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Eric B. Ford
Researcher at Pennsylvania State University
Publications - 397
Citations - 50467
Eric B. Ford is an academic researcher from Pennsylvania State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Planet & Exoplanet. The author has an hindex of 100, co-authored 384 publications receiving 46864 citations. Previous affiliations of Eric B. Ford include University of California, Berkeley & Princeton University.
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Kepler Planet-Detection Mission: Introduction and First Results
William J. Borucki,David G. Koch,Gibor Basri,Natalie M. Batalha,Timothy M. Brown,Douglas A. Caldwell,John Caldwell,Joørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard,William D. Cochran,Edna DeVore,Edward W. Dunham,Andrea K. Dupree,Thomas N. Gautier,John C. Geary,Ronald L. Gilliland,Alan Gould,Steve B. Howell,Jon M. Jenkins,Yoji Kondo,David W. Latham,Geoffrey W. Marcy,Søren Meibom,Hans Kjeldsen,Jack J. Lissauer,David G. Monet,David Morrison,Dimitar Sasselov,Jill Tarter,Alan P. Boss,Donald E. Brownlee,Toby Owen,Derek Buzasi,David Charbonneau,Laurance R. Doyle,Jonathan J. Fortney,Eric B. Ford,Matthew J. Holman,Sara Seager,Jason H. Steffen,William F. Welsh,Jason F. Rowe,Howard T. Anderson,Lars A. Buchhave,David R. Ciardi,Lucianne M. Walkowicz,W. H. Sherry,Elliott P. Horch,Howard Isaacson,Mark E. Everett,Debra A. Fischer,Guillermo Torres,John Asher Johnson,Michael Endl,Phillip J. MacQueen,Stephen T. Bryson,Jessie L. Dotson,Michael R. Haas,Jeffrey Kolodziejczak,Jeffrey Van Cleve,Hema Chandrasekaran,Joseph D. Twicken,Elisa V. Quintana,Bruce D. Clarke,Christopher C. R. Allen,Jie Li,Haley Wu,Peter Tenenbaum,E. Verner,Frederick C. Bruhweiler,Jason W. Barnes,Andrej Prsa +70 more
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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Sdss-iii: massive spectroscopic surveys of the distant universe, the milky way, and extra-solar planetary systems
Daniel J. Eisenstein,Daniel J. Eisenstein,David H. Weinberg,Eric Agol,Hiroaki Aihara,Carlos Allende Prieto,Carlos Allende Prieto,Scott F. Anderson,James A. Arns,Éric Aubourg,Stephen Bailey,Eduardo Balbinot,Robert H. Barkhouser,Timothy C. Beers,Andreas A. Berlind,Steven J. Bickerton,Dmitry Bizyaev,Michael R. Blanton,John J. Bochanski,Adam S. Bolton,Casey T. Bosman,Jo Bovy,W. N. Brandt,Ben Breslauer,Howard Brewington,J. Brinkmann,Peter J. Brown,Joel R. Brownstein,Dan Burger,Nicolás G. Busca,H. Campbell,Phillip Cargile,William Carithers,Joleen K. Carlberg,Michael A. Carr,Liang Chang,Liang Chang,Yanmei Chen,Cristina Chiappini,Johan Comparat,Natalia Connolly,Marina Cortês,Rupert A. C. Croft,Katia Cunha,Luiz N. da Costa,James R. A. Davenport,Kyle S. Dawson,Nathan De Lee,Gustavo F. Porto de Mello,Fernando de Simoni,Janice D. R. Dean,Saurav Dhital,Anne Ealet,Garrett Ebelke,Garrett Ebelke,Edward M. Edmondson,J. Eiting,Stephanie Escoffier,M. Esposito,M. Esposito,Michael L. Evans,Xiaohui Fan,Bruno Femenía Castellá,Bruno Femenía Castellá,Leticia D. Ferreira,Greg Fitzgerald,Scott W. Fleming,Andreu Font-Ribera,Eric B. Ford,Peter M. Frinchaboy,Ana E. García Pérez,B. Scott Gaudi,Jian Ge,Luan Ghezzi,Bruce Gillespie,Gerry Gilmore,Léo Girardi,J. Richard Gott,Andrew Gould,Eva K. Grebel,James E. Gunn,J. C. Hamilton,Paul Harding,David W. Harris,Suzanne L. Hawley,Frederick R. Hearty,Joseph F. Hennawi,Jonay I. González Hernández,Shirley Ho,David W. Hogg,Jon A. Holtzman,K. Honscheid,Naohisa Inada,Inese I. Ivans,Linhua Jiang,Peng Jiang,Peng Jiang,Jennifer A. Johnson,Cathy Jordan,Wendell P. Jordan,Wendell P. Jordan,Guinevere Kauffmann,Eyal A. Kazin,D. Kirkby,Mark A. Klaene,Gillian R. Knapp,Jean-Paul Kneib,Christopher S. Kochanek,Lars Koesterke,Juna A. Kollmeier,Richard G. Kron,Richard G. Kron,Hubert Lampeitl,Dustin Lang,James E. Lawler,Jean-Marc Le Goff,Brian Lee,Young Sun Lee,Jarron Leisenring,Yen-Ting Lin,Yen-Ting Lin,Jian Liu,Dan Long,Craig P. Loomis,Sara Lucatello,Britt Lundgren,Robert H. Lupton,Bo Ma,Zhibo Ma,Nicholas MacDonald,Claude E. Mack,Suvrath Mahadevan,Marcio A. G. Maia,Steven R. Majewski,Martin Makler,Elena Malanushenko,Viktor Malanushenko,Rachel Mandelbaum,Claudia Maraston,Daniel Margala,Paul Maseman,Paul Maseman,Karen L. Masters,Cameron K. McBride,Patrick McDonald,Patrick McDonald,Ian D. McGreer,Richard G. McMahon,Olga Mena Requejo,Brice Ménard,Brice Ménard,Jordi Miralda-Escudé,Jordi Miralda-Escudé,Heather L. Morrison,Fergal Mullally,Fergal Mullally,Demitri Muna,Hitoshi Murayama,Adam D. Myers,Tracy Naugle,Angelo Fausti Neto,Duy Cuong Nguyen,Robert C. Nichol,David L. Nidever,Robert W. O'Connell,Ricardo L. C. Ogando,Matthew D. Olmstead,Daniel Oravetz,Nikhil Padmanabhan,Martin Paegert,Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille,Kaike Pan,Parul Pandey,John K. Parejko,Isabelle Pâris,Paulo S. Pellegrini,Joshua Pepper,Will J. Percival,Patrick Petitjean,Robert Pfaffenberger,Janine Pforr,Stefanie Phleps,Christophe Pichon,Matthew M. Pieri,Matthew M. Pieri,Francisco Prada,Adrian M. Price-Whelan,M. Jordan Raddick,Beatriz H. F. Ramos,I. Neill Reid,Céline Reylé,James Rich,Gordon T. Richards,George H. Rieke,Marcia J. Rieke,Hans-Walter Rix,Annie C. Robin,H. J. Rocha-Pinto,Constance M. Rockosi,Natalie A. Roe,Emmanuel Rollinde,Ashley J. Ross,Nicholas P. Ross,Bruno M. Rossetto,Ariel G. Sánchez,Basilio X. Santiago,Conor Sayres,Ricardo P. Schiavon,David J. Schlegel,Katharine J. Schlesinger,Sarah J. Schmidt,Donald P. Schneider,Kris Sellgren,Alaina Shelden,Erin Sheldon,Matthew Shetrone,Yiping Shu,John D. Silverman,Jennifer Simmerer,Audrey Simmons,Thirupathi Sivarani,Thirupathi Sivarani,Mike Skrutskie,Anže Slosar,Stephen A. Smee,Verne V. Smith,Stephanie A. Snedden,Keivan G. Stassun,Keivan G. Stassun,Oliver Steele,Matthias Steinmetz,Mark H. Stockett,Todd Stollberg,Michael A. Strauss,Alexander S. Szalay,Masayuki Tanaka,Aniruddha R. Thakar,Daniel Thomas,Jeremy L. Tinker,Benjamin M. Tofflemire,Rita Tojeiro,Christy Tremonti,Mariana Vargas Magaña,Licia Verde,Licia Verde,Nicole P. Vogt,David A. Wake,Xiaoke Wan,Ji Wang,Benjamin A. Weaver,Martin White,Simon D. M. White,John C. Wilson,John P. Wisniewski,W. Michael Wood-Vasey,Brian Yanny,Naoki Yasuda,Christophe Yèche,Donald G. York,Erick T. Young,Erick T. Young,Gail Zasowski,Idit Zehavi,Bo Zhao +263 more
TL;DR: SDSS-III as mentioned in this paper is a program of four spectroscopic surveys on three scientific themes: dark energy and cosmological parameters, the history and structure of the Milky Way, and the population of giant planets around other stars.
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SDSS-III: Massive Spectroscopic Surveys of the Distant Universe, the Milky Way Galaxy, and Extra-Solar Planetary Systems
Daniel J. Eisenstein,David H. Weinberg,Eric Agol,Hiroaki Aihara,Carlos Allende Prieto,Scott F. Anderson,James A. Arns,Éric Aubourg,Stephen Bailey,Eduardo Balbinot,Robert H. Barkhouser,Timothy C. Beers,Andreas A. Berlind,Steven J. Bickerton,Dmitry Bizyaev,Michael R. Blanton,John J. Bochanski,Adam S. Bolton,Casey T. Bosman,Jo Bovy,Howard Brewington,W. N. Brandt,Ben Breslauer,J. Brinkmann,Peter de Nully Brown,Joel R. Brownstein,Dan Burger,Nicolás G. Busca,Heather Campbell,Phillip Cargile,William Carithers,Joleen K. Carlberg,Michael A. Carr,Yanmei Chen,Cristina Chiappini,Johan Comparat,Natalia Connolly,Marina Cortês,Rupert A. C. Croft,Luiz N. da Costa,Katia Cunha,James R. A. Davenport,Kyle S. Dawson,Nathan De Lee,Gustavo F. Porto de Mello,Fernando de Simoni,Janice D. R. Dean,Saurav Dhital,Anne Ealet,Garrett Ebelke,Edward M. Edmondson,J. Eiting,Stephanie Escoffier,M. Esposito,Michael L. Evans,Xiaohui Fan,Bruno Femenía Castellá,Leticia D. Ferreira,Greg Fitzgerald,Scott W. Fleming,Andreu Font-Ribera,Eric B. Ford,Peter M. Frinchaboy,Ana G. Pérez,B. Scott Gaudi,Jian Ge,Luan Ghezzi,Bruce Gillespie,Gerry Gilmore,Léo Girardi,J. Richard Gott,Andrew Gould,Eva K. Grebel,James E. Gunn,Jean-Christophe Hamilton,Paul Harding,David W. Harris,Suzanne L. Hawley,Frederick R. Hearty,Jonay I. González Hernández,Shirley Ho,David W. Hogg,Jon A. Holtzman,K. Honscheid,Naohisa Inada,Inese I. Ivans,Linhua Jiang,Peng Jiang,Jennifer A. Johnson,Cathy Jordan,Wendell P. Jordan,Guinevere Kauffmann,Eyal A. Kazin,D. Kirkby,Mark A. Klaene,Jean-Paul Kneib,Gillian R. Knapp,Christopher S. Kochanek,Lars Koesterke,Juna A. Kollmeier,Richard G. Kron,Dustin Lang,James E. Lawler,Jean-Marc Le Goff,Brian L. Lee,Young Sun Lee,Jarron Leisenring,Yen-Ting Lin,Jian Liu,Dan Long,Craig Loomis,Sara Lucatello,Britt Lundgren,Robert H. Lupton,Bo Ma,Zhibo Ma,Nicholas R. MacDonald,Claude E. Mack,Suvrath Mahadevan,Marcio A. G. Maia,Elena Malanushenko,Viktor Malanushenko,Steven R. Majewski,Martin Makler,Rachel Mandelbaum,Claudia Maraston,Daniel Margala,Paul Maseman,Karen L. Masters,Cameron K. McBride,Patrick McDonald,Ian D. McGreer,Richard G. McMahon,Olga Mena Requejo,Brice Ménard,Jordi Miralda-Escudé,Heather L. Morrison,Fergal Mullally,Demitri Muna,Hitoshi Murayama,Adam D. Myers,Tracy Naugle,Angelo Fausti Neto,Duy Cuong Nguyen,Robert C. Nichol,David L. Nidever,Robert W. O'Connell,Ricardo L. C. Ogando,Matthew D. Olmstead,Daniel Oravetz,Nikhil Padmanabhan,Martin Paegert,Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille,Kaike Pan,Parul Pandey,John K. Parejko,Isabelle Paris,Paulo S. Pellegrini,Joshua Pepper,Will J. Percival,Patrick Petitjean,Robert Pfaffenberger,Janine Pforr,Stefanie Phleps,Christophe Pichon,Matthew M. Pieri,Francisco Prada,Adrian M. Price-Whelan,M. Jordan Raddick,Beatriz H. F. Ramos,Celine Ryle,I. Neill Reid,James Rich,Gordon T. Richards,George H. Rieke,Marcia J. Rieke,Hans-Walter Rix,Annie C. Robin,Helio J. Rocha-Pinto,Constance M. Rockosi,Natalie A. Roe,Emmanuel Rollinde,Ashley J. Ross,Nicholas P. Ross,Bruno M. Rossetto,Ariel G. Sánchez,Basilio X. Santiago,Conor Sayres,Ricardo P. Schiavon,David J. Schlegel,Katharine J. Schlesinger,Sarah J. Schmidt,Donald P. Schneider,Kris Sellgren,Alaina Shelden,Erin S. Sheldon,Matthew Shetrone,Yiping Shu,John D. Silverman,Jennifer Simmerer,Audrey Simmons,Thirupathi Sivarani,Mike Skrutskie,Anze Slosar,Stephen A. Smee,Verne V. Smith,Stephanie A. Snedden,Keivan G. Stassun,Oliver Steele,Matthias Steinmetz,Mark H. Stockett,Todd Stollberg,Michael A. Strauss,Masayuki Tanaka,Aniruddha R. Thakar,Daniel Thomas,Jeremy L. Tinker,Benjamin M. Tofflemire,Rita Tojeiro,Christy Tremonti,Mariana Vargas Magaña,Licia Verde,Nicole P. Vogt,David A. Wake,Xiaoke Wan,Ji Wang,Benjamin A. Weaver,Martin White,Simon D. M. White,John C. Wilson,John P. Wisniewski,W. Michael Wood-Vasey,Brian Yanny,Naoki Yasuda,Christophe Yèche,Donald G. York,Erick T. Young,Gail Zasowski,Idit Zehavi,Bo Zhao +239 more
TL;DR: SDSS-III as discussed by the authors is a program of four spectroscopic surveys on three scientific themes: dark energy and cosmological parameters, the history and structure of the Milky Way, and the population of giant planets around other 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.