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Phillip J. MacQueen
Researcher at University of Texas at Austin
Publications - 220
Citations - 25626
Phillip J. MacQueen is an academic researcher from University of Texas at Austin. The author has contributed to research in topics: Planet & Exoplanet. The author has an hindex of 57, co-authored 211 publications receiving 23243 citations.
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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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Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
George R. Ricker,Joshua N. Winn,Roland Vanderspek,David W. Latham,Gáspár Á. Bakos,Jacob L. Bean,Zachory K. Berta-Thompson,Timothy M. Brown,Lars A. Buchhave,Lars A. Buchhave,Nathaniel R. Butler,R. Paul Butler,William J. Chaplin,William J. Chaplin,David Charbonneau,Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard,Mark Clampin,Drake Deming,John P. Doty,Nathan De Lee,Nathan De Lee,Courtney D. Dressing,Edward W. Dunham,Michael Endl,Francois Fressin,Jian Ge,Thomas Henning,Matthew J. Holman,Andrew W. Howard,Shigeru Ida,Jon M. Jenkins,G. Jernigan,John Asher Johnson,Lisa Kaltenegger,Nobuyuki Kawai,Hans Kjeldsen,Gregory Laughlin,Alan M. Levine,Douglas N. C. Lin,Jack J. Lissauer,Phillip J. MacQueen,Geoffrey W. Marcy,Peter R. McCullough,Peter R. McCullough,Timothy D. Morton,Norio Narita,Martin Paegert,Enric Palle,Francesco Pepe,Joshua Pepper,Joshua Pepper,Andreas Quirrenbach,Stephen A. Rinehart,Dimitar Sasselov,Bun'ei Sato,Sara Seager,Alessandro Sozzetti,Keivan G. Stassun,Keivan G. Stassun,Peter Sullivan,Andrew Szentgyorgyi,Guillermo Torres,Stéphane Udry,Joel Villasenor +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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The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
George R. Ricker,Joshua N. Winn,Roland Vanderspek,David W. Latham,Gáspár Á. Bakos,Jacob L. Bean,Zachory K. Berta-Thompson,Timothy M. Brown,Lars A. Buchhave,Nathaniel R. Butler,R. Paul Butler,William J. Chaplin,David Charbonneau,Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard,Mark Clampin,Drake Deming,John P. Doty,Nathan De Lee,Courtney D. Dressing,Edward W. Dunham,Michael Endl,Francois Fressin,Jian Ge,Thomas Henning,Matthew J. Holman,Andrew W. Howard,Shigeru Ida,Jon M. Jenkins,G. Jernigan,John Asher Johnson,Lisa Kaltenegger,Nobuyuki Kawai,Hans Kjeldsen,Gregory Laughlin,Alan M. Levine,Douglas N. C. Lin,Jack J. Lissauer,Phillip J. MacQueen,Geoffrey W. Marcy,Peter R. McCullough,Timothy D. Morton,Norio Narita,Martin Paegert,Enric Palle,Francesco Pepe,Joshua Pepper,Andreas Quirrenbach,S. A. Rinehart,Dimitar Sasselov,Bun'ei Sato,Sara Seager,Alessandro Sozzetti,Keivan G. Stassun,Peter Sullivan,Andrew Szentgyorgyi,Guillermo Torres,Stéphane Udry,Joel Villasenor +57 more
TL;DR: The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) as mentioned in this paper was selected by NASA for launch in 2017 as an Astrophysics Explorer mission to search for planets transiting bright and nearby stars.
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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.
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Planet Occurrence within 0.25 AU of Solar-Type Stars from Kepler
Andrew W. Howard,Geoffrey W. Marcy,Stephen T. Bryson,Jon M. Jenkins,Jason F. Rowe,Natalie M. Batalha,William J. Borucki,David G. Koch,Edward W. Dunham,Thomas N. Gautier,Jeffrey Van Cleve,William D. Cochran,David W. Latham,Jack J. Lissauer,Guillermo Torres,Timothy M. Brown,Ronald L. Gilliland,Lars A. Buchhave,Douglas A. Caldwell,Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard,Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard,David R. Ciardi,Francois Fressin,Michael R. Haas,Steve B. Howell,Hans Kjeldsen,Sara Seager,Leslie A. Rogers,Dimitar Sasselov,Jason H. Steffen,Gibor Basri,David Charbonneau,Jessie L. Christiansen,B. D. Clarke,Andrea K. Dupree,Daniel C. Fabrycky,Debra A. Fischer,Eric B. Ford,Jonathan J. Fortney,Jill Tarter,Forrest R. Girouard,Matthew J. Holman,John Asher Johnson,Todd C. Klaus,P. Machalek,Althea V. Moorhead,Robert C. Morehead,Darin Ragozzine,Peter Tenenbaum,Joseph D. Twicken,Samuel N. Quinn,Howard Isaacson,Avi Shporer,Avi Shporer,Philip W. Lucas,Lucianne M. Walkowicz,William F. Welsh,Alan P. Boss,Edna DeVore,Alan Gould,Jeffrey C. Smith,Robert L. Morris,Andrej Prsa,Timothy D. Morton,Martin Still,Susan E. Thompson,Fergal Mullally,Michael Endl,Phillip J. MacQueen +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.