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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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News23rd Jan 2015: System Maintenance work @ Sat. 31 Jan. 2015Due to system maintenance work, starting at 00:01am (Aarhus time) and lasting until about 2pm (Aarhus time), the KASOC server kasoc.phys.au.dk will not be available during this time. 8th Jan 2015: K2 Campaign 1 data availableData from K2 Campaign 1 is now available for download in the "Data Search" facility and will shortly be available as pre-zipped bundles as well under "Bundles". 25th Nov 2014: CoRoT3/KASC7 presentations availablePresentations, videos and photos from this summers CoRoT3/KASC7 conference in Toulouse are now (finally) available. You can find them here. Kepler News30th Jan 2015: NASA Supercomputer Assists the Hunt for ExomoonsArtist's impression of a hypothetical Earth-like moon around a Saturn-like exoplanet.
A team of 21st-century explorers working for the Hunt for Exomoons with Kepler (HEK) project, based at Harvard University, are searching for exomoons using data from NASA’s Kepler mission and the Pleiades supercomputer at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) facility at NASA’s Ames Research Center.
The discovery of exomoons—moons situated beyond our own solar system—would add to the growing list of celestial objects detected by the Kepler telescope that could potentially harbor life in some form.
In the quest to find the first exomoon, HEK astronomers led by David Kipping at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have devised a unique, systematic computational approach that requires 5.2 million processor hours on Pleiades. Using their in-house LUNA light curve modeling algorithm and a massively parallel sampling algorithm called MultiNest, the project team simulates billions of possible star-planet-moon configurations and compares the results to the actual Kepler data to look for a good match. So far, the team has surveyed 56 of about 400 identified Kepler planet candidates that could have a detectable exomoon.
Surveying the remaining 340 planet candidates would require about 50,000 hours of processing time per object and would take nearly a decade to complete on smaller computers. Utilizing NASA’s powerful Pleiades system—which performs over 3 quadrillion calculations per second—will speed up this computationally expensive process, reducing the processing time to 30,000 hours per object. Over the next two years, the team will survey the remaining candidates for exomoons by performing photo-dynamical analysis of the public data from Kepler, consuming about 10 million processor hours on Pleiades. Their results will be used to determine the occurrence rate of Earth-like moons.
For more information about the HEK Project, visit: http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/HEK/index.html
For more information about NASA’s Kepler Mission, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/main/ 28th Jan 2015: Astronomers Discover Ancient System with Five Small PlanetsAstronomers using data from NASA's Kepler mission have discovered a system of five small planets dating back to when the Milky Way Galaxy was a youthful two billion years old. 21st Jan 2015: Astronomers Discover First Multiple-Planet System From K2Using publicly available data, astronomers may have confirmed K2's first discovery of star with more than one planet. |
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