Manager   •   over 7 years ago

IDEA 4: Kepler Data

The Kepler mission produced light curves, and by extension, orbital parameters for thousands of exoplanets. University of Maryland astronomers also used Kepler to discover some supernovae, getting exquisite early light curves for these.
( See https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/kepler-beyond-planets-finding-exploding-stars )

Kepler exoplanet candidate data can be retrieved here: https://archive.stsci.edu/kepler/koi/search.php

Kepler Science Center has links to data, software tools, and explanatory documents:
https://keplerscience.arc.nasa.gov/

The python package LightKurve looks useful for both Kepler and TESS data:
https://docs.lightkurve.org/

There are some interesting visualizations out there of Kepler exoplanet data, e.g. http://www.asterank.com/exoplanets and https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap151205.html

What can you hack with Kepler data?

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