Kepler Instrument Handbook
(KIH)
Information about the design, performance, and operational constraints of the Kepler
telescope and detectors and an overview of the available pixel data sets.
Kepler Archive Manual v4.0
The Archive Manual describes the format and content of Kepler data products, and
describes archive search and retrieval tools.
The Kepler Input Catalog (KIC)
The KIC lists photometric and astrometric parameters for many sources in the Kepler FOV. The companion paper is Brown et al. (2011).
Release notes are provided by the Center for Astrophysics.
KEPLER DATA
Kepler Data Characteristics Handbook (KDCH)
The Data Characteristics Handbook provides a description of the systematic phenomena identified in the Kepler data, and an explanation for how these characteristics are currently handled by the data analysis pipeline. With each quarterly release of data and each release of reprocessed data, a set of Data Release Notes is produced that tabulates the phenomena unique to that data set. The motivation for this separation into static, explanatory text and a set of dynamic figures and tables is the hope that once the user becomes familiar with the Data Characteristics Handbook, with each quarterly release they need only peruse the short notes for that quarter.
Kepler Data Processing Handbook (KDPH)
The KDPH provides a detailed descriptions of the pipeline processing modules: target selection,
pixel sets, derivation of calibrated and corrected photometric time series, transit detection,
and validation of detected transits.
Data Release
Notes (DRN)
A technical note accompanies each data delivery to the MAST archive. Each note quantifies systematic issues specific to the pipeline processing and data quality of the delivery.
The MAST Data Release Notes page is the primary repository for the notes and
associated files. Below are links to the individual notes. The DRN provide critical information concerning the quality and nature of the data in concise form. Newcomers to the archive can understand the content of the DRNs by reading the Data Characteristics Handbook.
