Automatic Classification of Kepler Threshold Crossing Events

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 the light curves has increased to as many as 18,000, just examining the first three years of data. This number of significant detections has become difficult for human beings to inspect by eye in ...