SETI Institute Lecture - Roundup at the Kepler Corral: the R

SETI Institute Lecture - Roundup at the Kepler Corral: the R

by Dr. Jeffrey Van Cleve, Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. The Kepler Mission www.kepler.arc.nasa.gov is designed to detect transits of Earth-size planets orbiting in the "habitable zone" (HZ) around main-sequence stars of apparent visual magnitude 9 through 14, of F through M spectral type, by means of differential photometry of ~100000 stars in the constellation Cygnus. Jeff will discuss the box in temperature-diameter space ("The Corral") that Kepler was designed to search, and show ...