Detection of Potential Transit Signals in Sixteen Quarters of Kepler Mission Data

We present the results of a search for potential transit signals in four years of photometry data acquired by the Kepler Mission. The targets of the search include 111,800 stars which were observed for the entire interval and 85,522 stars which were observed for a subset of the interval.

We observed that 9,743 targets contained at least one signal consistent with the signature of a transiting planet, where the criteria for detection are periodicity of the detected transits, adequate signal-to-noise ratio, and acceptance by a number of tests which reject false positive detections. When targets that had produced a signal were searched repeatedly, an additional 6,542 signals were detected on 3,223 target stars, for a total of 16,285 potential transiting planet signatures.

Comparison of the set of detected signals with a set of known and vetted transit events in the Kepler field of view shows that the recovery rate for these signals is 97.0%. The ensemble properties of the detected signals are reviewed.

Peter Tenenbaum, Jon M. Jenkins, Shawn Seader, Christopher J. Burke, Jessie L. Christiansen, Jason F. Rowe, Douglas A. Caldwell, Bruce D. Clarke, Jeffrey L. Coughlin, Jie Li, Elisa V. Quintana, Jeffrey C. Smith, Susan E. Thompson, Joseph D. Twicken, Michael R. Haas, Christopher E. Henze, Roger C. Hunter, Dwight T. Sanderfer, Jennifer R. Campbell, Forrest R. Girouard, Todd C. Klaus, Sean D. McCauliff, Christopher K. Middour, Anima Sabale, Akm Kamal Uddin, Bill Wohler, Thomas Barclay, Martin Still (Submitted on 1 Nov 2013)

Comments: Submitted to ApJ Supplement

Subjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)

Cite as: arXiv:1311.0248 [astro-ph.EP]

(or arXiv:1311.0248v1 [astro-ph.EP] for this version)

Submission history From: Peter Tenenbaum [v1] Fri, 1 Nov 2013 18:28:48 GMT (262kb)