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most citedKepler Mission Design, Realized Photometric Performance, and Early Science

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37 papers

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Identifying Radio Active Galactic Nuclei with Machine Learning and Large-Area Surveys

Xu-Liang Fan, Jie Li

Context. Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and star forming galaxies (SFGs) are the primary sources of extragalactic radio sky. But it is difficult to distinguish the radio emission pr…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 180 cited

The Occurrence of Rocky Habitable Zone Planets Around Solar-Like Stars from Kepler Data

Steve Bryson, Michelle Kunimoto, Ravi K. Kopparapu +79

We present occurrence rates for rocky planets in the habitable zones (HZ) of main-sequence dwarf stars based on the Kepler DR25 planet candidate catalog and Gaia-based stellar prop…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 59 cited

MuSCAT2 multicolour validation of TESS candidates: an ultra-short-period substellar object around an M dwarf

H. Parviainen, E. Palle, M. R. Zapatero-Osorio +37

We report the discovery of TOI 263.01 (TIC 120916706), a transiting substellar object (R = 0.87 RJup) orbiting a faint M3.5~V dwarf (V=18.97) on a 0.56~d orbit. We set out to deter…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 164 cited

TESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME): A planet in the 45 Myr Tucana-Horologium association

Elisabeth R. Newton, Andrew W. Mann, Benjamin M. Tofflemire +49

Young exoplanets are snapshots of the planetary evolution process. Planets that orbit stars in young associations are particularly important because the age of the planetary system…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 28 cited

TOI-150b and TOI-163b: two transiting hot Jupiters, one eccentric and one inflated, revealed by TESS near and at the edge of the JWST CVZ

Diana Kossakowski, Néstor Espinoza, Rafael Brahm +51

We present the discovery of TYC9191-519-1b (TOI-150b, TIC 271893367) and HD271181b (TOI-163b, TIC 179317684), two hot Jupiters initially detected using 30-minute cadence Transiting…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 49 cited

The Transiting Multi-planet System HD15337: Two Nearly Equal-mass Planets Straddling the Radius Gap

Davide Gandolfi, Luca Fossati, John H. Livingston +53

We report the discovery of a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune transiting the star HD 15337 (TOI-402, TIC 120896927), a bright (V=9) K1 dwarf observed by the Transiting Exoplanet Surve…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 247 cited

Kepler Data Validation II -- Transit Model Fitting and Multiple-Planet Search

Jie Li, Peter Tenenbaum, Joseph D. Twicken +5

This paper discusses the transit model fitting and multiple-planet search algorithms and performance of the Kepler Science Data Processing Pipeline, developed by the Kepler Science…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 101 cited

TESS full orbital phase curve of the WASP-18b system

Avi Shporer, Ian Wong, Chelsea X. Huang +18

We present a visible-light full orbital phase curve of the transiting planet WASP-18b measured by the TESS Mission. The phase curve includes the transit, secondary eclipse, and sin…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 322 cited

Kepler Data Validation I -- Architecture, Diagnostic Tests, and Data Products for Vetting Transiting Planet Candidates

Joseph D. Twicken, Joseph H. Catanzarite, Bruce D. Clarke +14

The Kepler Mission was designed to identify and characterize transiting planets in the Kepler Field of View and to determine their occurrence rates. Emphasis was placed on identifi…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 430 cited

Planetary Candidates Observed by Kepler. VIII. A Fully Automated Catalog With Measured Completeness and Reliability Based on Data Release 25

Susan E. Thompson, Jeffrey L. Coughlin, Kelsey Hoffman +58

We present the Kepler Object of Interest (KOI) catalog of transiting exoplanets based on searching four years of Kepler time series photometry (Data Release 25, Q1-Q17). The catalo…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 83 cited

Detection of Potential Transit Signals in 17 Quarters of Kepler Data: Results of the Final Kepler Mission Transiting Planet Search (DR25)

Joseph D. Twicken, Jon M. Jenkins, Shawn E. Seader +25

We present results of the final Kepler Data Processing Pipeline search for transiting planet signals in the full 17-quarter primary mission data set. The search includes a total of…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 238 cited

Planetary Candidates Observed by Kepler. VII. The First Fully Uniform Catalog Based on The Entire 48 Month Dataset (Q1-Q17 DR24)

Jeffrey L. Coughlin, F. Mullally, Susan E. Thompson +32

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 automate…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 167 cited

Discovery and Validation of Kepler-452b: A 1.6-Re Super Earth Exoplanet in the Habitable Zone of a G2 Star

Jon M. Jenkins, Joseph D. Twicken, Natalie M. Batalha +26

We report on the discovery and validation of Kepler-452b, a transiting planet identified by a search through the 4 years of data collected by NASA's Kepler Mission. This possibly r…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 47 cited

Detection of Potential Transit Signals in 17 Quarters of Kepler Mission Data

Shawn Seader, Jon M. Jenkins, Peter Tenenbaum +17

We present the results of a search for potential transit signals in the full 17-quarter data set collected during Kepler's primary mission that ended on May 11, 2013, due to the on…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 264 cited

Planetary Candidates Observed by Kepler VI: Planet Sample from Q1-Q16 (47 Months)

F. Mullally, Jeffrey L. Coughlin, Susan E. Thompson +56

\We present the sixth catalog of Kepler candidate planets based on nearly 4 years of high precision photometry. This catalog builds on the legacy of previous catalogs released by t…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 188 cited

Planetary Candidates Observed by Kepler V: Planet Sample from Q1-Q12 (36 Months)

Jason F. Rowe, Jeffrey L. Coughlin, Victoria Antoci +43

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…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 102 cited

Automatic Classification of Kepler Planetary Transit Candidates

Sean D. McCauliff, Jon M. Jenkins, Joseph Catanzarite +7

In the first three years of operation the Kepler mission found 3,697 planet candidates from a set of 18,406 transit-like features detected on over 200,000 distinct stars. Vetting c…

astro-ph.EP2013★ 231 cited

Planetary Candidates Observed by Kepler IV: Planet Sample From Q1-Q8 (22 Months)

Christopher J. Burke, Stephen T. Bryson, F. Mullally +37

We provide updates to the Kepler planet candidate sample based upon nearly two years of high-precision photometry (i.e., Q1-Q8). From an initial list of nearly 13,400 Threshold Cro…

astro-ph.EP2013★ 39 cited

Detection of Potential Transit Signals in Sixteen Quarters of Kepler Mission Data

Peter Tenenbaum, Jon M. Jenkins, Shawn Seader +25

We present the results of a search for potential transit signals in four years of photometry data acquired by the Kepler Mission. The targets of the search include 111,800 stars wh…

astro-ph.EP2013★ 217 cited

A sub-Mercury-sized exoplanet

Thomas Barclay, Jason F. Rowe, Jack J. Lissauer +55

Since the discovery of the first exoplanet we have known that other planetary systems can look quite unlike our own. However, until recently we have only been able to probe the upp…

astro-ph.EP2012

Detection of Potential Transit Signals in the First Twelve Quarters of Kepler Mission Data

Peter Tenenbaum, Jon M. Jenkins, Shawn Seader +26

We present the results of a search for potential transit signals in the first three years of photometry data acquired by the Kepler Mission. The targets of the search include 112,3…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 201 cited

The Neptune-Sized Circumbinary Planet Kepler-38b

Jerome A. Orosz, William F. Welsh, Joshua A. Carter +28

We discuss the discovery and characterization of the circumbinary planet Kepler-38b. The stellar binary is single-lined, with a period of 18.8 days, and consists of a moderately ev…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 269 cited

The Derivation, Properties and Value of Kepler's Combined Differential Photometric Precision

Jessie L. Christiansen, Jon M. Jenkins, Thomas S. Barclay +11

The Kepler Mission is searching for Earth-size planets orbiting solar-like stars by simultaneously observing >160,000 stars to detect sequences of transit events in the photometric…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 28 cited

Orbital properties of an unusually low-mass sdB star in a close binary system with a white dwarf

R. Silvotti, R. H. Østensen, S. Bloemen +17

We have used 605 days of photometric data from the Kepler spacecraft to study KIC 6614501, a close binary system with an orbital period of 0.15749747(25) days (3.779939 hours), tha…