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The Kepler Asteroseismic Science Operations Center provides asteroseismological data from the NASA Kepler mission to astronomers who are members of the Kepler Asteroseismic Science Consortium (KASC).

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News

20th Aug 2019: TASC5/KASC12 materials available

All the material from this summers TASC5/KASC12 conference in Boston have now been made available:
http://kasoc.phys.au.dk/info_conference_kasc12.php

12th Aug 2019: Data download temporaily put on hold

Due to malicious activity on our networks, the download of data from KASOC is currently been disabled. We are working hard on restoring the functionality and apologize for any inconvenience!
UPDATE (13/8): Everything is now back to normal, and data download is working.

31st Oct 2018: Goodbye Kepler

Goodbye Kepler. You will be missed!
We can all take solace in the fact that the amazing data you have provided us will keep up busy, making new discoveries, for years to come.
Now, take a well-deserved rest - you have earned it!

Kepler & K2 News

24th Oct 2019: MAST creates Kepler and K2 documentation pages

The Milkulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST) has created two pages dedicated to organizing Kepler and K2 mission documents.

Documents are organized into groups, listing the title of each document that links to the PDF, a brief description of its content/purpose, and citation information.

Users are likely to find …

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24th Oct 2019: Open source release of Kepler/K2 Cadence Events (K2CE) tool

A new tool for working with short- and long-cadence lightcurves has been released to the public under the NASA Open Source License, and made available for download via the NASA GitHub repository at https://github.com/nasa/K2CE.

Kepler/K2 Cadence Events (K2CE) is a Python data visualization and manipulation …

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22nd Oct 2019: K2 Campaigns 6 and 7 reprocessed

A year ago we announced that we were undertaking an effort to reprocess campaigns 0–14 using the same version of the Kepler/K2 pipeline used for C15 and subsequent campaigns. This version introduced several new features and improvements, such as more sophisticated pixel calibration, better identification of spacecraft pointing …

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Recently published scientific publications

  • Yvonne Elsworth: Insights from the APOKASC Determination of the Evolutionary State of Red-Giant Stars by consolidation of different methods
    Updated: Thu 14th November 2019 16:38.
  • Earl P. Bellinger: Testing stellar evolution with asteroseismic inversions of a main sequence star harboring a small convective core
    Updated: Tue 12th November 2019 01:43.
  • L. Bugnet: FliPer: A global measure of power density to estimate surface gravities of Solar-like stars
    Updated: Sat 12th October 2019 21:40.
  • Kuldeep Verma: Helium settling in F stars: constraining turbulent mixing using observed helium glitch signature
    Updated: Tue 8th October 2019 16:44.
  • F. Pérez Hernández: Influence of magnetic activity on the determination of stellar parameters through asteroseismology
    Updated: Fri 27th September 2019 19:43.
  • Rafael A. García: Asteroseismology of solar-type stars
    Updated: Fri 27th September 2019 19:42.
  • M. Yildiz: Fundamental properties of Kepler and CoRoT targets: IV. Masses and radii from frequencies of minimum $\Delta \nu$ and their implications
    Updated: Tue 17th September 2019 13:56.

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