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John Asher Johnson

Researcher at Harvard University

Publications -  243
Citations -  37407

John Asher Johnson is an academic researcher from Harvard University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Planet & Exoplanet. The author has an hindex of 81, co-authored 241 publications receiving 34317 citations. Previous affiliations of John Asher Johnson include California Institute of Technology & Concordia University Wisconsin.

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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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Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite

George R. Ricker, +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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Planet Occurrence within 0.25 AU of Solar-Type Stars from Kepler

Andrew W. Howard, +68 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report the distribution of planets as a function of planet radius, orbital period, and stellar effective temperature for orbital periods less than 50 days around solar-type (GK) stars.