Modeling Kepler transit light curves as false positives: Rejection of blend scenarios for Kepler-9, and validation of Kepler-9 d, a super-earth-size planet in a multiple system

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 727, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Torres, Guillermo ^a   Fressin, François ^a   Batalha, Natalie M ^b   Borucki, William J ^c   Brown, Timothy M ^d   Bryson, Stephen T ^c   Buchhave, Lars A ^e   Charbonneau, David ^a   Ciardi, David R ^f   Dunham, Edward W ^g   Fabrycky, Daniel C ^a   Ford, Eric B ^h   Gautier III, Thomas N ⁱ   Gilliland, Ronald L ^j   Holman, Matthew J ^a   Howell, Steve B ^k   Isaacson, Howard ^l   Jenkins, Jon M ^c   Koch, David G ^c   Latham, David W ^a   Lissauer, Jack J ^c   Marcy, Geoffrey W ^m   Monet, David G ⁿ   Prsa, Andrej ^o   Quinn, Samuel N ^a   Ragozzine, Darin ^a   Rowe, Jason F ^c   Sasselov, Dimitar D ^a   Steffen, Jason H ^p   Welsh, William F ^q   more..

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d LAS CUMBRES OBSERVATORY GLOBAL TELESCOPE NETWORK   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^f CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g LOWELL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

ⁱ CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^j AURA for the European Space Agency   (United States)

^k NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^l SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁿ FLAGSTAFF STATION   (United States)

^o VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^p NASA FERMILAB ASTROPHYSICS CENTER   (United States)

^q SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Binaries: eclipsing; Planetary systems; Stars: individual (Kepler 9, KIC 3323887, KOI 377); Stars: statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891228001     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/727/1/24     Document Type: Article

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