Planetary Candidates Observed by Kepler VI: Planet Sample from Q1-Q16 (47 Months)
Abstract
\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 the Kepler project and includes 1493 new Kepler Objects of Interest (KOIs) of which 554 are planet candidates, and 131 of these candidates have best fit radii <1.5 R_earth. This brings the total number of KOIs and planet candidates to 7305 and 4173 respectively. We suspect that many of these new candidates at the low signal-to-noise limit may be false alarms created by instrumental noise, and discuss our efforts to identify such objects. We re-evaluate all previously published KOIs with orbital periods of >50 days to provide a consistently vetted sample that can be used to improve planet occurrence rate calculations. We discuss the performance of our planet detection algorithms, and the consistency of our vetting products. The full catalog is publicly available at the NASA Exoplanet Archive.
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@article{arxiv.1502.02038,
title = {Planetary Candidates Observed by Kepler VI: Planet Sample from Q1-Q16 (47 Months)},
author = {F. Mullally and Jeffrey L. Coughlin and Susan E. Thompson and Jason Rowe and Christopher Burke and David W. Latham and Natalie M. Batalha and Stephen T. Bryson and Jessie Christiansen and Christopher E. Henze and Aviv Ofir and Billy Quarles and Avi Shporer and Vincent Van Eylen and Christa Van Laerhoven and Yash Shah and Angie Wolfgang and W. J. Chaplin and Ji-Wei Xie and Rachel Akeson and Vic Argabright and Eric Bachtell and Thomas Barclay William J. Borucki and Douglas A. Caldwell and Jennifer R. Campbell and Joseph H. Catanzarite and William D. Cochran and Riley M. Duren and Scott W. Fleming and Dorothy Fraquelli and Forrest R. Girouard and Michael R. Haas and Krzysztof G. Hełminiak and Steve B. Howell and Daniel Huber and Kipp Larson and Thomas N. Gautier and Jon Jenkins and Jie Li and Jack J. Lissauer and Scot McArthur and Chris Miller and Robert L. Morris and Anima Patil-Sabale and Peter Plavchan and Dustin Putnam and Elisa V. Quintana and Solange Ramirez and V. Silva Aguirre and Shawn Seader and Jeffrey C. Smith and Jason H. Steffen and Chris Stewart and Jeremy Stober and Martin Still and Peter Tenenbaum and John Troeltzsch and Joseph D. Twicken and Khadeejah A. Zamudio},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.02038},
year = {2015}
}
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18 pages, to be published in the Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series