Christopher Burke
Kepler SO Support Scientist
Institution:
SETI Institute
Summary
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Measuring Transit Signal Recovery in the Kepler Pipeline. III. Completeness of the Q1-Q17 DR24 Planet Candidate Catalogu...
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Published in The Astrophysical Journal
With each new version of the Kepler pipeline and resulting planet candidate catalogue, an updated measurement of the underlying planet population can only be recovered with an corresponding measurement of the Kepler pipeline detection efficiency. Here, we present measurements of the sensitivity of the pipeline (version 9.2) used to generate the Q1-...
Detection of Potential Transit Signals in 17 Quarters of Kepler Data: Results of the Final Kepler Mission Transiting Pla...
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Published in arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.06140
We present results of the final Kepler Data Processing Pipeline search for transiting planet signals in the full 17-quarter primary mission dataset. The search includes a total of 198,709 stellar targets of which 112,046 were observed in all 17 quarters and 86,663 in fewer than 17 quarters. We report on 17,230 targets for which at least one transit...
Identifying False Alarms in the Kepler Planet Candidate Catalog
Published in arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.03204
We present a new automated method to identify instrumental features masquerading as small, long period planets in thecandidate catalog. These systematics, mistakenly identified as planet transits, can have a strong impact on occurrence rate calculations because they cluster in a region of parameter space where Kepler s sensitivity to planets is poo...
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Planetary Candidates Observed by V: Planet Sample from Q1-Q12 (36 Months)
...Published in arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.07286
The Kepler mission discovered 2842 exoplanet candidates with 2 years of data. We provide updates to the Kepler planet candidate sample based upon 3 years (Q1-Q12) of data. Through a series of tests to exclude false-positives, primarily caused by eclipsing binary stars and instrumental systematics, 855 additional planetary candidates have been disco...
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Kepler Data Release 21 Notes (KSCI-19061-001)
...Published in Kepler mission
These Data Release Notes provide information specific to the current reprocessing and re-export of Q0–Q14 data. Specifically, this data release provides an improved version of the PDC light curves and corrects the barycentric times so they include the conversion to TDB (Barycentric Dynamical Time). As such, these Notes are an addendum to the Data R...
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Automatic Classification of Kepler Threshold Crossing Events
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The Kepler Science Operations Center detects interesting, exoplanet transit-like signals while searching over 211,000 distinct light curves. The mission has produced four catalogs of interesting objects with planet transit-like features known as Kepler Objects of Interest (KOI). The total number of objects with transit-like features identified in t...
Transit Model Fitting in the Kepler Science Operations Center Pipeline
We describe the algorithm and performance of the transit model fitting of the Kepler Science Operations Center (SOC) Pipeline. Light curves of long cadence targets are subjected to the Transiting Planet Search (TPS) component of the Kepler SOC Pipeline. Those targets for which a Threshold Crossing Event (TCE) is generated in the transit search are ...
Planet Population Statistics With Kepler Q1-Q16: Stellar Effective Temperature Dependence
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We explore extrasolar planet population statistics and the dependence of planet occurrence rates on stellar effective temperature from analysis of the Kepler Q1-Q16 planet candidate sample. The analysis takes advantage of the recent work on the Q1-Q16 Kepler planet candidate sample, extensive Monte-Carlo transit signal injection and recovery tests ...
