Kepler K2 Ecliptic Plane Input Catalog Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Kepler K2 Project
  2. MAST
  3. Published by
    Space Telescope Science Institute Archive
Abstract
Launched in 2009, the Kepler Mission is surveying a region of our galaxy to determine what fraction of stars 
in our galaxy have planets and measure the size distribution of those exoplanets. 
Although Kepler completed its primary mission to determine the fraction of stars that have planets in 2013, 
it is continuing the search, using a more limited survey mode, under the new name K2. 

The K2 Ecliptic Plane Input Catalog is the primary source of information about 
objects observed as potential targets for the K2 mission, as the Kepler Input Catalog was used for the original Kepler mission. 
Keywords
  1. Exoplanet astronomy
  2. Stars
  3. Galaxies
  4. Exoplanets
  5. Variable stars
See also HTML
http://archive.stsci.edu/kepler/
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://archive.stsci.edu/kepler/k2_epic
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.17909/T93W28

Access

IVOA Cone Search SCS
For use with a cone search client (e.g., TOPCAT).
http://archive.stsci.edu/k2/epic/search.php?

History

2017-06-08T15:55:21Z
Resource record created

Contact

Name
Randy Thompson
E-Mail
archive@stsci.edu