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THE FALSE POSITIVE RATE OF KEPLER AND THE OCCURRENCE OF PLANETS
- F. Fressin, Guillermo Torres, +6 authors N. Batalha
- Physics
- 4 January 2013
The Kepler mission is uniquely suited to study the frequencies of extrasolar planets. This goal requires knowledge of the incidence of false positives such as eclipsing binaries in the background of… Expand
The Occurrence of Potentially Habitable Planets Orbiting M Dwarfs Estimated from the Full Kepler Dataset and an Empirical Measurement of the Detection Sensitivity
- C. Dressing, D. Charbonneau
- Physics
- 7 January 2015
We present an improved estimate of the occurrence rate of small planets orbiting small stars by searching the full four-year Kepler data set for transiting planets using our own planet detection… Expand
Detection of an Extrasolar Planet Atmosphere
- D. Charbonneau, T. Brown, R. Noyes, R. Gilliland
- Physics
- 28 November 2001
We report high-precision spectrophotometric observations of four planetary transits of HD 209458, in the region of the sodium resonance doublet at 589.3 nm. We find that the photometric dimming… Expand
Hubble Space Telescope Time-Series Photometry of the Transiting Planet of HD?209458
- T. Brown, D. Charbonneau, R. Gilliland, R. Noyes, A. Burrows
- Physics
- 18 January 2001
We have observed four transits of the planet of HD 209458 using the STIS spectrograph on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Summing the recorded counts over wavelength between 582 and 638 nm yields a… Expand
A map of the day–night contrast of the extrasolar planet HD 189733b
- H. Knutson, D. Charbonneau, +6 authors S. Megeath
- Physics, Medicine
- Nature
- 7 May 2007
‘Hot Jupiter’ extrasolar planets are expected to be tidally locked because they are close (<0.05 astronomical units, where 1 au is the average Sun–Earth distance) to their parent stars, resulting in… Expand
THE OCCURRENCE RATE OF SMALL PLANETS AROUND SMALL STARS
- C. Dressing, D. Charbonneau
- Physics
- 7 February 2013
We use the optical and near-infrared photometry from the Kepler Input Catalog to provide improved estimates of the stellar characteristics of the smallest stars in the Kepler target list. We find… Expand
Detection of Thermal Emission from an Extrasolar Planet
- D. Charbonneau, L. Allen, +8 authors A. Sozzetti
- Physics
- 21 March 2005
We present Spitzer Space Telescope infrared photometric time series of the transiting extrasolar planet system TrES-1. The data span a predicted time of secondary eclipse, corresponding to the… Expand
Using Stellar Limb-Darkening to Refine the Properties of HD 209458b
- H. Knutson, D. Charbonneau, R. Noyes, T. Brown, R. Gilliland
- Physics
- 20 March 2006
We use multiband photometry to refine estimates for the planetary radius and orbital inclination of the transiting planet system HD 209458. We gathered 1066 spectra over four distinct transits with… Expand
Atmospheric circulation of hot Jupiters: Coupled radiative-dynamical general circulation model simulations of HD 189733b and HD 209458b
- A. Showman, J. Fortney, +4 authors D. Charbonneau
- Physics
- 11 September 2008
We present global, three-dimensional numerical simulations of HD 189733b and HD 209458b that couple the atmospheric dynamics to a realistic representation of nongray cloud-free radiative transfer.… Expand
Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
- G. Ricker, J. Winn, +55 authors J. Villasenor
- Geology, Environmental Science
- Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation
- 1 May 2009
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS ) will search for planets transiting bright and nearby stars. TESS has been selected by NASA for launch in 2017 as an Astrophysics Explorer mission.… Expand