Hunt for Exomoons with Kepler
| Established | December 30, 2011 |
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| Research type | Basic |
Field of research | Astrophysics |
Principal investigator | David Kipping |
| Staff | Gáspár Bakos Lars Buchhave Joel Hartman David Nesvorný Allan Schmitt |
| Nickname | HEK |
| Affiliations | Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian |
The Hunt for Exomoons with Kepler (HEK) was a project whose aim was to search for exomoons, natural satellites of exoplanets, using data collected by the Kepler space telescope. Founded by British exomoonologist David Kipping and affiliated with the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, HEK submitted its first paper on June 30, 2011. HEK later submitted five additional papers from 2013 to 2017. In July 2017, it found some evidence for an exomoon around Kepler-1625b.