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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

21st Aug 2018: TASC4/KASC11 Conference Material

The slides, posters and photos from the TASC4/KASC11 conference in Aarhus, Denmark has now been made available on KASOC and TASOC. If you have any other material, like good photos you took during the conference, feel free to e-mail them to us and we can include it on the page.

4th Jun 2018: K2FOV Tool updated

The K2FOV tool has been updated to the newest version (8.0.0), which includes the coordinates for campaign 20.

23rd Apr 2018: Scheduled Downtime: 25th April

On Wednesday 25th April, we will be doing some scheduled maintenance of our servers, so KASOC will be unavailable most of the day. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Kepler & K2 News

20th Sep 2018: K2 Campaign 20 science program now available

The science program and target lists for K2 Campaign 20 (Oct 15, 2018 - Jan 5, 2019) have now been posted on the approved targets & programs page.

The target list includes 14,789 standard long cadence and 210 standard short cadence targets located towards the constellation of Taurus. The Campaign partially …

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17th Sep 2018: Submit your abstract to the Kepler/K2 Special Session at the Winter AAS

The Kepler/K2 Mission is convening a special session at the 233rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), which is being held in Seattle in January.

The session is titled "Kepler and K2's 500,000 high-precision lightcurves: prospects for future discoveries" and will look forward to the future discoveries …

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11th Sep 2018: K2 Campaign 17 data release notes available

The data release notes for K2 Campaign 17 are now available online. We encourage all users to review the notes.

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Recently published scientific publications

  • Maria Pia Di Mauro: The rotational shear layer inside the early red-giant star KIC 4448777
    Updated: Thu 20th September 2018 12:11.
  • Jie Yu: Predicting radial-velocity jitter induced by stellar oscillations based on Kepler data
    Updated: Thu 6th September 2018 06:20.
  • C. Gehan: Core rotation braking on the red giant branch for various mass ranges
    Updated: Wed 29th August 2018 11:43.
  • D. M. Bowman: K2 space photometry reveals rotational modulation and stellar pulsations in chemically peculiar A and B stars
    Updated: Fri 24th August 2018 11:30.
  • Durlabh Pande: Surface gravities for 15,000 Kepler stars measured from stellar granulation and validated with Gaia DR2 parallaxes
    Updated: Fri 3rd August 2018 06:08.
  • S. Frandsen: The mass and age of the first SONG target: the red giant 46 LMi.
    Updated: Tue 26th June 2018 09:32.
  • D. L. Compton: Surface correction of main sequence solar-like oscillators with the it Kepler LEGACY sample
    Updated: Tue 26th June 2018 04:08.

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