A CATALOG OF KEPLER HABITABLE ZONE EXOPLANET CANDIDATES

@article{Kane2016ACO,
  title={A CATALOG OF KEPLER HABITABLE ZONE EXOPLANET CANDIDATES},
  author={Stephen R. Kane and Michelle L. Hill and James F. Kasting and Ravi kumar Kopparapu and Elisa V. Quintana and Thomas Barclay and Natalie M. Batalha and William J. Borucki and David R. Ciardi and Nader Haghighipour and Natalie R. Hinkel and Lisa Kaltenegger and Franck Selsis and Guillermo Torres},
  journal={The Astrophysical Journal},
  year={2016},
  volume={830}
}
The NASA Kepler mission ha s discovered thousands of new planetary candidates, many of which have been confirmed through follow-up observations. A primary goal of the mission is to determine the occurrence rate of terrestrial-size planets within the Habitable Zone (HZ) of their host stars. Here we provide a list of HZ exoplanet candidates from the Kepler Q1–Q17 Data Release 24 data-vetting process. This work was undertaken as part of the Kepler HZ Working Group. We use a variety of criteria… 
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