Angelo Notarnicola

NASA Kepler transit curves evaluation and approximation tool

Kepler is a telescope in operation since 2009 used for the discovery of new exoplanets.
Exoplanets are rocky planets with characteristics that may also be similar to terrestrial ones, but belonging to systems other than the solar one. Kepler's photometer is able to collect the light of stars from systems distant up to 3000 light years from the solar system
Using the collected data it is possible to deduce the presence of a planet and in certain cases also determine the size or characteristics of its motion.
The tool allows the loading of graphs taken from the site Zooniverse.org to then generate the approximations by means of the power2 lateral darkening law.
The approximations are generated by Taylor developments or by numerical integration techniques (Gaussian composite quadrature).
At the end of the computation it is possible to save the obtained numerical values and the generated graphs.