for retrievals from the search page Previews and available via wget scripts Public Tarfiles KOI, Eclipsing Binaries, Red Giant tarfiles
    Q0 Complete 5/6/13 Complete 5/6/13 Complete 5/6/13 Complete 5/16/13
    Q1 Complete 5/7/13 Complete 5/7/13 Complete 5/8/13 Complete 5/16/13
    Q2 Complete 5/7/13 Complete 5/7/13 Recreated 5/15/13 Complete 5/16/13
    Q3 Complete 5/9/13 Complete 5/14/13 Complete 5/15/13 Complete 5/16/13
    Q4 Complete 5/10/13 Complete 5/15/13 Complete 5/16/13 Complete 5/16/13
    Q5 Complete 5/11/13 Complete 5/15/13 Complete 5/16/13 Complete 5/16/13
    Q6 Complete 5/13/13 Complete 5/16/13 Complete 5/17/13 Complete 5/17/13
    Q7 Complete 5/16/13 Complete 5/17/13 Complete 5/17/13 Complete 5/17/13
    Q8 Complete 5/18/13 Complete 5/19/13 Complete 5/21/13 Complete 5/21/13
    Q9 Complete 5/19/13 Complete 5/20/13 Complete 5/22/13 Complete 5/22/13
    Q10 Completed 5/22/13 Completed 5/22/13 Completed 5/22/13 Completed 5/22/13
    Q11 Complete 5/22/13 Complete 5/22/13 Complete 5/28/13 Complete 5/28/13
    Q12 Complete 5/24/13 Complete 5/23/13 Complete 5/29/13 Complete 5/29/13
    Q13 Complete 5/25/13 Complete 5/23/13 Complete 5/29/13 Complete 5/29/13
    Q14 Complete 5/27/13 Complete 5/28/13 Complete 5/29/13 Complete 5/29/13
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  • 5/6/13 - All Kepler Q0-Q14 light curve files, co-trending basis vectors (CBVs), and full-frame images (FFIs) are being updated in early May. The reason for this processing is to update the PDC light curves and to fix an error in the barycentric times.
    This new processing uses the same calibrated pixels and simple aperture photometry (SAP) as the previous MAST products – only the PDC light curves, associated CBVs, and Barycentric times are being changed. For the long-cadence data, the original PDC MAP light curves will be replaced with updated results that use a band-split MAP algorithm. For the short-cadence data, PDC MAP light curves will be made available for the first time (see DRN #21).

    Times will now be reported in barycentric dynamical time (TDB), introducing a ~66 second offset relative to past data releases (see DRN #19, 21). Users should avoid mixing files with old and new time stamps. The times have been updated in the light curve files if the FILEVER keyword is 5.0 (or greater) and in FFI files if the Data Release keyword is greater than or equal to 21. Unfortunately, the Q0-Q14 target pixel and background files will not be updated at this time (see DRN #21). Since all Q15 data products are being reported in TDB, the Q15 target pixel and background files will be in a different time system than the Q0-Q14 data.

    Users of the Q0-Q14 target pixel files can convert their barycentric times to TDB by either using the times from the corresponding light curve file, or by utilizing the PyKe tools (keptimefix will be available soon at http://keplergo.arc.nasa.gov/PyKE.shtml).

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  • 5/2/13 - Data Release Notes 20 (pdf) describing the release of Quarter 15 data is now available.

  • 4/1/13 - The Kepler Confirmed Exoplanets table has been updated.
    The new table contains information provided by NExScI from the current Kepler Objects Of Interest (KOI) table with added entries for published non-KOI exoplanets. Links have also been added to display the available observations for each exoplanet, as well as a link to the Simbad page for the particular exoplanet.
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Quick Links

  • Kepler Data Search - search for and retrieve Kepler Data.

  • Kepler Target Search - find KIC targets on the Kepler CCDs with additional magnitudes and colors, and find non-KIC targets from additional sources.

  • Kepler Objects of Interest (KOI) Catalog - Lists Kepler "targets of interest" and identifies potential planets, confirmed planets, and false positives.

  • Kepler Eclipsing Binary Catalog - This tables, compiled by the team at Villanova, lists the known eclipsing binaries observed by Kepler.

  • General Search Information - Information on search syntax.

  • Kepler Public Light Curves and Target Pixel Files - Information on quick access to the public lightcurves and target pixel files..


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