Kepler-62: A Five-Planet System with Planets of 1.4 and 1.6 Earth Radii in the Habitable Zone

William J. Borucki; Eric Agol; Francois Fressin; Lisa Kaltenegger; Jason Rowe; Howard Isaacson; Debra Fischer; Natalie Batalha; Jack J. Lissauer; Geoffrey W. Marcy; Daniel Fabrycky; Jean-Michel Désert; Stephen T. Bryson; Thomas Barclay; Fabienne Bastien; Alan Boss; Erik Brugamyer; Lars A. Buchhave; Chris Burke; Douglas A. Caldwell; Josh Carter; David Charbonneau; Justin R. Crepp; Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard; Jessie L. Christiansen; David Ciardi; William D. Cochran; Edna DeVore; Laurance Doyle; Andrea K. Dupree; Michael Endl; Mark E. Everett; Eric B. Ford; Jonathan Fortney; Thomas N. Gautier; John C. Geary; Alan Gould; Michael Haas; Christopher Henze; Andrew W. Howard; Steve B. Howell; Daniel Huber; Jon M. Jenkins; Hans Kjeldsen; Rea Kolbl; Jeffery Kolodziejczak; David W. Latham; Brian L. Lee; Eric Lopez; Fergal Mullally; Jerome A. Orosz; Andrej Prsa; Elisa V. Quintana; Roberto Sanchis-Ojeda; Dimitar Sasselov; Shawn Seader; Avi Shporer; Jason H. Steffen; Martin Still; Peter Tenenbaum; Susan E. Thompson; Guillermo Torres; Joseph D. Twicken; William F. Welsh; Joshua N. Winn

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Kepler-62: A Five-Planet System with Planets of 1.4 and 1.6 Earth Radii in the Habitable Zone

William J. Borucki¹,*,
Eric Agol²,
Francois Fressin³,
Lisa Kaltenegger³,⁴,
Jason Rowe⁵,
Howard Isaacson⁶,
Debra Fischer⁷,
Natalie Batalha¹,
Jack J. Lissauer¹,
Geoffrey W. Marcy⁶,
Daniel Fabrycky⁸,⁹,
Jean-Michel Désert³,
Stephen T. Bryson¹,
Thomas Barclay¹⁰,
Fabienne Bastien¹¹,
Alan Boss¹²,
Erik Brugamyer¹³,
Lars A. Buchhave¹⁴,¹⁵,
Chris Burke⁵,
Douglas A. Caldwell⁵,
Josh Carter³,
David Charbonneau³,
Justin R. Crepp¹⁶,¹⁷,
Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard¹⁸,
Jessie L. Christiansen⁵,
David Ciardi¹⁹,
William D. Cochran¹³,
Edna DeVore⁵,
Laurance Doyle⁵,
Andrea K. Dupree³,
Michael Endl¹³,
Mark E. Everett²⁰,
Eric B. Ford²¹,
Jonathan Fortney⁸,
Thomas N. Gautier III²²,
John C. Geary³,
Alan Gould²³,
Michael Haas¹,
Christopher Henze¹,
Andrew W. Howard²⁴,
Steve B. Howell¹,
Daniel Huber¹,
Jon M. Jenkins⁵,
Hans Kjeldsen¹⁸,
Rea Kolbl⁶,
Jeffery Kolodziejczak²⁵,
David W. Latham³,
Brian L. Lee²,
Eric Lopez⁸,
Fergal Mullally⁵,
Jerome A. Orosz²⁶,
Andrej Prsa²⁷,
Elisa V. Quintana⁵,
Roberto Sanchis-Ojeda³⁰,
Dimitar Sasselov³,
Shawn Seader⁵,
Avi Shporer⁸,²⁸,
Jason H. Steffen²⁹,
Martin Still¹⁰,
Peter Tenenbaum⁵,
Susan E. Thompson⁵,
Guillermo Torres³,
Joseph D. Twicken⁵,
William F. Welsh²⁶,
Joshua N. Winn³⁰

¹NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA.
²Department of Astronomy, Box 351580, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
³Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
⁴Max Planck Institute of Astronomy, Koenigstuhl 17, 69115 Heidelberg, Germany.
⁵SETI Institute, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
⁶University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
⁷Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
⁸Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA.
⁹Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
¹⁰Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA.
¹¹Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235, USA.
¹²Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, DC 20015, USA.
¹³McDonald Observatory, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712, USA.
¹⁴Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
¹⁵Centre for Star and Planet Formation, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, DK-1350 Copenhagen, Denmark.
¹⁶Department of Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.
¹⁷Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA.
¹⁸Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
¹⁹Exoplanet Science Institute/Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.
²⁰National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Tucson, AZ 85719, USA.
²¹University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.
²²Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA.
²³Lawrence Hall of Science, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
²⁴Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA.
²⁵Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL 35805, USA.
²⁶San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182, USA.
²⁷Villanova University, Villanova, PA 19085, USA.
²⁸Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope, Goleta, CA 93117, USA.
²⁹Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA.
³⁰Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

↵*Corresponding author. E-mail: william.j.borucki{at}nasa.gov

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Science 03 May 2013:
Vol. 340, Issue 6132, pp. 587-590
DOI: 10.1126/science.1234702

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Geoffrey W. Marcy

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Daniel Fabrycky

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Jean-Michel Désert

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Douglas A. Caldwell

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Josh Carter

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David Charbonneau

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Justin R. Crepp

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Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard

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Jessie L. Christiansen

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David Ciardi

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William D. Cochran

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Edna DeVore

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Michael Endl

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Martin Still

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Joseph D. Twicken

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