1 / 12

K2 Kepler’s Second Mission

K2 Kepler’s Second Mission. Michael R. Haas Kepler Science Office Director. Mission Concept. Kepler’s Second Light: How K2 will work. Mission Concept. Continuously observe ~10,000 LC and ~100 SC targets for 75 days Turn to Earth and download science and engineering data

gad
Download Presentation

K2 Kepler’s Second Mission

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. K2Kepler’s Second Mission Michael R. Haas Kepler Science Office Director

  2. Mission Concept

  3. Kepler’s Second Light: How K2 will work

  4. Mission Concept • Continuously observe ~10,000 LC and ~100 SC targets for 75 days • Turn to Earth and download science and engineering data • Move ~83 days along ecliptic plane and begin another campaign

  5. Proposed Campaign Fields • K2 Mission invited to 2014 Senior Review • If approved, K2 science observations planned to start in June, 2014 • Project solicits input on proposed K2 fields by Feb 1, 2014 • http://keplerscience.arc.nasa.gov/k2

  6. Mission Performance

  7. Spacecraft Jitter K2 observation of 12th magnitude star taken from 30-min Full-Frame Image in Coarse Point Kepler Point-Spread Function in Fine Point Width of K2 point-spread function is only <5% larger than Kepler point-spread function across the entire field of view

  8. Photometric Precision • Light curve for 12th magnitude star from mid-Dec test • Drift over 6 days held to 3 pixels (with more improvements to come) • Median 6-hr photometric precision is 87 ppm s-clipped, detrended and normalized

  9. Science Yield

  10. Potential Targets? • Transiting planets • Pulsating stars • Rotating stars • Interacting stars • Binary stars • Open clusters • Stellar associations • Galaxies and SNe • AGN • Microlenses….

  11. Performance Demonstration • Full-length demonstration campaign will start around Mar 10 • FOV approximately RA = 06:47:00, Dec = +21:22:47 • Project is soliciting targets for this campaign, due date is Feb 1, 2014 • Details at Kepler booth and http://keplerscience.arc.nasa.gov/k2

  12. CONCLUDING SLIDE http://keplerscience.arc.nasa.gov/K2

More Related