Program: GN-2015B-LP-5
Title: | Validating K2’s Habitable and Rocky Planets with AO Imaging |
PI: | Ian Crossfield |
Co-I(s): | Charles Beichman, Steve Howell, Erik Petigura, David Ciardi, Joshua Schlieder, Justin Crepp, Evan Sinukoff, Andrew Howard |
Abstract
K2, the repurposed Kepler mission, offers a golden opportunity to find a wide diversity of new planetary systems orbiting bright stars. We are executing a large-scale collaboration using K2, the updated Kepler mission, to find these new systems around all stellar types in the K2 fields. We anticipate finding dozens of potential targets suitable for atmospheric studies with HST and JWST, and many more for which RV spectrosopy will further elucidate the low-mass planetary mass-radius relation. Over the next two years, we request four nights per semester to eliminate false positives and continue validating our K2 planetary systems using GNIRS AO imaging and our DSSI Speckle Camera. Eventually, our program will measure the occurrence rates of planets across the sky, optimize target selection strategies for TESS, and find exciting new targets for early-science JWST atmospheric characterization.
Publications using this program's data
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[ADS] 197 Candidates and 104 Validated Planets in K2’s First Five Fields
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[ADS] Four Sub-Saturns with Dissimilar Densities: Windows into Planetary Cores and Envelopes
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[ADS] K2 Discovers a Busy Bee: An Unusual Transiting Neptune Found in the Beehive Cluster
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[ADS] Characterizing K2 Candidate Planetary Systems Orbiting Low-Mass Stars II: Planetary Systems Observed During Campaigns 1-7
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[ADS] K2-114b and K2-115b: Two Transiting Warm Jupiters
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[ADS] 275 Candidates and 149 Validated Planets Orbiting Bright Stars in K2 Campaigns 0–10
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[ADS] The K2-138 System: A Near-resonant Chain of Five Sub-Neptune Planets Discovered by Citizen Scientists
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[ADS] Ultra-short-period Planets in K2. III. Neighbors are Common with 13 New Multiplanet Systems and 10 Newly Validated Planets in Campaigns 0-8 and 10