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Currently, we have only limited means to probe the presence of planets at large orbital separations. Foreman-Mackey et al. searched for long-period transiting planets in the Kepler light curves using an automated pipeline. Here, we apply…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 Miranda K. Herman , Wei Zhu , Yanqin Wu

One core goal of the Kepler mission was to determine the frequency of Earth-like planets that orbit Sun-like stars. Accurately estimating this planet occurrence rate requires both a well-vetted list of planets and a clear understanding of…

We characterize the occurrence rate of planets, ranging in size from 0.5-16 R$_\oplus$, orbiting FGK stars with orbital periods from 0.5-500 days. Our analysis is based on results from the "DR25" catalog of planet candidates produced by…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Danley C. Hsu , Eric B. Ford , Darin Ragozzine , Keir Ashby

Trends in the planet population with host star mass provide an avenue to constrain planet formation theories. We derive the planet radius distribution function for Kepler stars of different spectral types, sampling a range in host star…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-02 Gijs D. Mulders , Ilaria Pascucci , Daniel Apai

No true extrasolar Earth analog is known. Hundreds of planets have been found around Sun-like stars that are either Earth-sized but on shorter periods, or else on year-long orbits but somewhat larger. Under strong assumptions, exoplanet…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Daniel Foreman-Mackey , David W. Hogg , Timothy D. Morton

We present Kepler exoplanet occurrence rates inferred with approximate Bayesian computation (ABC). By using the same planet catalogue, stellar sample, and characterization of completeness and reliability as Bryson et al. (2020), we are able…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-18 Michelle Kunimoto , Steve Bryson

The Kepler mission observed thousands of transiting exoplanet candidates around hundreds of thousands of FGK dwarf stars. He, Ford, & Ragozzine (2019) (arXiv:1907.07773) applied forward modeling to infer the distribution of intrinsic…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-10 Matthias Y. He , Eric B. Ford , Darin Ragozzine

We review the observed properties of exoplanets found by the Doppler technique which has revealed 152 exoplanets to date. We focus on our ongoing 18-year survey of 1330 FGKM type stars at Lick, Keck, and the Anglo-Australian Telescopes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Marcy , R. P. Butler , D. A. Fischer , S. S. Vogt , J. T. Wright , C. G. Tinney , H. R. A. Jones

Using our K2 Campaign 5 fully automated planet detection data set (43 planets), which has corresponding measures of completeness and reliability, we infer an underlying planet population model for the FGK dwarfs sample (9,257 stars).…

We report the distribution of planets as a function of planet radius (R_p), orbital period (P), and stellar effective temperature (Teff) for P < 50 day orbits around GK stars. These results are based on the 1,235 planets (formally "planet…

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 the observed stars. We report revised radii of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-24 Travis A. Berger , Daniel Huber , Eric Gaidos , Jennifer L. van Saders

We use simulated planetary systems to model the planet multiplicity of Kepler stars. Previous studies have underproduced single planet systems and invoked the so called Kepler dichotomy, where the planet forming ability of a Kepler star is…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-12 Timothy Bovaird , Charles H. Lineweaver

Understanding the demographics of close-in planets is crucial for insights into exoplanet formation and evolution. We present a detailed analysis of occurrence rates for close-in (0.5-16 day) planets with radii between 2 and…

For much of human history we have wondered how our solar system formed, and whether there are any other planets like ours around other stars. Only in the last 20 years have we had direct evidence for the existence of exoplanets, with the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-26 Jeffrey L. Coughlin

We constrain the intrinsic architecture of Kepler planetary systems by modeling the observed multiplicities of the transiting planets (tranets) and their transit timing variations (TTVs). We robustly determine that the fraction of Sun-like…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-04 Wei Zhu , Cristobal Petrovich , Yanqin Wu , Subo Dong , Jiwei Xie

Studies of exoplanet demographics require large samples and precise constraints on exoplanet host stars. Using the homogeneous Kepler stellar properties derived using Gaia Data Release 2 by Berger et al. (2020), we re-compute Kepler planet…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-19 Travis A. Berger , Daniel Huber , Eric Gaidos , Jennifer L. van Saders , Lauren M. Weiss

While giant extrasolar planets have been studied for more than two decades now, there are still some open questions such as their dominant formation and migration process, as well as their atmospheric evolution in different stellar…

We measure planet occurrence rates using the planet candidates discovered by the Q1-Q16 Kepler pipeline search. This study examines planet occurrence rates for the Kepler GK dwarf target sample for planet radii, 0.75<Rp<2.5 Rearth, and…

We present robust planet occurrence rates for Kepler planet candidates around M stars for planet radii $R_p = 0.5-4~\textrm{R}_\oplus$ and orbital periods $P = 0.5-256$ days using the approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) technique. This…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-09 Danley C. Hsu , Eric B. Ford , Ryan Terrien