Sentences with phrase «numbers of planet candidates»
We show that this statistical framework correctly estimates the ab... ▽ More We extend the statistical analysis of Lissauer et al. (2012, ApJ 750, 112), which demonstrates that the overwhelming majority of Kepler candidate multiple transiting systems (multis) represent true transiting planets, and develop therefrom a procedure to validate large numbers of planet candidates in multis as bona fide exoplanets.
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A number of planet candidates are three to four times larger than Jupiter, which means that Kepler most likely detected double - star systems in which one star was passing in front of the other.
The findings increase the number of planet candidates identified so far by Kepler to 1,235.
Not exact matches
«This gives astronomers a statistically sound population of planet candidates to accurately determine the number of small, possibly rocky planets like Earth in our Milky Way galaxy.»
A large number of exoplanets and planet candidates are known, but the Earth - size exoplanets in Earth - like orbits still reside in an open part of discovery space.
We then compare the number of observed planet candidates to the number of stars around which such planets could have been detected in order to estimate the planet occurrence rate around cool stars.
This brings the total number of KOIs and planet... ▽ More \ We present the sixth catalog of Kepler candidate planets based on nearly 4 years of high precision photometry.
The results include new asteroseismic solutions for four host stars with confirmed planets (Kepler - 4, Kepler - 14, Kepler - 23 and Kepler - 25) and increase the total number of Kepler host stars with asteroseismic solutions... ▽ More We have used asteroseismology to determine fundamental properties for 66 Kepler planet - candidate host stars, with typical uncertainties of 3 % and 7 % in radius and mass, respectively.
Based on Kepler observations conducted from May 2009 to September 2010, the planet findings show a dramatic increase in the numbers of smaller - size planet candidates, where Earth - size and super-Earth-size candidates have increased in number by more than 204 and 136 percent, respectively, since the last Kepler announcement in February 2011.