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Steve B. Howell
Researcher at Ames Research Center
Publications - 404
Citations - 21067
Steve B. Howell is an academic researcher from Ames Research Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Planet & Exoplanet. The author has an hindex of 56, co-authored 319 publications receiving 18800 citations. Previous affiliations of Steve B. Howell include Planetary Science Institute & Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy.
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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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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.
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Paul A. Abell,J. Allison,Scott F. Anderson,John Andrew,J.Roger P. Angel,Lee Armus,David Arnett,S. Asztalos,Tim Axelrod,Stephen Bailey,David R. Ballantyne,J. Bankert,Wayne A. Barkhouse,Jeffrey D. Barr,L. Felipe Barrientos,Aaron J. Barth,James G. Bartlett,Andrew C. Becker,Jacek Becla,Timothy C. Beers,Joseph P. Bernstein,Rahul Biswas,Michael R. Blanton,Joshua S. Bloom,John J. Bochanski,P. Boeshaar,Kirk D. Borne,Marusa Bradac,W. N. Brandt,Carrie Bridge,Michael E. Brown,Robert J. Brunner,James S. Bullock,Adam J. Burgasser,J. H. Burge,D. L. Burke,Phillip Cargile,Srinivasan Chandrasekharan,George Chartas,Steven R. Chesley,You-Hua Chu,D. Cinabro,Mark Claire,Charles F. Claver,Douglas Clowe,A. J. Connolly,Kem H. Cook,Jeff Cooke,Asantha Cooray,Kevin R. Covey,Christopher S. Culliton,Roelof S. de Jong,Willem H. de Vries,Victor P. Debattista,Francisco Delgado,Ian P. Dell'Antonio,Saurav Dhital,Rosanne Di Stefano,Mark Dickinson,Benjamin Dilday,S. G. Djorgovski,Gregory Dobler,Ciro Donalek,G. P. Dubois-Felsmann,Josef Durech,Ardis Eliasdottir,Michael Eracleous,Laurent Eyer,Emilio E. Falco,Xiaohui Fan,Christopher D. Fassnacht,Henry C. Ferguson,Yanga R. Fernandez,Brian D. Fields,Douglas P. Finkbeiner,Eduardo E. Figueroa,Derek B. Fox,Harold Francke,James Frank,Josh Frieman,S. Fromenteau,Muhammad Furqan,Gaspar Galaz,Avishay Gal-Yam,Peter M. Garnavich,Eric Gawiser,John C. Geary,Perry M. Gee,Robert R. Gibson,Kirk Gilmore,E. Grace,Richard F. Green,William J. Gressler,Carl J. Grillmair,Salman Habib,J. S. Haggerty,Mario Hamuy,Alan W. Harris,Suzanne L. Hawley,Alan Heavens,Leslie Hebb,Todd J. Henry,Edward Hileman,Eric J. Hilton,Keri Hoadley,Jay B. Holberg,M. J. Holman,Steve B. Howell,Leopoldo Infante,Zeljko Ivezic,Suzanne Jacoby,Bhuvnesh Jain,Jedicke,M. James Jee,J. Garrett Jernigan,Saurabh Jha,Kathryn V. Johnston,R. Lynne Jones,Mario Juric,Mikko Kaasalainen,Styliani,Kafka,Steven M. Kahn,Nathan A. Kaib,Jason S. Kalirai,J. Kantor,Mansi M. Kasliwal,Charles R. Keeton,Richard Kessler,Zoran Knezevic,Adam F. Kowalski,V. Krabbendam,K. Simon Krughoff,Shrinivas R. Kulkarni,Stephen Kuhlman,Mark Lacy,Sébastien Lépine,Ming Liang,A. Y. Lien,Paulina Lira,Knox S. Long,S. Lorenz,Jennifer M. Lotz,Robert H. Lupton,Julie Lutz,Lucas M. Macri,Ashish Mahabal,Rachel Mandelbaum,Phil Marshall,Morgan May,Peregrine M. McGehee,Brian Meadows,Alan Meert,Andrea Milani,Christopher J. Miller,M. L. Miller,David J. Mills,Dante Minniti,David G. Monet,Anjum S. Mukadam,Ehud Nakar,Douglas R. Neill,Jeffrey A. Newman,Sergei Nikolaev,Martin Nordby,Paul O'Connor,Masamune Oguri,John Oliver,Scot S. Olivier,Julia K. Olsen,Knut Olsen,Edward W. Olszewski,Hakeem M. Oluseyi,Nelson Padilla,Alex Parker,Joshua Pepper,John R. Peterson,Catherine Petry,Philip A. Pinto,James Pizagno,Bogdan Popescu,Andrej Prsa,Veljko Radcka,M. Jordan Raddick,Andrew P. Rasmussen,Arne Rau,Jeonghee Rho,James E. Rhoads,Gordon T. Richards,Stephen T. Ridgway,Brant Robertson,Rok Roškar,Abhijit Saha,Ata Sarajedini,Evan Scannapieco,T. Schalk,Rafe Schindler,Samuel Schmidt,Sarah J. Schmidt,Donald P. Schneider,German Schumacher,Ryan Scranton,Jacques Sebag,Lynn G. Seppala,Ohad Shemmer,Joshua D. Simon,M. Sivertz,Howard A. Smith,J. Allyn Smith,Nathan Smith,Anna H. Spitz,A. Stanford,Keivan G. Stassun,Jay Strader,Michael A. Strauss,Christopher W. Stubbs,Donald W. Sweeney,Alexander S. Szalay,Paula Szkody,Masahiro Takada,Paul Thorman,David Trilling,Virginia Trimble,Anthony Tyson,Richard Van Berg,Daniel E. Vanden Berk,Jake Vanderplas,Licia Verde,Bojan Vrsnak,Lucianne M. Walkowicz,Benjamin D. Wandelt,Sheng Wang,Yun Wang,Michael Warner,Risa H. Wechsler,Andrew A. West,Oliver Wiecha,Benjamin F. Williams,Beth Willman,David Wittman,Sidney C. Wolff,W. Michael Wood-Vasey,P. Wozniak,Patrick A. Young,Andrew R. Zentner,Hu Zhan +245 more
TL;DR: The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) as discussed by the authors will have an effective aperture of 6.7 meters and an imaging camera with field of view of 9.6 degrees.
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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 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,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,Bruce 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,Pavel Machalek,Althea V. Moorhead,Robert C. Morehead,Darin Ragozzine,Peter Tenenbaum,Joseph D. Twicken,Samuel N. Quinn,Howard Isaacson,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 +61 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors report the distribution of planets as a function of planet radius (R_p), orbital period (P), and stellar effective temperature (Teff) for P < 50 day orbits around GK stars.
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Kepler-16: A Transiting Circumbinary Planet
Laurance R. Doyle,Joshua A. Carter,Daniel C. Fabrycky,Robert W. Slawson,Steve B. Howell,Joshua N. Winn,Jerome A. Orosz,Andrej Prˇsa,William F. Welsh,Samuel N. Quinn,David W. Latham,Guillermo Torres,Lars A. Buchhave,Lars A. Buchhave,Geoffrey W. Marcy,Jonathan J. Fortney,Avi Shporer,Avi Shporer,Eric B. Ford,Jack J. Lissauer,Darin Ragozzine,Michael Rucker,Natalie M. Batalha,Jon M. Jenkins,William J. Borucki,David G. Koch,Christopher K. Middour,Jennifer R. Hall,Sean McCauliff,Michael N. Fanelli,Elisa V. Quintana,Matthew J. Holman,Douglas A. Caldwell,Martin Still,Robert P. Stefanik,Warren R. Brown,Gilbert A. Esquerdo,S. Tang,Gabor Furesz,Gabor Furesz,John C. Geary,Perry Berlind,Michael L. Calkins,Donald R. Short,Jason H. Steffen,Dimitar Sasselov,Edward W. Dunham,William D. Cochran,Alan P. Boss,Michael R. Haas,Derek Buzasi,Debra A. Fischer +51 more
TL;DR: The detection of a planet whose orbit surrounds a pair of low-mass stars, comparable to Saturn in mass and size and on a nearly circular 229-day orbit around its two parent stars, suggests that the planet formed within a circumbinary disk.