NanoKepler -- Hunting for Planets with Kepler

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Based on materials originally developed by Kaspar von Braun (NStED/IPAC) for the 2010 Sagan Exoplanet Workshop. This group project was entitled "Hunting for Planets with Kepler."

Introduction

The basic scenario here is that we have a very small Kepler mission analog -- a "nanoKepler", if you will. You have photometric light curves of 50-100 Kepler targets.

Goals

Find and characterize the transiting exoplanets within them. Are there any 'false positives'? (hint: yes) What are they, or could they be? What other kinds of variable sources can you find and identify? What can you say about the variability characteristics of the dataset as a whole?

Tools

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