Edward W. Dunham

TL;DR: The Kepler mission as mentioned in this paper was designed with the explicit capability to detect Earth-size planets in the habitable zone of solar-like stars using the transit photometry method, and the results from just 43 days of data along with ground-based follow-up observations have identified five new transiting planets with measurements of their masses, radii, and orbital periods.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors characterize the dynamical properties of these candidate multi-planet systems and find that virtually all candidate systems are stable, as tested by numerical integrations that assume a nominal mass-radius relationship.

TL;DR: The first Earth-size exoplanet was discovered by NASA's Kepler mission as discussed by the authors, which used transit photometry to determine the frequency of Earthsize planets in or near the habitable zone of Sun-like stars.

TL;DR: In this paper, a decomposition of observed noise for an ensemble of 12th magnitude stars arising from fundamental terms (Poisson and readout noise), added noise due to the instrument and that intrinsic to the stars is presented.

TL;DR: TrES-2 as discussed by the authors is the second transiting hot Jupiter discovered by the Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey (TAES) and orbits the nearby star GSC 03549-02811 every 2.47063 days.