The Distribution of Transit Durations for Kepler Planet Candidates and Implications for Their Orbital Eccentricities

Althea Moorhead, Eric B. Ford, Robert Morehead, J. Rowe, W. J. Borucki, N. M. Batalha, S. T. Bryson, D. A. Caldwell, D. C. Fabrycky, III, T. N. Gautier, D. G. Koch, M. J. Holman, J. M. Jenkins, J. Li, J. J. Lissauer, P. Lucas, G. W. Marcy, S. N. Quinn, E. Quintana, Darin Ragozzine, A. Shporer, M. Still, G. Torres
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planets and satellites: fundamental parameters
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Althea Moorhead
Space Scientist

I’m a civil servant in NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office, and my work involves a combination of data analysis, dynamical modeling, and software programming. I’m the current lead developer of the Meteoroid Engineering Model, a piece of software that simulates the meteoroid environment encountered by spacecraft. I also forecast meteor shower activity using numerical simulations of meteoroid streams and by fitting the activity profiles of past meteor showers. I sometimes study special environments; for example, I created an early model of the coma of Comet Siding Spring during its close encounter with Mars.