Kepler Input Catalog

The Kepler SCP targets were observed by the 2MASS project as well as Sloan filters, such as the griz filters.

{{cite web

|date=18 September 2009

|title=FAQ: What is the Spectral Classification Program (SCP)?

|url=http://archive.stsci.edu/mast_faq.php?mission=KEPLER#45

|publisher=Multimission Archive at STScI

|access-date=12 September 2011

}} The catalog alone is not used for finding Kepler targets, because only a portion (about 1/3 of the catalog) can be observed by the spacecraft. The full catalog includes up to 21 magnitude, giving 13.2 million targets, but of these only about 6.5 to 4.5 million fall on Kepler's sensors.

KIC is one of the few comprehensive star catalogs for a spacecraft's field of view.

{{cite journal

|last=Beatty |first=T. G.

|date=2009

|title=Predicting the Yield of Photometric Surveys

|journal=Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union

|volume=4 |issue=S243 |pages=63–69

|arxiv=0807.0250

|bibcode=2009IAUS..253...63B

|doi=10.1017/S1743921308026240

|s2cid=118580770

}} The KIC was created because no catalog of sufficient depth and information existed for target selection at that time.

{{cite journal

|last=Borucki |first=W.

|display-authors=etal

|date=2008

|journal=Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union

|volume=3 |issue=S249 |pages=17–24

|bibcode=2008IAUS..249...17B

|doi=10.1017/S174392130801630X

|title=Finding Earth-size planets in the habitable zone: The Kepler Mission

|doi-access=free

}} The catalog includes "mass, radius, effective temperature, log (g), metallicity, and reddening extinction".

An example of a KIC catalog entry is KIC #10227020. Having had transit signals detected for this star, it has become a Kepler Object of Interest, with the designation KOI-730.

{{cite journal

|last1=Borucki |first1=W.

|display-authors=etal

|date=2011

|title=Characteristics of planetary candidates observed by Kepler, II: Analysis of the first four months of data

|journal=The Astrophysical Journal

|volume=736 |issue=1 |pages=19

|arxiv=1102.0541

|bibcode= 2011ApJ...736...19B

|doi=10.1088/0004-637X/736/1/19

|s2cid=15233153

}} The planets around the star are confirmed, so the star has the Kepler catalog designation Kepler-223.

Not all star Kepler Input Catalog stars with confirmed planets get a Kepler Object of Interest designation. The reason is that sometimes transit signals are detected by observations that were not made by the Kepler team. An example of one of these objects is Kepler-78b.{{cite web|url=http://www.kepler.nasa.gov/Mission/discoveries/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527104316/http://kepler.nasa.gov/Mission/discoveries/ |archive-date=27 May 2010 |url-status=dead |publisher=NASA |title=Kepler Discoveries |access-date=15 June 2017}}

KIC 8462852 is a binary star whose primary shows a mysterious transit profile. The origin of this profile is uncertain, with proposed explanations ranging from an uneven dust ring to a Dyson swarm or similar alien megastructure.{{cite journal |last1=Clemens |first1=D. P. |last2=Maheshwari |first2=K. |last3=Jagani |first3=R. |last4=Montgomery |first4=J. |last5=Batal |first5=A. M. E. |last6=Ellis |first6=T. G. |last7=Wright |first7=J. T. |date=2018 |title=Proper Motion of the Faint Star near KIC 8462852 (Boyajian's Star)—Not a Binary System |journal=The Astrophysical Journal Letters |volume=856 |issue=1 |pages=l8 | doi=10.3847/2041-8213/aab492|arxiv=1803.03299 |bibcode=2018ApJ...856L...8C |s2cid=119402164 |doi-access=free }}{{cite news |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/10/the-most-interesting-star-in-our-galaxy/410023/ |title=The Most Mysterious Star in Our Galaxy |work=The Atlantic |last=Andersen |first=Ross |date=13 October 2015 |access-date=13 October 2015}}

KIC 9832227 is a contact binary and an eclipsing binary with a period of about 11 hours.{{Cite arXiv|last=Kinemuchi|first=Karen|date=2013-10-01|title=To Pulsate or to Eclipse? Status of KIC 9832227 Variable Star |class=astro-ph.SR|eprint=1310.0544 }}

KIC 11026764 is a G-type subgiant star whose asteroseismology has been studied extensively by Kepler. It shows weak variability with a period of about 1100 seconds.{{citation|arxiv=2005.06460|year=2020|title=Asteroseismology of 36 Kepler subgiants – I. Oscillation frequencies, linewidths, and amplitudes|doi=10.1093/mnras/staa1335|last1=Li|first1=Yaguang|last2=Bedding|first2=Timothy R.|last3=Li|first3=Tanda|last4=Bi|first4=Shaolan|last5=Stello|first5=Dennis|last6=Zhou|first6=Yixiao|last7=White|first7=Timothy R.|journal=Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society|volume=495|issue=2|pages=2363–2386|doi-access=free }}

{{vanchor|KIC 9246715}} is an eclipsing binary system consisting of two red giants. The primary component of the system has a radius of {{val|8.37|0.03|0.07|ul=Solar radius}} a mass of {{val|2.171|0.006|0.008|ul=Solar mass}}, and a temperature of {{val|4930|140|230|ul=K}}, while the secondary component has a radius of {{val|8.3|0.04|0.03|u=Solar radius}}, a mass of {{val|2.149|0.006|0.008|u=Solar mass}} and the same temperature.{{Cite journal |last1=Rawls |first1=Meredith L. |last2=Gaulme |first2=Patrick |last3=McKeever |first3=Jean |last4=Jackiewicz |first4=Jason |last5=Orosz |first5=Jerome A. |last6=Corsaro |first6=Enrico |last7=Beck |first7=Paul G. |last8=Mosser |first8=Benoît |last9=Latham |first9=David W. |last10=Latham |first10=Christian A. |date=February 2016 |title=Kic 9246715: The Double Red Giant Eclipsing Binary with Odd Oscillations |journal=The Astrophysical Journal |language=en |volume=818 |issue=2 |pages=108 |doi=10.3847/0004-637X/818/2/108 |doi-access=free |arxiv=1601.00038 |bibcode=2016ApJ...818..108R |issn=0004-637X}} Both stars orbit each other at a distance of {{Convert|294000000|km|AU|abbr=in}}, completing one orbit every 171 days.

KIC 11145123 is one of the more interesting non-KOI objects in the list. An A-type main-sequence star with unusually slow rotation for its high mass, it is currently believed to be the roundest natural object.{{Cite web|title=Kepler 11145123 is Most Spherical Natural Object Ever Seen, Astronomers Say {{!}} Astronomy {{!}} Sci-News.com|url=http://www.sci-news.com/astronomy/kepler-11145123-most-spherical-natural-object-04378.html|access-date=2021-04-26|website=Breaking Science News {{!}} Sci-News.com|date=18 November 2016 |language=en-US}}

• Kepler object of interest (KOI)
• Hubble Guide Star Catalog
• Tabby's Star

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• [http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/software/catalogs/kic.html Kepler Input Catalog (SAO)]

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