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In recent years we have witnessed an explosion of photometric time-series data, collected for the purpose of finding a small number of rare sources, such as transiting extrasolar planets and gravitational microlenses. Once combed, these…

Many short-period binary stars have distant orbiting companions that have played a role in driving the binary components into close separation. Indirect detection of a tertiary star is possible by measuring apparent changes in eclipse times…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-08 D. R. Gies , R. A. Matson , Z. Guo , K. V. Lester , J. A. Orosz , G. J. Peters

We have created a catalogue of variable stars found from a search of the publicly available K2 mission data from Campaigns 1 and 0. This catalogue provides the identifiers of 8395 variable stars, including 199 candidate eclipsing binaries…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-29 D. J. Armstrong , J. Kirk , K. W. F. Lam , J. McCormac , S. R. Walker , D. J. A. Brown , H. P. Osborn , D. L. Pollacco , J. Spake

The Kepler Space Telescope is currently searching for planets transiting stars along the ecliptic plane as part of its extended K2 mission. We processed the publicly released data from the first year of K2 observations (Campaigns 0, 1, 2,…

Since 2014, NASA's K2 mission has observed large portions of the ecliptic plane in search of transiting planets and has detected hundreds of planet candidates. With observations planned until at least early 2018, K2 will continue to…

The Kepler mission has provided high quality light curves for more than 2000 eclipsing binaries. Tertiary companions to these binaries can be detected if they transit one or both stars in the binary or if they perturb the binary enough to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-26 Jerome A. Orosz

The Kepler mission has discovered over 2500 exoplanet candidates in the first two years of spacecraft data, with approximately 40% of them in candidate multi-planet systems. The high rate of multiplicity combined with the low rate of…

We present a catalog of precise eclipse times and analysis of third body signals among 1279 close binaries in the latest Kepler Eclipsing Binary Catalog. For these short period binaries, Kepler's 30 minute exposure time causes significant…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Kyle E. Conroy , Andrej Prsa , Keivan G. Stassun , Jerome A. Orosz , Daniel C. Fabrycky , William F. Welsh

The Kepler mission has provided high-accurate photometric data in a long time span for more than two hundred thousands stars, looking for planetary transits. Among the detected candidates, the planetary nature of around 15% has been…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-15 J. Lillo-Box , D. Barrado , L. Mancini , Th. Henning , P. Figueira , S. Ciceri , N. Santos

Photometric surveys such as Kepler have the precision to identify exoplanet and eclipsing binary candidates from only a single transit. K2, with its 75d campaign duration, is ideally suited to detect significant numbers of single-eclipsing…

We present 151 planet candidates orbiting 141 stars from K2 campaigns 5-8 (C5-C8), identified through a systematic search of K2 photometry. In addition, we identify 16 targets as likely eclipsing binaries, based on their light curve…

Eclipsing binaries are vital for directly determining stellar parameters without reliance on models or scaling relations. Spectroscopically derived parameters of detached and semi-detached binaries allow us to determine component masses…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-15 Rachel A. Matson , Douglas R. Gies , Zhao Guo , Stephen J. Williams

After the failure of two reaction wheels and the end of its original mission, the Kepler spacecraft has begun observing stars in new fields along the ecliptic plane in its extended K2 mission. Although K2 promises to deliver high precision…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-08 Andrew Vanderburg

Binaries play key roles in determining stellar parameters and exploring stellar evolution models. We build a catalog of 88 eclipsing binaries with spectroscopic information, taking advantage of observations from both the Large Sky Area…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-19 Fan Yang , Richard J. Long , Su-Su Shan , Bo Zhang , Rui Guo , Yu Bai , ZhongRui Bai , KaiMing Cui , Song Wang , Ji-Feng Liu

In this paper we describe a project we initiated to investigate individual pixels in the downloaded Kepler apertures in order to find objects in the background of the main targets with variable brightness. In the first paper of this series…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-25 Adrienn Forró , Róbert Szabó , Attila Bódi , Kornél Császár

The purpose of this work is to extend a sample of accurately modeled, benchmark-grade eclipsing binaries with accurately determined masses and radii. We select four "well-behaved" Kepler binaries, KIC2306740, KIC4076952, KIC5193386 and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-05 Kelly Hambleton , Andrej Prsa , Scott W. Fleming , Suvrath Mahadevan , Chad F. Bender

Photometry of stars from the K2 extension of NASA's Kepler mission is afflicted by systematic effects caused by small (few-pixel) drifts in the telescope pointing and other spacecraft issues. We present a method for searching K2 light…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Daniel Foreman-Mackey , Benjamin T. Montet , David W. Hogg , Timothy D. Morton , Dun Wang , Bernhard Schölkopf

We provide the first full K2 transiting exoplanet sample, using photometry from Campaigns 1-8 and 10-18, derived through an entirely automated procedure. This homogeneous planet candidate catalog is a crucial to perform a robust demographic…