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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

26th Feb 2014: Loss of module 7: K2FOV tool updated

As you may have heard, the Kepler/K2 spacecraft has lost another CCD module (module 7) in a similar way to the loss of module 3 earlier in the mission. Read more here.
The K2FOV tool has been updated to take the loss of module 7 into account and everyone is encouraged to update any target lists using the new version of the tool.

24th Feb 2014: Q17 is available for download.

Both the "FITS" and "ASCII" formats of Q17 (Data Release 23), together with the TPD files (also as bundles) are available for download. Please consult the associated release notes, which are available in the Information - Documentation section.

15th Nov 2013: Q12 updated.

Additional stars are included in the latest Q12 (Data Release 21) dataset. The data were processed with PDC msMAP. Please read the release notes for DR 21: http://kasoc.phys.au.dk/docs/release_notes/Data_Release_Notes_21_20130508.pdf.

Kepler News

6th Mar 2014: Kepler Marks Five Years in Space

On March 6, 2009, NASA's Kepler space telescope rocketed off into the darkness in search of potentially habitable worlds. Five years later we know now most stars have planets, Earth-size planets are common, and planets quite unlike those in our solar system exist.
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26th Feb 2014: NASA's Kepler Mission Announces a Planet Bonanza, 715 New Worlds

NASA's Kepler mission announced Wednesday the discovery of 715 new planets. These newly-verified worlds orbit 305 stars, revealing multiple-planet systems much like our own solar system.
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26th Feb 2014: NASA's Kepler Mission Announces a Planet Bonanza, 715 New Worlds

NASA's Kepler mission announced Wednesday the discovery of 715 new planets. These newly-verified worlds orbit 305 stars, revealing multiple-planet systems much like our own solar system.
Read more

Recently published scientific publications

  • S. Mathur: Magnetic activity of F stars observed by Kepler
    Updated: Wed 5th March 2014 21:44.
  • Alexandra Fogtmann-Schulz: Accurate parameters of the oldest known rocky-exoplanet hosting system: Kepler-10 revisited
    Updated: Tue 25th February 2014 11:19.
  • O. Benomar: Asteroseismology of evolved stars with Kepler: a new way to constrain stellar interiors using mode inertias
    Updated: Fri 24th January 2014 08:55.
  • W. J. Chaplin: Asteroseismic fundamental properties of solar-type stars observed by the NASA Kepler Mission
    Updated: Thu 23rd January 2014 15:06.
  • Dennis Stello: Classifying stellar populations among 13 000 red giants observed by Kepler
    Updated: Mon 20th January 2014 13:22.
  • Tao. Wu: New asteroseismic scaling relations based on Hayashi track relation applied to red-giant branch stars in NGC 6791 and NGC 6819
    Updated: Tue 7th January 2014 03:24.
  • R. Samadi: Stellar granulation as seen in disk-integrated intensity. II. Theoretical scaling relations compared with observations
    Updated: Mon 6th January 2014 12:05.

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