Kepler Conference

I am at the five day Kepler conference at NASA's Ames Research Centre in support of the work I am doing. I am sure that you have heard of the discovery of Kepler 22b but I thought I would fill everyone in on other things happening with the Kepler data. First the number of planet candidates found by Kepler is now over 2200 and this number is going to increase, a few people are predicting to over 4000, on the January release of data. Keep in mind that the team is only looking at ~150 000 stars in the spacecraft's field of view. The nice thing about the data on these stars is that it is nearly continuous with only a few breaks for down loads, transmissions, and craft rotation. This means that this is an unprecedented data set offering binary star, asteroseismology, starspot, star flare etc. researchers important data. Because of this the conference was divided into planetary and astrophysics. Some of this research is cutting edge due the the length and quality of data. There are many great talks if you are interested learning more talk to me at the next meeting or here is the web like to the conference:

http://kepler.nasa.gov/Science/ForScientists/keplerconference/?CFID...