Identification of background false positives from Kepler data

Stephen T. Bryson; Jon M. Jenkins; Ronald L. Gilliland; Joseph D. Twicken; Bruce Clarke; Jason Rowe; Douglas Caldwell; Natalie Batalha; Fergal Mullally; Michael R. Haas; Peter Tenenbaum

doi:10.1086/671767

Identification of background false positives from Kepler data

Stephen T. Bryson, Jon M. Jenkins, Ronald L. Gilliland, Joseph D. Twicken, Bruce Clarke, Jason Rowe, Douglas Caldwell, Natalie Batalha, Fergal Mullally, Michael R. Haas, Peter Tenenbaum

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The Kepler Mission was launched on 2009 March 6 to perform a photometric survey of more than 100,000 dwarf stars to search for Earth-size planets with the transit technique. The reliability of the resulting planetary candidate list relies on the ability to identify and remove false positives. Major sources of astrophysical false positives are planetary transits and stellar eclipses on background stars. We describe several new techniques for the identification of background transit sources that are separated from their target stars, indicating an astrophysical false positive. These techniques use only Kepler photometric data. We describe the concepts and construction of these techniques in detail as well as their performance and relative merits.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	889-923
Number of pages	35
Journal	Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Volume	125
Issue number	930
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1086/671767
State	Published - Aug 2013

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Identification of background false positives from Kepler data

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