Kepler Latest News

• 10/3/13 - The Kepler Objects of Interest (KOI) table, the confirmed planets tables, and the condition flags have all been updated again. All the "Not Dispositioned" flags have now been reassigned.

• 9/13/13 - The cdpp_quarter16 ASCII file listing targets observed in quarter 16 was added to the ftp area.

• 9/10/13 - The Kepler Objects of Interest (KOI) table, the confirmed planets tables, and the condition flags have all been updated. Most of the more than 300 added KOIs are classified as "False Positives", and only 25 are still listed as "Not Dispositioned".

• 8/7/13 - The project has updated the dispositions in the Kepler KOI table. All but 124 of the "Not Dispositioned" targets are now categorized as planetary candidates or false positives. The Condition Flag has also been updated accordingly.

• 8/5/13 - Data Release Notes 22 (pdf) describing the release of Quarter 16 data is now available.

• 7/28/13 - Status of Quarter 16, Quarter 12 and RedGiant data - All work completed for online data. Tarfiles and wget scripts have been created or updated.

  The remaining Q12 data became public July 22. Quarter 16 data was received from the project and ingest began earlier this week. Some targets were added to the Red Giant list. The table below lists the progress for various means of deliverying products.

  Quarter / Data Type	Lightcurves online	Target Pixel Files online	Public Tarfiles created	Wget scripts created
  Q12 newly released data	Completed 7/23/13	Completed 7/23/13	Completed 7/24/13	Completed 7/28/13
  Q16 data	Completed 7/24/13	Completed 7/24/13	Completed 7/27/13	Completed 7/28/13
  Red Giant	Not applicable	Not applicable	Completed 7/26/13	Completed 7/28/13

• 7/1/13 - The KOI tarfiles and wget scripts have been updated. Several KOIs were inadvertently excluded in the previous versions.

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

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..