What is the policy for public release of images over the whole Kepler field of view (“Full Frame Images”) and calibration files?
The Kepler Project has released 8 so-called Golden FFIs from the commissioning period and continues to release others as they become available, typically at a rate of one per month. All calibration files, which are known as the Focal Plane Characterization Model, are public. Users should note that the calibration is applied across the field of view, not on a target by target basis. Thus the Focal Plane Characterization Model is applied to cadence data, not light curve or target pixel data. The times of the FPC Model and the FFI files are expressed as MJD (at mid-cadence). • May I request data over arbitrary lengths of time, assuming the data for that target is non-proprietary? Yes, but note well how the time is specified. Recall that light curves are produced on a quarterly basis. If the input start time in the query falls within a quarter, all light curves whose start times occur before the input start time and whose end times occur after the input start time, will be missed. For exam
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