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Serendipitous science from the K2 mission
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Serendipitous science from the K2 mission

Derek, L Buzasi, Lindsey Carboneau, Carly Hessler, Andy Lezcano and Heather Preston
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, Vol.11(A29B), pp.673-679
08-2015

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The K2 mission is a repurposed use of the Kepler spacecraft to perform high-precision photometry of selected fields in the ecliptic. We have developed an aperture photometry pipeline for K2 data which performs dynamic automated aperture mask selection, background estimation and subtraction, and positional decorrelation to minimize the effects of spacecraft pointing jitter. We also identify secondary targets in the K2 “postage stamps” and produce light curves for those targets as well. Pipeline results will be made available to the community. Here we describe our pipeline and the photometric precision we are capable of achieving with K2, and illustrate its utility with asteroseismic results from the serendipitous secondary targets.
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https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743921316006335View
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