Exoplanet statistics and theoretical implications

W Zhu, S Dong - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2021 - annualreviews.org
In the past few years, significant advances have been made in understanding the
distributions of exoplanet populations and the architecture of planetary systems. We review …

Exoplanet biosignatures: observational prospects

Y Fujii, D Angerhausen, R Deitrick… - Astrobiology, 2018 - liebertpub.com
Exoplanet hunting efforts have revealed the prevalence of exotic worlds with diverse
properties, including Earth-sized bodies, which has fueled our endeavor to search for life …

The California-Kepler survey. III. A gap in the radius distribution of small planets

BJ Fulton, EA Petigura, AW Howard… - The Astronomical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The size of a planet is an observable property directly connected to the physics of its
formation and evolution. We used precise radius measurements from the California-Kepler …

The Gaia–Kepler stellar properties catalog. I. Homogeneous fundamental properties for 186,301 Kepler Stars

TA Berger, D Huber, JL Van Saders… - The Astronomical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
An accurate and precise Kepler Stellar Properties Catalog is essential for the interpretation
of the Kepler exoplanet survey results. Previous Kepler Stellar Properties Catalogs have …

Identifying exoplanets with deep learning: A five-planet resonant chain around kepler-80 and an eighth planet around kepler-90

CJ Shallue, A Vanderburg - The Astronomical Journal, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract NASA's Kepler Space Telescope was designed to determine the frequency of Earth-
sized planets orbiting Sun-like stars, but these planets are on the very edge of the mission's …

Kepler data validation I—architecture, diagnostic tests, and data products for vetting transiting planet candidates

JD Twicken, JH Catanzarite, BD Clarke… - Publications of the …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract 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 …

The California-Kepler survey. IV. Metal-rich stars host a greater diversity of planets

EA Petigura, GW Marcy, JN Winn… - The Astronomical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Probing the connection between a star's metallicity and the presence and properties of any
associated planets offers an observational link between conditions during the epoch of …

A revised exoplanet yield from the transiting exoplanet survey satellite (TESS)

T Barclay, J Pepper, EV Quintana - The Astrophysical Journal …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has a goal of detecting small
planets orbiting stars bright enough for mass determination via ground-based radial velocity …

False positive probabilities for all Kepler objects of interest: 1284 newly validated planets and 428 likely false positives

TD Morton, ST Bryson, JL Coughlin… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We present astrophysical false positive probability calculations for every Kepler Object of
Interest (KOI)—the first large-scale demonstration of a fully automated transiting planet …

Revised radii of Kepler stars and planets using Gaia Data Release 2

TA Berger, D Huber, E Gaidos… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
One bottleneck for the exploitation of data from the Kepler mission for stellar astrophysics
and exoplanet research has been the lack of precise radii and evolutionary states for most of …