A catalog of Kepler habitable zone exoplanet candidates
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Article Title | A catalog of Kepler habitable zone exoplanet candidates |
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ERA Journal ID | 1057 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Kane, Stephen R. (Author), Hill, Michelle L. (Author), Kasting, James F. (Author), Kopparapu, Ravi Kumar (Author), Quintana, Elisa V. (Author), Barclay, Thomas (Author), Batalha, Natalie M. (Author), Borucki, William J. (Author), Ciardi, David R. (Author), Haghighipour, Nader (Author), Hinkel, Natalie R. (Author), Kaltenegger, Lisa (Author), Selsis, Franck (Author) and Torres, Guillermo (Author) |
Journal Title | The Astrophysical Journal: an international review of astronomy and astronomical physics |
Journal Citation | 830 (1), pp. 1-10 |
Article Number | 1 |
Number of Pages | 10 |
Year | 2016 |
Publisher | IOP Publishing |
Place of Publication | United States |
ISSN | 0004-637X |
1538-4357 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/830/1/1 |
Web Address (URL) | http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/0004-637X/830/1/1 |
Abstract | The NASA Kepler mission ha s discovered thousands of new planetary candidates, many of which have been confirmed through follow-up observations. A primary goal of the mission is to determine the occurrence rate of terrestrial-size planets within the Habitable Zone (HZ) of their host stars. Here we provide a list of HZ exoplanet candidates from the Kepler Q1-Q17 Data Release 24 data-vetting process. This work was undertaken as part of the Kepler HZ Working Group. We use a variety of criteria regarding HZ boundaries and planetary sizes to produce complete lists of HZ candidates, including a catalog of 104 candidates within the optimistic HZ and 20 candidates with radii less than two Earth radii within the conservative HZ. We cross-match our HZ candidates with the stellar properties and confirmed planet properties from Data Release 25 to provide robust stellar parameters and candidate dispositions. We also include false-positive probabilities recently calculated by Morton et al. for each of the candidates within our catalogs to aid in their validation. Finally, we performed dynamical analysis simulations for multi-planet systems that contain candidates with radii less than two Earth radii as a step toward validation of those systems. |
Keywords | astrobiology; astronomical databases: miscellaneous; planetary systems; techniques: photometric; |
Contains Sensitive Content | Does not contain sensitive content |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 510109. Stellar astronomy and planetary systems |
Public Notes | For access to this article, please click on the URL link provided. |
Byline Affiliations | San Francisco State University, United States |
Pennsylvania State University, United States | |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), United States | |
NASA Ames Research Center, United States | |
University of Hawaii, United States | |
Cornell University, United States | |
University of Bordeaux, France | |
Center for Astrophysics Harvard and Smithsonian, United States | |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q42z3/a-catalog-of-kepler-habitable-zone-exoplanet-candidates
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