Kepler and K2

The September 18 deadline for early registration, hotel reservation, & abstract submission for the K2SciCon is just a few days away. The K2 Science Conference is hosted by the LCOGT and will celebrate the science from the first year of the K2 mission in sunny Santa Barbara. Hotel rooms are currently ...

The Guest Observer Program solicitation for K2 occurs roughly twice per year and includes a call for multiple K2 campaigns. Given the proposal review timeline, and associated data processing and archive activities, there can be a significant delay between proposal submission and final target selection for each K2 campaign. To ...

The K2 Campaign 7 Target List has now been posted. In Campaign 7 there was a significant drop in the number of targets observed relative to previous campaigns. This drop was because the number of targets we can observe is a function of our on-board compression efficiency. The extremely dense ...

The K2 project have updated the dates we expect to release K2 data to the MAST. These revised dates are available from the K2 fields information website. Of particular note is our plan to release Campaign 5 data on Nov 20, 2015 and Campaign 6 data on Dec 28, 2015 ...

Target pixel files, light curves, and full frame images for Campaign 4 are available for download from the K2 data archive at MAST. In Campaign 4, 15,853 long cadence and 122 short cadence targets were observed. Additionally, large circular pixel masks were collected that cover bright 3-5 mag B-stars ...

The Kepler/K2 project office has been awarded 30 hours to use UIST on the UK Infrared Telescope, UKIRT, for spectroscopic characterization of K2 targets. The aim of the UKIRT program is to provide a uniform catalog of K-band spectra of K2 targets of interest, with a focus on cool ...

Campaign 3 target pixel files, light curves, and full frame images are now available for download from the K2 data archive.

The C3 target list included 16,375 standard long cadence and 55 standard short cadence targets. In addition, custom pixel apertures were collected along the trajectories of dwarf planet ...

The K2 mission, the repurposing of the prolific planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft, is an achievement that spans well beyond the NASA team and across the science and engineering communities. The resulting new scientific observation opportunities are a testament to ingenuity and teamwork, and we would like to help bring attention to ...

To assist folks with planning their K2 related activities (follow-up observing, graduate student work, etc.) we have made available the anticipated dates that we will archive pixel level and light curve data at the MAST for all K2 campaigns through to C13. These dates are subject to change due of ...

Data processing for K2 Campaign 3 is now complete and the pixel files are in the process of being transferred to the MAST archive. We anticipate that the data will become available to the public by July 15, 2015. This data release will include both pixel level data and project ...