Kepler News and Results

Lazarus wrote:

KOI-200b and KOI-889b: two transiting exoplanets detected and characterized with Kepler, SOPHIE and HARPS-N
http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.6002

A couple of jovian-size planets in close-in orbits.

And highly eccentric too. One of them has got to match with Kepler-71b.

Do we have a Kepler-36 thread? Paper attempting to model the formation of the Kepler-36 system, with closely-spaced orbits and high density contrast.

Origin Scenarios for the Kepler 36 Planetary System
http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.6124

Testing the Metal of Late-Type Kepler Planet Hosts with Iron-Clad Methods
http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.7269

Suggests that the lower occurrence of gas giants around M-dwarfs is to timescales (disc evaporation or accretion) rather than lack of solids.

http://www.space.com/20889-nasa-alien-planet-telescope-health.html

Is the satellite still alive for 2 months only ?

« …"The part that worries us is that the elevated friction that we're seeing in wheel number four now is very reminiscent of what we saw a year ago in wheel number two, which eventually failed," said Kepler deputy project manager Charlie Sobeck, also of NASA Ames.
"Wheel two had elevated friction for about six months, a little bit more than that, before it finally failed," Sobeck told SPACE.com. "Now we're going on four months of elevated friction here on wheel number four. So we're certainly concerned that we may be on the same kind of path here…"


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