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.
- 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 |
- 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).
- 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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