The Expected Level of Background Eclipsing Binaries in the Kepler Dataset

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Jun 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006aas...208.4403s&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society Meeting 208, #44.03; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 38, p.118

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Kepler is a proposed space mission to find terrestrial planets by monitoring over 100,000 FGK dwarfs in Cygnus for transits. Kepler's detection efficiency will depend in part upon the number of variable stars that will have light curves that mimic the transit of a terrestrial planet across the disk of a star. Background eclipsing binaries blended with foreground main sequence stars are thought tobe the primary type of object which could masquerade as a transiting terrestrial planet. We have constructed a simulated stellar population modeling the Kepler field to estimate the number of these objects that Kepler will observe. We discuss the results of our simulation and the impact of background eclipsing binaries on Kepler's detection of terrestrial planets.

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