User support and news updates have transitioned to the NASA Astrophysics archives that host Kepler and K2 data — the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST) and the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute (NExScI). Below are ways to get updates from each archive, where to find useful information, and how to contact …
More »The Milkulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST) has created a page listing software related to the Kepler and K2 missions. The page includes a listing of software package, a brief description, the author(s), a link to the repository, and any associated references and/or documentation.
More »The K2 mission has created static PNG images for all of the K2 Full-Field Images (FFIs) from each campaign. These images have a flux scaling designed to highlight features that are likely to be of interest to users of the science data, such as bleed trails and reflections from bright …
More »The Milkulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST) has made data from the Kepler mission available on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The available data products include light curve files, target pixel files, and full frame images for all 17 quarters of Kepler observations. Access to this resource is also available through …
More »Almost two years ago we announced that we were undertaking an effort to reprocess campaigns 0–14 using the same version of the Kepler/K2 pipeline used for C15 and subsequent campaigns. This version introduced several new features and improvements, such as more sophisticated pixel calibration, better identification of spacecraft …
More »The Milkulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST) has created two pages dedicated to organizing Kepler and K2 mission documents.
Documents are organized into groups, listing the title of each document that links to the PDF, a brief description of its content/purpose, and citation information.
Users are likely to find …
More »A new tool for working with short- and long-cadence lightcurves has been released to the public under the NASA Open Source License, and made available for download via the NASA GitHub repository at https://github.com/nasa/K2CE.
Kepler/K2 Cadence Events (K2CE) is a Python data visualization and manipulation …
More »A year ago we announced that we were undertaking an effort to reprocess campaigns 0–14 using the same version of the Kepler/K2 pipeline used for C15 and subsequent campaigns. This version introduced several new features and improvements, such as more sophisticated pixel calibration, better identification of spacecraft pointing …
More »Previously we announced that some recently reprocessed short-cadence target pixel files from C2R, C3R, and C5R were incorrectly calibrated. We estimated that of the 474 short-cadence targets in those campaigns, 175 were possibly affected at any level, and ~25% of those 175 were affected at a non-negligible level.
At the …
More »About two years ago we announced the release of Kepler and K2 C0–C12 Fine Guidance Sensor (FGS) data. These data provide photometry and centroid positions for the guide stars that were used to main stable spacecraft pointing. These data contain the highest time sampling possible with Kepler, with integration …
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