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Ronald L. Gilliland

Researcher at Pennsylvania State University

Publications -  223
Citations -  43218

Ronald L. Gilliland is an academic researcher from Pennsylvania State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Planet & Stars. The author has an hindex of 94, co-authored 223 publications receiving 41200 citations. Previous affiliations of Ronald L. Gilliland include Space Telescope Science Institute.

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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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Planetary Candidates Observed by Kepler. III. Analysis of the First 16 Months of Data

Natalie M. Batalha, +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, +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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Planetary Candidates Observed by Kepler, III: Analysis of the First 16 Months of Data

Natalie M. Batalha, +72 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the noise-weighted robust averaging of multi-quarter photo-center offsets derived from difference image analysis, which identifies likely background eclipsing binaries.