Althea V. Moorehead
University of Florida
2 Papers
Althea V. Moorehead is an academic researcher from University of Florida. The author has contributed to research in topics: Exoplanet & Light curve. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 2 publications.
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Kepler 's First Rocky Planet: Kepler-10b
Natalie M. Batalha,William J. Borucki,Stephen T. Bryson,Lars A. Buchhave,Douglas A. Caldwell,Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard,Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard,David R. Ciardi,Edward W. Dunham,Francois Fressin,Thomas N. Gautier,Ronald L. Gilliland,Michael R. Haas,Steve B. Howell,Jon M. Jenkins,Hans Kjeldsen,David G. Koch,David W. Latham,Jack J. Lissauer,Geoffrey W. Marcy,Jason F. Rowe,Dimitar Sasselov,Sara Seager,Jason H. Steffen,Guillermo Torres,Gibor Basri,Timothy M. Brown,David Charbonneau,Jessie L. Christiansen,Bruce D. Clarke,William D. Cochran,Andrea K. Dupree,Daniel C. Fabrycky,Debra A. Fischer,Eric B. Ford,Jonathan J. Fortney,Forrest R. Girouard,Matthew J. Holman,John Asher Johnson,Howard Isaacson,Todd C. Klaus,P. Machalek,Althea V. Moorehead,Robert C. Morehead,Darin Ragozzine,Peter Tenenbaum,Joseph D. Twicken,Samuel N. Quinn,J. VanCleve,Lucianne M. Walkowicz,William F. Welsh,Edna DeVore,Alan Gould +52 more
TL;DR: The first Earth-size exoplanet was discovered by NASA's Kepler mission as discussed by the authors, which used transit photometry to determine the frequency of Earthsize planets in or near the habitable zone of Sun-like stars.
KEPLER's First Rocky Planet: Kepler-10b
Natalie M. Batalha,William J. Borucki,Stephen T. Bryson,Lars A. Buchhave,Douglas A. Caldwell,Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard,Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard,David R. Ciardi,Edward W. Dunham,Francois Fressin,Thomas N. Gautier,Ronald L. Gilliland,Michael R. Haas,Steve B. Howell,Jon M. Jenkins,Hans Kjeldsen,David G. Koch,David W. Latham,Jack J. Lissauer,Geoffrey W. Marcy,Jason F. Rowe,Dimitar Sasselov,Sara Seager,Jason H. Steffen,Guillermo Torres,Gibor Basri,Timothy M. Brown,David Charbonneau,Jessie L. Christiansen,Bruce D. Clarke,William D. Cochran,Andrea K. Dupree,Daniel C. Fabrycky,Debra A. Fischer,Eric B. Ford,Jonathan J. Fortney,Forrest R. Girouard,Matthew J. Holman,John Asher Johnson,Howard Isaacson,Todd C. Klaus,P. Machalek,Althea V. Moorehead,Robert C. Morehead,Darin Ragozzine,Peter Tenenbaum,Joseph D. Twicken,Samuel N. Quinn,J. VanCleve,Lucianne M. Walkowicz,William F. Welsh,Edna DeVore,Alan Gould +52 more
TL;DR: For example, Kepler-10b is the smallest transiting exoplanet discovered to date as mentioned in this paper, which is the first Earth-like planet discovered in the habitable zone of a Sun-like star.