New Discoveries from Kepler

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NASA's Kepler Mission is now into's eighth year of discovering new planets. This week, NASA held the fourth Kepler Science Conference at NASA Ames with important discoveries being announced there. Here's a rundown of a couple of the stories making the news and some insights into how these results fit into our emerging picture of exoplanets.

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► NASA Press Release "Hundreds of New Planet Candidates": https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-releases-kepler-survey-catalog-with-hundreds-of-new-planet-candidates ► Petigura et al. (2017), "The California-Kepler Survey. I. High Resolution Spectroscopy of 1305 Stars Hosting Kepler Transiting Planets": https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.10400 ► Johnson et al. (2017), "The California-Kepler Survey. II. Precise Physical Properties of 2025 Kepler Planets and Their Host Stars": https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.10402 ► Fulton et al. (2017), "The California-Kepler Survey. III. A Gap in the Radius Distribution of Small Planets": https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.10375 ► Cool Worlds Lab website: http://coolworlds.astro.columbia.edu ► Columbia University Department of Astronomy: http://www.astro.columbia.edu ► Outro music by Daft Punk "Harder, Better, Stronger, Faster": http://www.daftpunk.com and http://smarturl.it/DaftPunkiTunes

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