Exoplanet Transit Analysis of KIC 8462852

KIC 8462852 was among the ~100k stars observed by NASA’s Kepler satellite over its primary mission. Unlike a typical exoplanet harboring star, its light curve exhibits an abnormal shape with multiple unexpectedly large depths. Several explanations for this behavior have been presented, such as circumstellar dust or a family of comets in orbit around the star as being the source of its fluctuations in brightness. We focus on the exoplanet hypothesis and apply the analysis of the transit detection method to KIC 8462852’s light curve. From this method we determined radii and semi-major axes of possible exoplanets in the range of 0.7 to 7.21 M_J (Jupiter Masses) and 8.27 to 402.65 AU, respectively. By method of maximum likelihood, we fit probability distribution functions to histograms of observed planet radii and semi-major axes. Using these functions to calculate tail-probabilities for the planet masses and orbital semi-major axes from our transit analysis, we determined that our exoplanets have a probability of being drawn from observed distributions of 2.41 x 10^-163 to 7.59 x 10^-5 % and therefore verify the improbability of the exoplanet explanation hypothesis.