Kepler Target Search Explanations
The Kepler Target Search interface
provides access to a 12.5 million row table
created by MAST by joining entries from the
Kepler Input catalog (KIC)
with the Kepler Characteristics table (CT)
and merging these with "associated" entries from
the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (IRT) project,
the USNOb catalog,
GALEX,
the Kepler Isaac Newton Telescope Survey (KIS),
the KPNO-Ames (UBV) survey, and the most recent Sloan
survey (SDSS/DR9).
The search interface allows users to find targets within the
Kepler field of view (FOV) and allows searches on
magnitudes, colors, and other parameters for both KIC
and associated non-KIC targets.
This is the recommended interface for potential guest
observers to locate possible targets for observation.
GO proposers however
should check on the target's position by either (or both)
looking to one of our posted FFI images
and seeing if it is on a chip, and (2) confirming this
with the GO office.
The links below provide more detailed information
on the creation and contents of this database.
This page describes the magnitudes added from the various catalogs
as well as results from comparing the various magnitudes and colors
as a function of magnitude.
The procedure for associating a catalog object to a KIC object
is described here. Issues with false identifications are also
discussed.
After associating catalog entries with KIC entries, a second matching
process was performed to identify additional non-KIC targets which may be
within the Kepler FOV. This procedure resulted in the addition of roughly
8 million new targets and is described here.