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Andrew W. Howard
Researcher at University of Toronto
Publications - 934
Citations - 61950
Andrew W. Howard is an academic researcher from University of Toronto. The author has contributed to research in topics: Planet & Exoplanet. The author has an hindex of 112, co-authored 866 publications receiving 55716 citations. Previous affiliations of Andrew W. Howard include Hospital for Sick Children & Pennsylvania State University.
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Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
George R. Ricker,Joshua N. Winn,Roland Vanderspek,David W. Latham,Gáspár Á. Bakos,Jacob L. Bean,Zachory K. Berta-Thompson,Timothy M. Brown,Lars A. Buchhave,Lars A. Buchhave,Nathaniel R. Butler,R. Paul Butler,William J. Chaplin,William J. Chaplin,David Charbonneau,Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard,Mark Clampin,Drake Deming,John P. Doty,Nathan De Lee,Nathan De Lee,Courtney D. Dressing,Edward W. Dunham,Michael Endl,Francois Fressin,Jian Ge,Thomas Henning,Matthew J. Holman,Andrew W. Howard,Shigeru Ida,Jon M. Jenkins,G. Jernigan,John Asher Johnson,Lisa Kaltenegger,Nobuyuki Kawai,Hans Kjeldsen,Gregory Laughlin,Alan M. Levine,Douglas N. C. Lin,Jack J. Lissauer,Phillip J. MacQueen,Geoffrey W. Marcy,Peter R. McCullough,Peter R. McCullough,Timothy D. Morton,Norio Narita,Martin Paegert,Enric Palle,Francesco Pepe,Joshua Pepper,Joshua Pepper,Andreas Quirrenbach,Stephen A. Rinehart,Dimitar Sasselov,Bun'ei Sato,Sara Seager,Alessandro Sozzetti,Keivan G. Stassun,Keivan G. Stassun,Peter Sullivan,Andrew Szentgyorgyi,Guillermo Torres,Stéphane Udry,Joel Villasenor +63 more
TL;DR: The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) as discussed by the authors will search for planets transiting bright and nearby stars using four wide-field optical charge-coupled device cameras to monitor at least 200,000 main-sequence dwarf stars.
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The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
George R. Ricker,Joshua N. Winn,Roland Vanderspek,David W. Latham,Gáspár Á. Bakos,Jacob L. Bean,Zachory K. Berta-Thompson,Timothy M. Brown,Lars A. Buchhave,Nathaniel R. Butler,R. Paul Butler,William J. Chaplin,David Charbonneau,Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard,Mark Clampin,Drake Deming,John P. Doty,Nathan De Lee,Courtney D. Dressing,Edward W. Dunham,Michael Endl,Francois Fressin,Jian Ge,Thomas Henning,Matthew J. Holman,Andrew W. Howard,Shigeru Ida,Jon M. Jenkins,G. Jernigan,John Asher Johnson,Lisa Kaltenegger,Nobuyuki Kawai,Hans Kjeldsen,Gregory Laughlin,Alan M. Levine,Douglas N. C. Lin,Jack J. Lissauer,Phillip J. MacQueen,Geoffrey W. Marcy,Peter R. McCullough,Timothy D. Morton,Norio Narita,Martin Paegert,Enric Palle,Francesco Pepe,Joshua Pepper,Andreas Quirrenbach,S. A. Rinehart,Dimitar Sasselov,Bun'ei Sato,Sara Seager,Alessandro Sozzetti,Keivan G. Stassun,Peter Sullivan,Andrew Szentgyorgyi,Guillermo Torres,Stéphane Udry,Joel Villasenor +57 more
TL;DR: The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) as mentioned in this paper was selected by NASA for launch in 2017 as an Astrophysics Explorer mission to search for planets transiting bright and nearby stars.
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Planetary Candidates Observed by Kepler. III. Analysis of the First 16 Months of Data
Natalie M. Batalha,Natalie M. Batalha,Jason F. Rowe,Stephen T. Bryson,Thomas Barclay,Christopher J. Burke,Douglas A. Caldwell,Jessie L. Christiansen,Fergal Mullally,Susan E. Thompson,Timothy M. Brown,Andrea K. Dupree,Daniel C. Fabrycky,Eric B. Ford,Jonathan J. Fortney,Ronald L. Gilliland,Howard Isaacson,David W. Latham,Geoffrey W. Marcy,Samuel N. Quinn,Samuel N. Quinn,Darin Ragozzine,Avi Shporer,William J. Borucki,David R. Ciardi,Thomas N. Gautier,Michael R. Haas,Jon M. Jenkins,David G. Koch,Jack J. Lissauer,William Rapin,Gibor Basri,Alan P. Boss,Lars A. Buchhave,Joshua A. Carter,David Charbonneau,Joergen Christensen-Dalsgaard,Bruce D. Clarke,William D. Cochran,Brice-Olivier Demory,Jean-Michel Desert,Edna DeVore,Laurance R. Doyle,Gilbert A. Esquerdo,Mark E. Everett,Francois Fressin,John C. Geary,Forrest R. Girouard,Alan Gould,Jennifer R. Hall,Matthew J. Holman,Andrew W. Howard,Steve B. Howell,Khadeejah A. Ibrahim,Karen Kinemuchi,Hans Kjeldsen,Todd C. Klaus,Jie Li,Philip W. Lucas,Søren Meibom,Robert L. Morris,Andrej Prsa,Elisa V. Quintana,Dwight T. Sanderfer,Dimitar Sasselov,Shawn Seader,Jeffrey C. Smith,Jason H. Steffen,Martin Still,Martin C. Stumpe,Jill Tarter,Peter Tenenbaum,Guillermo Torres,Joseph D. Twicken,Kamal Uddin,Jeffrey Van Cleve,Lucianne M. Walkowicz,William F. Welsh +77 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors verified nearly 5000 periodic transit-like signals against astrophysical and instrumental false positives yielding 1108 viable new transiting planet candidates, bringing the total count up to over 2300.
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Characteristics of planetary candidates observed by Kepler. II. Analysis of the first four months of data
William J. Borucki,David G. Koch,Gibor Basri,Natalie M. Batalha,Timothy M. Brown,Stephen T. Bryson,Douglas A. Caldwell,Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard,William D. Cochran,Edna DeVore,Edward W. Dunham,Thomas N. Gautier,John C. Geary,Ronald L. Gilliland,Alan Gould,Steve B. Howell,Jon M. Jenkins,David W. Latham,Jack J. Lissauer,Geoffrey W. Marcy,Jason F. Rowe,Dimitar Sasselov,Alan P. Boss,David Charbonneau,David R. Ciardi,Laurance R. Doyle,Andrea K. Dupree,Eric B. Ford,Jonathan J. Fortney,Matthew J. Holman,Sara Seager,Jason H. Steffen,Jill Tarter,William F. Welsh,Christopher C. R. Allen,Lars A. Buchhave,Jessie L. Christiansen,Bruce D. Clarke,Santanu Das,Jean-Michel Desert,Michael Endl,Daniel C. Fabrycky,Francois Fressin,Michael R. Haas,Elliott P. Horch,Andrew W. Howard,Howard Isaacson,Hans Kjeldsen,Jeffery J. Kolodziejczak,Craig Kulesa,Jie Li,Philip W. Lucas,P. Machalek,Donald W. McCarthy,Phillip J. MacQueen,Søren Meibom,Thibaut Miquel,Andrej Prsa,Samuel N. Quinn,Elisa V. Quintana,Darin Ragozzine,William Sherry,Avi Shporer,Peter Tenenbaum,Guillermo Torres,Joseph D. Twicken,Jeffrey Van Cleve,Lucianne M. Walkowicz,Fred C. Witteborn,Martin Still +69 more
TL;DR: In this article, the Kepler mission released data for 156,453 stars observed from the beginning of the science observations on 2009 May 2 through September 16, and there are 1235 planetary candidates with transit-like signatures detected in this period.
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Planetary Candidates Observed by Kepler, III: Analysis of the First 16 Months of Data
Natalie M. Batalha,Jason F. Rowe,Stephen T. Bryson,Thomas Barclay,Christopher J. Burke,Douglas A. Caldwell,Jessie L. Christiansen,Fergal Mullally,Susan E. Thompson,Timothy M. Brown,Andrea K. Dupree,Daniel C. Fabrycky,Eric B. Ford,Jonathan J. Fortney,Ronald L. Gilliland,Howard Isaacson,David W. Latham,Geoffrey W. Marcy,Samuel N. Quinn,Samuel N. Quinn,Darin Ragozzine,Avi Shporer,William J. Borucki,David R. Ciardi,Thomas N. Gautier,Michael R. Haas,Jon M. Jenkins,David G. Koch,Jack J. Lissauer,William Rapin,Gibor Basri,Alan P. Boss,Lars A. Buchhave,David Charbonneau,Joergen Christensen-Dalsgaard,Bruce D. Clarke,William D. Cochran,Brice-Olivier Demory,Edna DeVore,Gilbert A. Esquerdo,Mark E. Everett,Francois Fressin,John C. Geary,Forrest R. Girouard,Alan Gould,Jennifer R. Hall,Matthew J. Holman,Andrew W. Howard,Steve B. Howell,Khadeejah A. Ibrahim,Karen Kinemuchi,Hans Kjeldsen,Todd C. Klaus,Jie Li,Philip W. Lucas,Robert L. Morris,Andrej Prsa,Elisa V. Quintana,Dwight T. Sanderfer,Dimitar Sasselov,Shawn Seader,Jeffrey C. Smith,Jason H. Steffen,Martin Still,Martin C. Stumpe,Jill Tarter,Peter Tenenbaum,Guillermo Torres,Joseph D. Twicken,Kamal Uddin,Jeffrey Van Cleve,Lucianne M. Walkowicz,William F. Welsh +72 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the noise-weighted robust averaging of multi-quarter photo-center offsets derived from difference image analysis, which identifies likely background eclipsing binaries.