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Monitoring young associations and open clusters with Kepler in two-wheel mode

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We outline a proposal to use the Kepler spacecraft in two-wheel mode to monitor a handful of young associations and open clusters, for a few weeks each. Judging from the experience of similar projects using ground-based telescopes and the CoRoT spacecraft, this program would transform our understanding of early stellar evolution through the study of pulsations, rotation, activity, the detection and characterisation of eclipsing binaries, and the possible detection of transiting exoplanets. Im...

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Physics
Sub department:
Astrophysics
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Author
Publication date:
2013-09-03
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Pubs id:
pubs:500265
UUID:
uuid:6148f3d5-d184-4149-9b92-78a200c2dfb8
Local pid:
pubs:500265
Source identifiers:
500265
Deposit date:
2015-01-28

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