John Troeltzsch

TL;DR: The K2 mission as discussed by the authors uses an innovative way of operating the Kepler spacecraft to observe target fields along the ecliptic for the next 2-3 years, with an estimated photometric precision near 400 ppm in a single 30 minute observation.

TL;DR: The K2 mission as mentioned in this paper uses an innovative way of operating the Kepler spacecraft to observe target fields along the ecliptic for the next 2-3 years, with an estimated photometric precision near 400 ppm in a single 30 minute observation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide updates to the Kepler planet candidate sample based upon nearly two years of high-precision photometry (i.e., Q1-Q8).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented the first analysis in terms of star-dependent instellation flux, which allows us to track HZ planets, and they found that the HZ occurrence of planets with radius between 0.5 and 1.5 R orbiting stars with effective temperatures between 4800 K and 6300 K. They also presented occurrence rates for various stellar populations and planet size ranges.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented the first analysis in terms of star-dependent instellation flux, which allows us to track HZ planets, and they found that the average HZ radius of a rocky planet around G and K dwarfs is about 6 pc away from the Sun and there are about 4 HZ rocky planets within 10 pc of the Sun.