Kepler Planet-Detection Mission: Introduction and First Results

Borucki, W. J.; Koch, David; Basri, Gibor; Batalha, Natalie M.; Brown, Timothy M.; Caldwell, Douglas A.; Caldwell, John; Christensen-Dalsgaard, Joørgen; Cochran, William D.; DeVore, Edna; Dunham, E. W.; Dupree, A. K.; Gautier, T. N.; Geary, John C.; Gilliland, Ronald L.; Gould, A.; Howell, Steve B.; Jenkins, Jon M.; Kondo, Y.; Latham, David W.; Marcy, Geoffrey W.; Meibom, S.; Kjeldsen, H.; Lissauer, Jack J.; Monet, D. G.; Morrison, David; Sasselov, Dimitar; Tarter, Jill; Boss, Alan P.; Brownlee, D. E.; Owen, T.; Buzasi, Derek L.; Charbonneau, David; Doyle, Laurance R.; Fortney, Jonathan J.; Ford, Eric B.; Holman, Matthew J.; Seager, Sara; Steffen, Jason H.; Welsh, William F.; Rowe, Jason F.; Anderson, Howard J; Buchhave, Lars A.; Ciardi, David R.; Walkowicz, Lucianne M.; Sherry, William; Horch, Elliott; Isaacson, Howard; Everett, Mark E.; Fischer, Debra A.; Torres, Guillermo; Johnson, John Asher; Endl, Michael; MacQueen, Phillip J.; Bryson, Stephen T.; Dotson, Jessie L.; Haas, Michael R.; Kolodziejczak, J.; Cleve, Jeffrey Van; Chandrasekaran, Hema; Twicken, Joseph D.; Quintana, Elisa V.; Clarke, Bruce; Allen, Christopher S.; Li, Jie; Wu, Haley; Tenenbaum, Peter; Verner, E. M.; Bruhweiler, F. C.; Barnes, Jason W.; Prša, Andrej

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“…With photometric precision orders of magnitudes better than on the ground, the Kepler mission (Borucki et al 2010) has contributed most to this growing field, from subEarth-radius worlds (Barclay et al 2013) to long-period gas giants (Wang et al 2013).…”

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Single transit candidates from K2: detection and period estimation

Osborn

Armstrong

Brown

et al. 2016

Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc.

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Photometric surveys such as Kepler have the precision to identify exoplanet and eclipsing binary candidates from only a single transit. K2, with its 75 d campaign duration, is ideally suited to detect significant numbers of single-eclipsing objects. Here we develop a Bayesian transit-fitting tool ('Namaste: An Mcmc Analysis of Single Transit Exoplanets') to extract orbital information from single transit events. We achieve favourable results testing this technique on known Kepler planets, and apply the technique to seven candidates identified from a targeted search of K2 campaigns 1, 2 and 3. We find EPIC203311200 to host an excellent exoplanet candidate with a period, assuming zero eccentricity, of 540 +410 −230 d and a radius of 0.51 ± 0.05R Jup . We also find six further transit candidates for which more follow-up is required to determine a planetary origin. Such a technique could be used in the future with TESS, PLATO and ground-based photometric surveys such as NGTS, potentially allowing the detection of planets in reach of confirmation by Gaia.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Single transit candidates from K2: detection and period estimation

Osborn

Armstrong

Brown

et al. 2016

Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc.

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“…At that point, the short timescale over which the mission had been operating continued to favour the discovery of giant planets with fast orbits that were too close to their host stars to be habitable. These included five giant planets with orbits of between 3.2 days and 4.9 days 4 . But the 306 planetary candidates released a few months later told a different story.…”

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Astronomy: Beyond the stars

Reich¹

2011

Nature

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“…Maceroni et al, 2009) and now Kepler. The Kepler satellite was launched in March 2009 and is dedicated to finding new extrasolar planets by the transit method (Borucki et al, 2010). The high-quality photometry it obtains is also excellent for performing asteroseismology and for studying eclipsing binaries.…”

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Space-Based Photometry of Eclipsing Binaries

Southworth¹

2011

Proc. IAU

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Abstract. I briefly review the history and prospects for the study of eclipsing binary star systems from space-based observatories. The benefits of shifting to space satellites lie in the high precision and cadence achievable, as well as the ability to access wavelength regions which are unattainable from the ground. Whilst small amounts of data on eclipsing binaries were obtained by the Voyager, IUE, OAO-II, Hipparcos and MOST, the more recent CoRoT and Kepler missions were the first to provide extensive data on large numbers of systems. The future holds the prospect of the PLATO satellite, which will go bigger, better and brighter.

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Kepler Planet-Detection Mission: Introduction and First Results

Cited by 3,204 publications

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Single transit candidates from K2: detection and period estimation

Single transit candidates from K2: detection and period estimation

Astronomy: Beyond the stars

Space-Based Photometry of Eclipsing Binaries

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