The following Kepler search forms are currently available to users.
If you are planning to submit large search queries or data requests,
please see the Submitting Large Requests page.
Users interested in submitting requests from a local script or accessing
the Kepler catalogs via the Virtual Observatory Cone search service should see the
MAST Services page for more information.
You can also go directly to the Kepler data retrieval page
and enter either data set names or upload a file of data set names.
MAST is also storing the public light curve FITS files online for access
via http or ftp. They are stored in /pub/kepler/lightcurves in a directory structure
based on the Kepler ID number.
See the top level directory or go to
the page describing how to
download public light curves.
Kepler Target Search This form allows users to find targets on the Kepler CCDs by searching a 4.5 million row
table created by merging the KIC catalog with the Kepler Characteristics (CT) table. This would be the
form used by the potential guest observers to locate possible targets for observation.
See the Target Search
Help page for more information.
Kepler Enhanced Target Search This form is similiar to the target search form but allows searches on additional magnitudes,
colors, and non-KIC targets. The 10 million row
table was created by MAST staff by merging entries from the USNOb, IRT, and KIC and CT catalogs.
See the Enhanced Target Search
Help page for more information.
Kepler Input Catalog (KIC) This form allows access to the 13.2 million row, version 10, Kepler Input Catalog,
listing targets within and outside the Kepler Field of View. See the
KIC release notes.
A listing of the catalog fields, including a few added by MAST staff, is
available from the KIC parameter help
page.
Kepler Results Catalog
Kepler results are described in a series of 4 catalogs as listed below:
Released Planetary Candidates
and Candidate Host Stars
The list of Kepler targets that exhibit planet-like transits. Confirmed planets
also include bibcodes for published papers. A separate table
describing their host star stellar characteristics is also provided.
The current data are described and analyzed in Borucki et. al., 2011.
False Positives List
List of light curves suspected of showing planetary transit-like features, but which
further analysis proved otherwise.
The table contents and false positive identication method is discussed in
Borucki et. al., 2011.
Kepler Casjobs
A SQL-based GUI for searching the Kepler database tables.
Kepler/GALEX cross-match catalog
A standard MAST search interface (also available via Casjobs above)
for searching the Kepler/GALEX cross-match tables.
Ancillary Files
Available ancillary data files include the following:
Cotrending Basis Vectors (CBV) Files
An HTML table listing the currently available CBV files with links to downloading
the files via ftp or http, and documentation.
Focal Plane Characteristics
A table listing the currently available Pixel Response Function (PRF)
files with links to download the files and documentation.
Full Frame Image (FFI) Search
An interface for accessing and retrieving FFI and FFI Uncertainty images.
Files may also be downloaded via
anonymous ftp at /pub/kepler/ffi, or via the browser at
http://archive.stsci.edu/pub/kepler/ffi .
To display individual channels from any of the FFI images,
and overlay various catalogs,
see the FFI_Display page.
Spice Data Files (spacecraft ephemeris)
The latest Spice kernals may be downloaded via anonymous ftp at /pub/kepler/spice, or via the browser at http://archive.stsci.edu/pub/kepler/spice .
a gzipped pipe-delimited ASCII file containing the entire Kepler Input Catalog,
the Kepler Input Catalog/Characteristics table join (kic_ct) showing only KIC targets
known to be on (or very near) a detector for at least one season,
the Kepler Cross-match Catalogs stored in gzipped comma-delimited ASCII files, and
quarterly ASCII files listing selected KIC parameters for targets observed during each
quarter.
See the README files for more information.
Red Giant Data Release.
The Kepler Team announced the public data release of 14,048 red giants for scientific
exploitation by the community on Sept. 9th, 2011. All quarter 0 to quarter 8 light curves of these
targets are now public (about 50,000 files) and all future data collected
for these targets will be delivered to the archive without proprietary periods.
Kepler Target Lists -
The following are various lists of Kepler targets catagorized
by the Kepler project and made available to users.
Dropped Target List (DTL)
A list of the Kepler dropped targets with links to the Target Search
Results and the Data Search Results pages for each target.
(Dropped targets are those initially reserved by the project which were
subsequently made public before the end of the normal proprietary period.)
Published Target List (PTL)
The list of published targets for which data was made public.
Links to Target Search Results and the Data Search Results pages for each target
are included.
Search & Retrieval