This article goes over the key purposes and methods of the Kepler Telescope mission (launched in 2009). The Kepler mission sought to gauge a more-accurate scale of exoplanets near the Milky Way. The mission was a huge accomplishment, discovering thousands of exoplanets by surveying several stars and detecting exoplanet-like transits. This article simply explains how the transit method operates and how astronomers are able to detect these transits. Steve Bryson introduced me to this site when we first began working with exoplanet data to provide some background to our work.

Johnson, M. Kepler and K2: Mission Overview, 2018. NASA. https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/overview/index.html (accessed March 24, 2021).

This is the first page of a research paper Steve Bryson, Kylar Flynn, and I wrote. Throughout the year we've analyzed different sets of TCEs (threshold crossing events), and this paper goes over how we classified TCEs as potential planet candidates. The TCEs we looked at, in particular, were characterized as false-positives following the Robovetter tests. After careful speculation, however, we were able to find a few TCEs showing strong, positive signals.