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Hi, Dacmess!

Thanks for your contributions! Is there a summary somewhere of what Kepler data has been released? Presumably, the full data set is the light curves of all 150,000 stars or so. How much of this has been released? In particular, from the 997 candidate systems already announced, what data is available? Thanks for any help you can give, LouScheffer (talk) 00:13, 25 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Lou, after reading the Wikipedia help on talk pages, I'm still not sure whether to respond here or on your talk page. I'll try here for now. All data taken through Quarter-2 is publicly available (with the possible exception of some guest observer targets, though I think those are all public through Q2, too). For data taken since Q2, those targets that have publications using data that is post-Q2 have that data public, too. As for the 997 candidate systems, the data release paper used data up to Q2, so post-Q2 data for those weren't released in bulk. There are some of them that have been published separately and those data are public; perhaps only those three you mentioned so far, but more are coming. Unfortunately, I don't know of an easy way to find out the status of that list of systems. Probably the easiest is to make a bulk search request at the (MAST file-upload form using the Kepler-IDs of those systems (see the host star table at: http://kepler.nasa.gov/Mission/discoveries/candidates/). Set one of the user specified fields to Quarter >2 and you should be able to see what is public past Q2. Note I haven't actually tried this this!