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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...
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...
Published in The Astrophysical Journal
We measure planet occurrence rates using the planet candidates discovered by the Q1-Q16 Kepler pipeline search. This study examines planet occurrence rates for the Kepler GK dwarf target sample for planet radii, $0.75\;\ leqslant\; $ $R _ \ rm p $ $\;\ leqslant $2.5$R _ \ oplus $, and orbital periods, $50\;\ leqslant $ $P _ \ mathrm orb $ $\ leqsla...
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...
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...
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...
We give an overview of the operational concepts and architecture of the Kepler Science Processing Pipeline. Designed, developed, operated, and maintained by the Kepler Science Operations Center (SOC) at NASA Ames Research Center, the Science Processing Pipeline is a central element of the Kepler Ground Data System. The SOC consists of an office at ...
The Kepler Science Pipeline provides calibrated pixels, simple and systematic error- corrected aperture photometry, and centroid locations for all 165,000 Long Cadence (LC) target stars sampled at 29.5 min integrations, along with associated uncertainties. Based on the first 44 days of data collected by Kepler, over 700 planetary candidates have be...