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We present a framework to conservatively estimate the probability that any particular planet-like transit signal observed by the Kepler mission is in fact a planet, prior to any ground-based follow-up efforts. We use Monte Carlo methods…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Timothy D. Morton , John Asher Johnson

In this work, we apply an exploratory joint Bayesian transit detector (Taaki et al. 2020), previously evaluated using Kepler data, to the 2 min simple aperture photometry light curve data in the continuous viewing zone for the Transiting…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-29 Jamila S. Taaki , Athol J. Kemball , Farzad Kamalabadi

Transiting exoplanets in multi-planet systems have non-Keplerian orbits which can cause the times and durations of transits to vary. The theory and observations of transit timing variations (TTV) and transit duration variations (TDV) are…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-01 Eric Agol , Daniel Fabrycky

The Kepler Mission is exploring the diversity of planets and planetary systems. Its legacy will be a catalog of discoveries sufficient for computing planet occurrence rates as a function of size, orbital period, star-type, and insolation…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-08 Natalie M. Batalha

Transiting planet discoveries have yielded a plethora of information towards understanding the structure and atmospheres of extra-solar planets. These discoveries have been restricted to the short-period or low-periastron distance regimes…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-09 Stephen R. Kane , Suvrath Mahadevan , Kaspar von Braun , Gregory Laughlin , Andrew Howard , David R. Ciardi

We conducted a search for very short-period transiting objects in the publicly available Kepler dataset. Our preliminary survey has revealed four planetary candidates, all with orbital periods less than twelve hours. We have analyzed the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Brian Jackson , Christopher C. Stark , Elisabeth R. Adams , John Chambers , Drake Deming

Though free-floating planets (FFPs) may outpopulate their bound counterparts in the terrestrial-mass range, they remain one of the least explored exoplanet demographics. Due to their negligible electromagnetic emission at all wavelengths,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-14 Michelle Kunimoto , William DeRocco , Nolan Smyth , Steve Bryson , B. Scott Gaudi

This paper investigates the frequency of transiting planetary systems around metal-polluted white dwarfs using high-cadence photometry from ULTRACAM and ULTRASPEC on the ground, and space-based observations with TESS. Within a sample of 313…

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 112,321 targets which were observed over the full interval and an…

We present a semi-analytic estimate of the expected yield of single-transit planets from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). We use the TESS Candidate Target List 6 (CTL-6) as an input catalog of over 4 million sources. We…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-05 Steven Villanueva , Diana Dragomir , B. Scott Gaudi

The TESS mission produces a large amount of time series data, only a small fraction of which contain detectable exoplanetary transit signals. Deep learning techniques such as neural networks have proved effective at differentiating…

New transiting planet candidates are identified in sixteen months (May 2009 - September 2010) of data from the Kepler spacecraft. Nearly five thousand periodic transit-like signals are vetted against astrophysical and instrumental false…

While Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) covers a considerable area of the sky during routine observations and the pointing schedule is easy to follow, it is not obvious to retrieve the current and/or predicted visibility of a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-03 András Pál

TESS is finding transiting planet candidates around bright, nearby stars across the entire sky. The large field-of-view, however, results in low spatial resolution, therefore multiple stars contribute to almost every TESS light curve.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Carl Ziegler , Andrei Tokovinin , Cesar Briceno , James Mang , Nicholas Law , Andrew W. Mann

Transiting planet discoveries have largely been restricted to the short-period or low-periastron distance regimes due to the bias inherent in the geometric transit probability. Through the refinement of planetary orbital parameters, and…

The legacy of NASA's K2 mission has provided hundreds of transiting exoplanets that can be revisited by new and future facilities for further characterization, with a particular focus on studying the atmospheres of these systems. However,…

Radial-velocity follow-up of stars harbouring transiting planets detected by TESS is expected to require very large amounts of expensive telescope time in the next few years. Therefore, scheduling strategies should be implemented to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-31 Lorenzo Cabona , Pedro Viana , Marco Landoni , João Faria

We report on the discovery and validation of a transiting long-period mini-Neptune orbiting a bright (V = 9.0 mag) G dwarf (TOI 4633; R = 1.05 RSun, M = 1.10 MSun). The planet was identified in data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey…

The search for planets orbiting other stars has recently expanded to include stars from galaxies outside the Milky Way. With the TESS and Gaia surveys, photometric and kinematic information can be combined to identify transiting planet…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-07 Stephanie Yoshida , Samuel Grunblatt , Adrian Price-Whelan

Doppler and transit surveys are finding extrasolar planets of ever smaller mass and radius, and are now sampling the domain of superEarths (1-3 Earth radii). Recent results from the Doppler surveys suggest that discovery of a transiting…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 D. Deming , S. Seager , J. Winn , E. Miller-Ricci , M. Clampin , D. Lindler , T. Greene , D. Charbonneau , G. Laughlin , G. Ricker , D. Latham , K. Ennico