Detection of Potential Transit Signals in the First Three Quarters of Kepler Mission Data

Details Detection of Potential Transit Signals in the First Three Quarters of Kepler Mission Data Detection of Potential Transit Signals in the First Three Quarters of Kepler Mission Data

2012-01-05

arxiv.org/abs/1201.1048v2

Astrophysical Journal Supplement 199, 24 (2012)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics

Scientific paper

10.1088/0067-0049/199/1/24

We present the results of a search for potential transit signals in the first three quarters of photometry data acquired by the Kepler Mission. The targets of the search include 151,722 stars which were observed over the full interval and an additional 19,132 stars which were observed for only 1 or 2 quarters. From this set of targets we find a total of 5,392 detections which meet the Kepler detection criteria: those criteria are periodicity of the signal, an acceptable signal-to-noise ratio, and a composition test which rejects spurious detections which contain non-physical combinations of events. The detected signals are dominated by events with relatively low signal-to-noise ratio and by events with relatively short periods. The distribution of estimated transit depths appears to peak in the range between 40 and 100 parts per million, with a few detections down to fewer than 10 parts per million. The detected signals are compared to a set of known transit events in the Kepler field of view which were derived by a different method using a longer data interval; the comparison shows that the current search correctly identified 88.1% of the known events. A tabulation of the detected transit signals, examples which illustrate the analysis and detection process, a discussion of future plans and open, potentially fruitful, areas of further research are included.

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