The NASA Kepler mission / edited by Steve B. Howell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Howell, Steve B., editor.

Institute of Physics (Great Britain), publisher.

Series:

AAS-IOP astronomy. Release 2.

AAS-IOP astronomy. [release 2], 2514-3433

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kepler (Spacecraft).

United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

United States.

Space telescopes--United States.

Space telescopes.

Outer space--Exploration.

Outer space.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color).

Other Title:

National Aeronautics and Space Administration Kepler mission.

Place of Publication:

Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2020]

System Details:

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text file

Biography/History:

Dr. Steve B Howell is a senior research scientist at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. He was formerly the head of the Space Science and Astrobiology Division and the project scientist for NASA's premier exoplanet finding missions: Kepler and K2. Dr. Howell has written over 800 scientific publications, numerous popular and technical articles, and has authored and edited ten books on astronomy and astronomical instrumentation.

Summary:

The NASA Kepler and K2 missions have made fundamental, paradigm changing advances in essentially every area of astrophysics and planetary science. While known for their breakthrough discoveries in exoplanets--especially small rocky worlds orbiting in the Habitable Zone of their host suns--these missions have also continued to make numerous scientific advances in solar system science, stellar astrophysics and extragalactic astronomy. This book is devoted to the Kepler and K2 missions and covers the tremendous new discoveries made in the areas of spacecraft engineering, asteroseismology, binary and variable stars, stellar astrophysics, white dwarfs, asteroids and comets, active galaxies, supernovae, black holes, and of course exoplanets of all types. It is suitable for the interested layperson, pupils of science and space missions, and advanced science students and researchers wishing for an introduction and highly focused memoir of the NASA Kepler mission and its amazing accomplishments.

Contents:

1. Prelude

2. The NASA Kepler and K2 missions / John Troeltzsch and Steve B. Howell

3. Exoplanets / Jessie L. Christiansen, Stephen R. Kane, Susan E. Mullally, Steve B. Howell, David R. Ciardi, Calen B. Henderson, Andrew M. Vanderburg, Fergal Mullally and Rachel Street

4. Stellar astrophysics with Kepler and K2 / William J. Chaplin, J.J. Hermes, Ann Marie Cody, Elliott P. Horch, Rachel A. Matson, Steven D. Kawaler, Steve B. Howell and David R. Ciardi

5. The solar system as observed by K2 / Csaba Kiss, László Molnár, András Pál and Steve B. Howell

6. Extragalactic studies from the Kepler/K2 missions / Krista Lynne Smith, Armin Rest, Peter Garnavich and Steve B. Howell.

Notes:

"Version: 20200901"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Title from PDF title page (viewed on October 5, 2020).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9780750322966

9780750322959

OCLC:

1199054230

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.