During a scheduled contact on Thursday, April 7, mission operations engineers discovered that the Kepler spacecraft was in Emergency Mode (EM). As a result, the start of K2 Campaign 9 is delayed.

Updates will be provided via the Mission Manager Updates.

Short cadence target pixel files for K2 Campaign 6 are now available for download from the K2 data archive at MAST.

Whilst data for 28,289 long cadence targets in C6 were already released two weeks ago, the data for the 84 short cadence targets were delayed slightly to allow …

Long cadence target pixel files and light curves for K2 Campaign 6 are now available for download from the K2 data archive at MAST.

The short cadence data will follow in approximately two weeks, to allow the pixel calibration issue that we described last week to be resolved.

The Campaign …

A K2 Guest Observer notified the Kepler Science Center in November 2015 of a puzzling difference between the short- and long-cadence calibrated pixel data for a specific K2 target.

After investigation, the problem was traced to an accounting error for the short-cadence collateral smear data. Under some conditions, these data …

K2 users are alerted to a small but necessary adjustment in the position of Campaigns 11, 12, and 13, for which target proposals are currently being solicited as part of the K2 Guest Observer Cycle 4.

The change, explained below, alters ~0.2% of sky area covered and is unlikely …

Data processing for K2 Campaign 6 is now complete and the pixel files are in the process of being shipped to the MAST archive. We anticipate that the data will become available to the public by February 11, 2016.

The Campaign 6 target list included 28,289 standard long cadence …

Proposals for targets to be observed by K2 in Campaigns 11, 12, and 13 are currently being solicited as part of K2 Guest Observer Cycle 4. Step 1 submissions for these proposals are due on February 5, 2016.

The fields of these campaigns will cover roughly 100 square degrees at …

Proposals for targets to be observed by K2 in Campaigns 11, 12, and 13 are currently being solicited as part of K2 Guest Observer Cycle 4. Mandatory Step 1 submissions for these proposals are due on February 5, 2016, followed by a Step 2 deadline on March 4th, 2016.

Proposals …

The K2 mission will be the subject of a special session at the 227th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in Kissimmee, Florida, next month.

On Tuesday evening, 5 Jan 2016, between 7:30 and 9:00 pm in room "Sun A", we will update the audience on the …

Target pixel files, light curves, and full frame images for Campaign 5 are now available for download from the K2 data archive at MAST.

In Campaign 5, 25,850 long cadence and 204 short cadence targets were observed. We additionally collected large pixel masks over dwarf planet (126154) 2001 YH140 …