Dr. David G. Koch Profile

Dr. David G. Koch

Astrophysicist, Deputy Principal Investigator at NASA Ames Research Ctr

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Publications (8)

Proceedings Article | 12 October 2004 Paper

Overview and status of the Kepler Mission

Dan Berry, Jon Jenkins, John Geary, Eric Bachtell, Ronald Gilliland, David Mayer, Ladd Gillis, David Latham, Michael Weiss, William Borucki, David Koch, Chris Stewart, Thomas Gautier, Dan Shafer, Charles Sobeck, Riley Duren, Edward Dunham, William Deininger, Chris Miller

Proceedings Volume 5487, (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.552346

KEYWORDS: Stars, Planets, Space operations, Photometry, Charge-coupled devices, Data centers, System on a chip, Aerospace engineering, Space telescopes, Signal to noise ratio

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Proceedings Article | 16 September 2004 Paper

Systems engineering for the Kepler Mission: a search for terrestrial planets

Daniel Peters, Thomas Gautier, David Koch, Rick Thompson, Jon Jenkins, Stephen Gunter, Alan Enos, David Mayer, Charles Sobeck, Riley Duren, Eric Bachtell, Karen Dragon, William Borucki, Adam Harvey

Proceedings Volume 5497, (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.550276

KEYWORDS: Systems engineering, Stars, Performance modeling, Space operations, Photometry, Signal to noise ratio, Data modeling, Data acquisition, Planets, Error analysis

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Proceedings Article | 24 February 2003 Paper

The Kepler mission's focal plane

Robert Philbrick, Christopher Stewart, John Geary, David Koch, Edward Dunham

Proceedings Volume 4854, (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.460265

KEYWORDS: Charge-coupled devices, Staring arrays, Sensors, Stars, Photometry, CCD image sensors, Electronics, Planets, Space operations, Point spread functions

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Proceedings Article | 24 February 2003 Paper

The Kepler mission: a wide-field-of-view photometer designed to determine the frequency of Earth-size planets around solar-like stars

David Koch, William Cochran, William Borucki, John Geary, Edward Dunham, Gibor Basri, Yoji Kondo, Ronald Gilliland, John Caldwell, David Latham, Jack Lissauer, Douglas Caldwell, Jon Jenkins

Proceedings Volume 4854, (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.460266

KEYWORDS: Planets, Stars, Photometry, Signal to noise ratio, Point spread functions, Planetary systems, Space operations, Data archive systems, Space telescopes, Sun

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Proceedings Article | 28 July 2000 Paper

CCD photometry tests for a mission to detect Earth-sized planets in the extended solar neighborhood

Jon Jenkins, Edward Dunham, Larry Webster, William Borucki, David Koch, Fred Witteborn

Proceedings Volume 4013, (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.394034

KEYWORDS: Stars, Charge-coupled devices, Planets, Photometry, Point spread functions, Space operations, Signal to noise ratio, Interference (communication), Cameras, Received signal strength

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Proceedings Article | 28 July 2000 Paper

Processing CCD images to detect transits of Earth-sized planets: maximizing sensitivity while achieving reasonable downlink requirements

William Borucki, Fred Witteborn, Mark Skinner, Steven Jordan, Edward Dunham, David Koch, Todd Updike, Jon Jenkins

Proceedings Volume 4013, (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.394035

KEYWORDS: Stars, Photometry, Signal to noise ratio, Space operations, Charge-coupled devices, Point spread functions, Numerical simulations, Planets, Image processing, Control systems

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Proceedings Article | 28 August 1998 Paper

Kepler: a space mission to detect earth-class exoplanets

David Koch, Harold Reitsema, Jon Jenkins, William Borucki, John Marriott, Larry Webster, Edward Dunham

Proceedings Volume 3356, (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.324482

KEYWORDS: Planets, Stars, Photometry, Space operations, Charge-coupled devices, Exoplanets, Analog electronics, Sun, Signal to noise ratio, Planetary systems

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Proceedings Article | 14 September 1994 Paper

Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite

Gisbert Winnewisser, David Neufeld, Patrick Thaddeus, Neal Erickson, David Hollenbach, Martin Harwit, Giovanni Fazio, Alexander Dalgarno, Volker Tolls, Gary Melnick, Rudolf Schieder, Ron Snell, David Koch, Paul Goldsmith, John Stauffer

Proceedings Volume 2268, (1994) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.185853

KEYWORDS: Clouds, Receivers, Oxygen, Mirrors, Carbon, Adaptive optics, Chemistry, Stars, Satellites, Spectroscopy

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