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Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific· 2014Q1

The K2 Mission: Characterization and Early Results

Steve B. Howell, Charlie Sobeck, Michael Haas, Martin Still et al.

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The K2 mission, repurposing the Kepler spacecraft, achieves early photometric precision of ~400 ppm (30 min) and 80 ppm (6 hours) at V=12, enabling new exoplanet and astrophysics observations.

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