Kepler Channel Noise Problem

necessary more information about the scale problem....

Now I would be happy at only half of the photometry of the plan (50 000 stars), the main thing that the accuracy was within 20 ppm as promised and began observing since Christmas

Sirius,

The person to contact would be David Koch. He's the one in charge of the instrumentation. I'll try him as well.

I think the people on this forum will be happy with Jupiters, the general public not so much.

Most people are of the view that Kepler should produce 50-100 earth like planets. They have been force fed this by the media and the science team. What happens when they are told this is not so. They have an attention span of 5 minutes.

There is a reason that all those missions you mentioned are dead with no tears shed. It is exactly due to C@%P like this. Keep us involved or your else... is their attitude.

We wouldn't have to speculate and depend on these info leaks if the science team would take 10 minutes to clarify the situation properly. Something they have known about for months if not years. How come they never mentioned this in all the previous contacts forum members have had with them?

The public is willing to tolerate some spectacular failures if there is full disclosure.

Indeed, Mr. Koch is the one who I e-mailed. I hope he isn't too busy. And yeah, the public's view is worrying. They were promised Earths, from a variety of sources.

Borislav,

Again agree.

Original design = 1.4x10 -5 = 14 parts per million.

Hubble = 6x10 -6 = 6 parts per million

present IMO = 120 parts per million.

Needed for Earth = 80 parts per million

So HST can detect a transiting Earth? I didn't expect that.

Sorry, I could sound naive, but is it possible to rename and shift this discussion in Detection Methods and Projects.

I mean, this thread has taken 10 pages for discussion about Kepler results, but so far I've heard nothing Kepler has detected or discovered.

Yeah, fair enough. Give me a sec while I round up the posts.

Of course getting enough time on HST for doing that kind of detection is another matter

Putting my moderator hat on here, remember if you are contacting the Kepler team to make sure you have permission to quote them before posting quotes from private emails.

Sirius_Alpha wrote:Yeah, fair enough. Give me a sec while I round up the posts.

Indeed Corot results has taken a similar number of thread pages but discusses about detections.

So far Kepler seems having collected data and working not so good too.

Thank you for the attention

Also HST field of view much smaller

Edasich wrote:Thank you for the attention

Any time =)

Edit:

Lazarus wrote:Putting my moderator hat on here, remember if you are contacting the
Kepler team to make sure you have permission to quote them before
posting quotes from private emails.

I second that.

If not hard to ask a question William Borucki directly in the comments?

http://blogs.discovery.com/space_disco/2009/10/keplers-exoplanet-hunt-on-hold-until-2011.html
I can not, bad English.

Borislav, at least two of the people on this forum have already attempted contact with the Kepler team. I am sure we will hear something soon.

I have received email back from the Kepler team, I'm going to request quoting permissions, but the short story is that the doom-and-gloom scenarios are incorrect. Things are not nearly as bad as the news articles and posts upthread are making out.

More on this to come later...

Thanks, really good to hear and I look forward to hearing more.