LOW FALSE POSITIVE RATE OF KEPLER CANDIDATES ESTIMATED FROM A COMBINATION OF SPITZER AND FOLLOW-UP OBSERVATIONS

LOW FALSE POSITIVE RATE OF KEPLER CANDIDATES ESTIMATED FROM A COMBINATION OF SPITZER AND FOLLOW-UP OBSERVATIONS

NASA's Kepler mission has provided several thousand transiting planet candidates during the 4 yr of its nominal mission, yet only a small subset of these candidates have been confirmed as true planets. Therefore, the most fundamental question about these candidates is the fraction of bona fide...

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Main Authors: Charbonneau, David (Author), Torres, Guillermo (Author), Fressin, François (Author), Ballard, Sarah (Author), Bryson, Stephen T. (Author), Knutson, Heather A. (Author), Batalha, Natalie M. (Author), Borucki, William J. (Author), Brown, Timothy M. (Author), Deming, Drake (Author), Ford, Eric B. (Author), Fortney, Jonathan J. (Author), Gilliland, Ronald L. (Author), Latham, David W. (Author), Seager, Sara (Contributor), Desert, Jean-Michel (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing, 2015-05-26T19:46:42Z.
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