Kepler Planet-Detection Mission: Introduction and First Results (2010)
Borucki, William J., Koch, David, Basri, Gibor, Batalha, Natalie, Brown, Timothy, Caldwell, Douglas, ...
The Kepler mission was designed to determine the frequency of Earth-sized planets in and near the habitable zone of Sun-like stars. The habitable zone is the region where planetary temperatures are...
LSST Science Book, Version 2.0 (2009)
Abell, LSST Science Collaborations: Paul A., Allison, Julius, Anderson, Scott F., Andrew, John R., Angel, J. Roger P., Armus, Lee, ...
A survey that can cover the sky in optical bands over wide fields to faint magnitudes with a fast cadence will enable many of the exciting science opportunities of the next decade. The Large Synoptic...
The Impact of the Astro2010 Recommendations on Variable Star Science (2009)
Walkowicz, Lucianne M., Becker, Andrew C., Anderson, Scott F., Bloom, Joshua S., Georgiev, Leonid, Grindlay, Josh, ...
The next decade of survey astronomy has the potential to transform our knowledge of variable stars. Stellar variability underpins our knowledge of the cosmological distance ladder, and provides...
Eclipsing Binary Stars as Tests of Stellar Evolutionary Models and Stellar Ages (2009)
Stassun, Keivan G., Hebb, Leslie, Lopez-Morales, Mercedes, Prsa, Andrej
Eclipsing binary stars provide highly accurate measurements of the fundamental physical properties of stars. They therefore serve as stringent tests of the predictions of evolutionary models upon...
Pipeline Reduction of Binary Light Curves from Large-Scale Surveys (2007)
One of the most important changes in observational astronomy of the 21st Century is a rapid shift from classical object-by-object observations to extensive automatic surveys. As CCD detectors are...
Because of GAIA's estimated harvest of cca. 10^5 eclipsing binaries (Munari et al. 2001) automative procedures for extracting physical parameters from observations must be introduced. We present...