Using Final Kepler Catalog Completeness and Reliability Products in Exoplanet Occurrence Rate Estimates
Abstract
Burke et. al. 2015 presented an exoplanet occurrence rate estimate based on the Q1-Q16 Kepler Planet Candidate catalog. That catalog featured uniform planet candidate vetting and analytic approximations to the detection completeness (the fraction of true planets that would be detected) for each target star. We present an extension of that occurrence rate work using the final DR25 Kepler Planet Candidate catalog products, which uses higher-accuracy detection completeness data for each target star, and adds estimates of vetting completeness (the fraction of detected true planets correctly identified as planet candidates) and vetting reliability (the fraction of planet candidates that are true planets). These completeness and reliability products are based on synthetic manipulations of Kepler data, including transit injection, data scrambling, and inversion. We describe how each component is incorporated into the occurrence rate estimate, and how they impact the occurrence rate estimate both individually and in combination. We discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the completeness and reliability products and how they impact our confidence in the occurrence rate values uncertainties. This work is an example of how the community can use the DR25 completeness and reliability products, which are publicly available at the NASA Exoplanet Archive (http://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu) and the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (http://archive.stsci.edu/kepler).
- Publication:
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American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #231
- Pub Date:
- January 2018
- Bibcode:
- 2018AAS...23140306B