Sentences with phrase «kepler planet population»

So I started a small research project investigating what the Kepler planet population looked like around stars of different masses.

Not exact matches

Professor Hugh Jones, also from the University of Hertfordshire, commented: «This result is somewhat expected in the sense that studies of distant red dwarfs with the Kepler mission indicate a significant population of small radius planets.

Preferred Hosts for Short - Period Exoplanets In an effort to learn more about how planets form around their host stars, a team of scientists has analyzed the population of Kepler - discovered exoplanet candidates, looking for trends in where they're found.

Most importantly, we also quantify and characterize the distribution and rate of occurrence of planets down to Earth size with no prior assumptions on their frequency, by subtracting from the population of actual Kepler candidates our simulated population of astrophysical false positives.

Additionally, Kepler has also reported a large population of relatively low mass planets, inside the snow line.

Abstract: With each new version of the Kepler pipeline and resulting planet candidate catalogue, an updated measurement of the underlying planet population can only be recovered with an corresponding measurement of the Kepler pipeline detection efficiency.

With Planet Hunters I aim complete a census of the exoplanet population and provide an independent assessment of the Kepler exoplanet inventory.

We conclude that Kepler - 21b, with a density of 6.4 + / - 2.1 g / cm ^ 3, belongs to the population of terrestrial planets with iron, magnesium silicate interiors, which have lost the majority of their envelope volatiles via stellar winds or gravitational escape.

Using probabilities like these, scientists can estimate the planet population of our galaxy from Kepler's observations.

When compared to the 827 systems with only one candidate, the multip... ▽ More In this letter we present an overview of the rich population of systems with multiple candidate transiting planets found in the first four months of Kepler data.

Selected population of planet candidates detected by the Kepler Space Telescope.