Hunt for Exomoons with Kepler

Hunt for Exomoons with Kepler
EstablishedDecember 30, 2011 (2011-12-30)
Research typeBasic
Field of research
Astrophysics
Principal investigator
David Kipping
StaffGáspár Bakos
Lars Buchhave
Joel Hartman
David Nesvorný
Allan Schmitt
NicknameHEK
AffiliationsCenter for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
Websitewww.cfa.harvard.edu/HEK/[dead link]

The Hunt for Exomoons with Kepler (HEK) is a project whose aim is to search for exomoons, natural satellites of exoplanets, using data collected by the Kepler space telescope. Founded by British exomoonologist David Kipping and affiliated with the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, HEK submitted its first paper on June 30, 2011.[1] HEK has since submitted five more papers, finding some evidence for an exomoon around a planet orbiting Kepler-1625b in July 2017.[2]

  1. ^ Hunt for Exomoons with Kepler (15 June 2013). "News Archive". Hunt for Exomoons with Kepler. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 11 July 2013.
  2. ^ Teachey, Alex; Kipping, David M.; Schmitt, Allan R. (2017). "HEK VI: On the Dearth of Galilean Analogs in Kepler and the Exomoon Candidate Kepler-1625b I". The Astronomical Journal. 155 (1): 36. arXiv:1707.08563. Bibcode:2018AJ....155...36T. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/aa93f2. S2CID 118911978.