• A First Comparison of Kepler Planet Candidates in Single and Multiple Systems 

      Latham, David W.; Rowe, Jason F.; Quinn, Samuel N.; Batalha, Natalie M.; Borucki, William J.; Brown, Timothy M.; Bryson, Stephen T.; Buchhave, Lars A.; Caldwell, Douglas A.; Carter, Joshua A.; Christiansen, Jessie L.; Ciardi, David R.; Cochran, William D.; Dunham, Edward W.; Fabrycky, Daniel C.; Ford, Eric B.; Gautier, Thomas N., III; Gilliland, Ronald L.; Holman, Matthew J.; Howell, Steve B.; Ibrahim, Khadeejah A.; Isaacson, Howard; Jenkins, Jon M.; Koch, David G.; Lissauer, Jack J.; Marcy, Geoffrey W.; Quintana, Elisa V.; Ragozzine, Darin; Sasselov, Dimitar; Shporer, Avi; Steffen, Jason H.; Welsh, William F.; Wohler, Bill (2011-05)
      In this Letter, we present an overview of the rich population of systems with multiple candidate transiting planets found in the first four months of Kepler data. The census of multiples includes 115 targets that show two ...
    • KOI-54: The Kepler Discovery of Tidally Excited Pulsations and Brightenings in a Highly Eccentric Binary 

      Welsh, William F.; Orosz, Jerome A.; Aerts, Conny; Brown, Timothy M.; Brugamyer, Erik; Cochran, William D.; Gilliland, Ronald L.; Guzik, Joyce Ann; Kurtz, D. W.; Latham, David W.; Marcy, Geoffrey W.; Quinn, Samuel N.; Zima, Wolfgang; Allen, Christopher; Batalha, Natalie M.; Bryson, Steve; Buchhave, Lars A.; Caldwell, Douglas A.; Gautier, Thomas N., III; Howell, Steve B.; Kinemuchi, K.; Ibrahim, Khadeejah A.; Isaacson, Howard; Jenkins, Jon M.; Prsa, Andrej; Still, Martin; Street, Rachel; Wohler, Bill; Koch, David G.; Borucki, William J. (2011-11)
      Kepler observations of the star HD 187091 (KIC 8112039, hereafter KOI-54) revealed a remarkable light curve exhibiting sharp periodic brightening events every 41.8 days with a superimposed set of oscillations forming a ...
    • The Neptune-Sized Circumbinary Planet Kepler-38B 

      Orosz, Jerome A.; Welsh, William F.; Carter, Joshua A.; Brugamyer, Erik; Buchhave, Lars A.; Cochran, William D.; Endl, Michael; Ford, Eric B.; MacQueen, Phillip; Short, Donald R.; Torres, Guillermo; Windmiller, Gur; Agol, Eric; Barclay, Thomas; Caldwell, Douglas A.; Clarke, Bruce D.; Doyle, Laurance R.; Fabrycky, Daniel C.; Geary, John C.; Haghighipour, Nader; Holman, Matthew J.; Ibrahim, Khadeejah A.; Jenkins, Jon M.; Kinemuchi, Karen; Li, Jie; Lissauer, Jack J.; Prsa, Andrej; Ragozzine, Darin; Shporer, Avi; Still, Martin; Wade, Richard A. (2012-10)
      We discuss the discovery and characterization of the circumbinary planet Kepler-38b. The stellar binary is single-lined, with a period of 18.8 days, and consists of a moderately evolved main-sequence star (M-A = 0.949+/-0.059 ...
    • Planetary Candidates Observed by Kepler. III. Analysis of the First 16 Months of Data 

      Batalha, Natalie M.; Rowe, Jason F.; Bryson, Stephen T.; Barclay, Thomas; Burke, Christopher J.; Caldwell, Douglas A.; Christiansen, Jessie L.; Mullally, Fergal; Thompson, Susan E.; Brown, Timothy M.; Dupree, Andrea K.; Fabrycky, Daniel C.; Ford, Eric B.; Fortney, Jonathan J.; Gilliland, Ronald L.; Isaacson, Howard; Latham, David W.; Marcy, Geoffrey W.; Quinn, Samuel N.; Ragozzine, Darin; Shporer, Avi; Borucki, William J.; Ciardi, David R.; Gautier, Thomas N., III; Haas, Michael R.; Jenkins, Jon M.; Koch, David G.; Lissauer, Jack J.; Rapin, William; Basri, Gibor S.; Boss, Alan P.; Buchhave, Lars A.; Carter, Joshua A.; Charbonneau, David; Christensen-Dalsgaard, Joergen; Clarke, Bruce D.; Cochran, William D.; Demory, Brice-Olivier; Desert, Jean-Michel; Devore, Edna; Doyle, Laurance R.; Esquerdo, Gilbert A.; Everett, Mark; Fressin, Francois; Geary, John C.; Girouard, Forrest R.; Gould, Alan; Hall, Jennifer R.; Holman, Matthew J.; Howard, Andrew W.; Howell, Steve B.; Ibrahim, Khadeejah A.; Kinemuchi, Karen; Kjeldsen, Hans; Klaus, Todd C.; Li, Jie; Lucas, Philip W.; Meibom, Soren; Morris, Robert L.; Prsa, Andrej; Quintana, Elisa; Sanderfer, Dwight T.; Sasselov, Dimitar; Seader, Shawn E.; Smith, Jeffrey C.; Steffen, Jason H.; Still, Martin; Stumpe, Martin C.; Tarter, Jill C.; Tenenbaum, Peter; Torres, Guillermo; Twicken, Joseph D.; Uddin, Kamal; Van Cleve, Jeffrey; Walkowicz, Lucianne; Welsh, William F. (2013-02)
      New transiting planet candidates are identified in 16 months (2009 May-2010 September) of data from the Kepler spacecraft. Nearly 5000 periodic transit-like signals are vetted against astrophysical and instrumental false ...
    • Relationship Between Low And High Frequencies In Delta Scuti Stars: Photometric Kepler And Spectroscopic Analyses Of The Rapid Rotator KIC 8054146 

      Breger, Michel; Fossati, L.; Balona, L.; Kurtz, D. W.; Robertson, Paul; Bohlender, D.; Lenz, P.; Mueller, I.; Lueftinger, T.; Clarke, B. D.; Hall, Jennifer R.; Ibrahim, Khadeejah A. (2012-11)
      Two years of Kepler data of KIC 8054146 (delta Sct/gamma Dor hybrid) revealed 349 statistically significant frequencies between 0.54 and 191.36 cycles day(-1) (6.3 mu Hz to 2.21 mHz). The 117 low frequencies cluster in ...
    • A Search For Exozodiacal Clouds With Kepler 

      Stark, Christopher C.; Boss, Alan P.; Weinberger, Alycia J.; Jackson, Brian K.; Endl, Michael; Cochran, William D.; Johnson, Marshall; Caldwell, Caroline; Agol, Eric; Ford, Eric B.; Hall, Jennifer R.; Ibrahim, Khadeejah A.; Li, Jie (2013-02)
      Planets embedded within dust disks may drive the formation of large scale clumpy dust structures by trapping dust into resonant orbits. Detection and subsequent modeling of the dust structures would help constrain the mass ...