Fergal Mullally
Kepler Science Officer
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-...
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...
Planetary Candidates Observed by Kepler. VII. The First Fully Uniform Catalog Based on The Entire 48 Month Dataset (Q1-Q...
...Published in arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.06149
We present the seventh Kepler planet candidate catalog, which is the first to be based on the entire, uniformly processed, 48 month Kepler dataset. This is the first fully automated catalog, employing robotic vetting procedures to uniformly evaluate every periodic signal detected by the Q1-Q17 Data Release 24 (DR24) Kepler pipeline. While we priori...
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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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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 ...
The Kepler Mission on Two Reaction Wheels is K2
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Although data collection for the original Kepler mission is complete, a repurposed Kepler has the potential to discover many hundreds of new, small exoplanets around low- mass stars located in or near the ecliptic plane. This repurposing of the Kepler spacecraft, dubbed K2, seeks to maximize photometric performance using its two operational react...
Heartbeat Stars: A Class Of Tidally Excited Eccentric Binaries
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We have discovered a class of eccentric binary systems undergoing dynamic tidal distortions and tidally induced pulsations in the Kepler data. Each has a uniquely shaped light curve that is characterized by periodic brightening or variability at time scales of 4-20 days which is frequently accompanied by shorter period oscillations. We can explain ...
