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Elliott P. Horch

Researcher at Southern Connecticut State University

Publications -  209
Citations -  16169

Elliott P. Horch is an academic researcher from Southern Connecticut State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Planet & Stars. The author has an hindex of 57, co-authored 204 publications receiving 14756 citations. Previous affiliations of Elliott P. Horch include University of Massachusetts Amherst & ASTRON.

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Kepler Planet-Detection Mission: Introduction and First Results

William J. Borucki, +70 more
- 19 Feb 2010 - 
TL;DR: The Kepler mission was designed to determine the frequency of Earth-sized planets in and near the habitable zone of Sun-like stars, which is the region where planetary temperatures are suitable for water to exist on a planet's surface.
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Characteristics of planetary candidates observed by Kepler. II. Analysis of the first four months of data

William J. Borucki, +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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Characteristics of planetary candidates observed by Kepler, II: Analysis of the first four months of data

TL;DR: In this paper, the Kepler mission released data for 156,453 stars observed from the beginning of the science observations on 2 May through 16 September 2009, and there are 1235 planetary candidates with transit-like signatures detected in this period.
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Characteristics of Kepler Planetary Candidates Based on the First Data Set

William J. Borucki, +61 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the identity and characteristics of 305 released stars with planetary candidates are given, and five candidates are present in and near the habitable zone; two near super-Earth size, and three bracketing the size of Jupiter.