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PostSubject: Re: Kepler News and Results (Thread 2)   Kepler News and Results (Thread 2) - Page 5 Empty13th October 2013, 10:33 am

NASAWatch: Now The Shutdown Is to Blame for Kepler Meeting Problems

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We have just learned that the efforts of NASA's Ames Research Center to ensure that our Chinese astronomer colleagues will be able to attend the Second Kepler Science Conference have been halted by the fact these approvals must be entered into a computer system at NASA HQ in Washington DC. Because of the ongoing federal government shutdown, there is no one at NASA HQ who can complete the approval process. Of course, if the federal shutdown continues much longer, the conference will not be able to begin as scheduled on November 3, 2013. We fear that the meeting may have to be cancelled as a result, or delayed. The ability of scientists to attend an open scientific meeting about the spectacular results produced by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope is another likely fatality of the failure of the U.S. Congress to enact a federal budget for FY2014. Alan Boss, SOC Co-Chair, KSC II
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PostSubject: Re: Kepler News and Results (Thread 2)   Kepler News and Results (Thread 2) - Page 5 Empty14th October 2013, 6:01 am

Kepler Finds First Signs of Other Earths

Looks like a few Earth analogues are starting to come out of the data.

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[url="http://carnegiescience.edu/news/found_planets_skimming_star%E2%80%99s_surface"]Planets Skimming a Star’s Surface[/url]

On litterature: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1308.1379v1.pdf

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Found: Planets Skimming a Star’s Surface

But "found" what? I don't think they've been confirmed. Or are they? Question 
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No. Fourth paragraph:
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If confirmed...

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Sirius_Alpha wrote:
No. Fourth paragraph:
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If confirmed...
As I thought. I don't get the reason for such press releases. Rolling Eyes
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Since the false positive probability is low, and the fact that we already have an example of such a planet, it may be reasonable to state that they have been found.

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PostSubject: Re: Kepler News and Results (Thread 2)   Kepler News and Results (Thread 2) - Page 5 Empty17th October 2013, 12:49 am

Late at night here, but the media outlets reported the shutdown finally ended tonight.

So hopefully R&D can resume soon. Smile

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PostSubject: Re: Kepler News and Results (Thread 2)   Kepler News and Results (Thread 2) - Page 5 Empty22nd October 2013, 9:31 pm

A seventh planet candidate at KOI-351.

Planet Hunters VI: The First Kepler Seven Planet Candidate System and 13 Other Planet Candidates from the Kepler Archival Data
http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.5912
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We report the discovery of 14 new transiting planet candidates in the Kepler field from the Planet Hunters citizen science program. None of these candidates overlap with Kepler Objects of Interest (KOIs), and five of the candidates were missed by the Kepler Transit Planet Search (TPS) algorithm. The new candidates have periods ranging from 124-904 days, eight residing in their host star's habitable zone (HZ) and two (now) in multiple planet systems. We report the discovery of one more addition to the six planet candidate system around KOI-351, marking the first seven planet candidate system from Kepler

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PostSubject: Re: Kepler News and Results (Thread 2)   Kepler News and Results (Thread 2) - Page 5 Empty23rd October 2013, 4:12 am

Nice.I knew they will find 7 transiting planets, maybe is more(non transiting) between 9 days and 59 or beyond currently farthest in this system
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A planet candidate only slightly larger than Earth in a 757-day orbit... around an A-type star! Even if it is too hot to be habitable, that's impressive if it can be confirmed.
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tommi59 wrote:
Nice.I knew they will find 7 transiting planets, maybe is more(non transiting) between 9 days and 59  or beyond currently farthest  in this system
Indeed rumours are there may be and ttvs are being scrutinised, but can't say more for now.

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A planet candidate only slightly larger than Earth in a 757-day orbit... around an A-type star! Even if it is too hot to be habitable, that's impressive if it can be confirmed.
Yeah that's one of the ones I found Very Happy , very sneaky indeed as it was hidden in poorly-calibrated data. Clear in the raw data though.
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Densities and Eccentricities of 163 Kepler Planets from Transit Time Variations
http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.7942

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We extract densities and eccentricities of 163 sub-Jovian planets by analyzing transit time variations (TTVs) obtained by the {\it Kepler} mission through Quarter 12. We partially circumvent the degeneracies that plague TTV inversion with the help of an analytical formula for the TTV. From the observed TTV phases, we find that most of these planets have eccentricities of order a few percent. More precisely, the r.m.s. eccentricity is 0.018+0.004−0.008, and planets smaller than 3R⊕ are around three times as eccentric as those bigger than 3R⊕. We also find a best-fit density-radius relationship ρ≈2.2 g/cm3×(R/3R⊕)−1.8 for the 64 planets that likely have small eccentricity and hence small statistical correction to their masses. Planets larger than 3R⊕ are mostly less dense than water, implying that their radii are largely set by a massive hydrogen atmosphere.
Looks like there's several planets in the 20 - 50 Earth-mass range that have densities greater than pure iron. Chthonian planets?

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Does this paper have… any detection criteria? Because there are a lot of 1σ (as in, the error is the same as the value) TTV values listed… which dutifully provide meaningless values for masses. I think that explains those rather outlandish densities.
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NASA Hosts Media Briefing To Discuss Kepler Results
http://www.nasa.gov/press/2013/october/nasa-hosts-media-briefing-to-discuss-kepler-results/#.UnK5AflwqSo

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NASA will video stream a news briefing at 10:15 a.m. PST (1:15 p.m. EST) Monday, Nov. 4, to announce new results from the agency's Kepler mission. The briefing, taking place during the Kepler Science Conference, will be in building 152 at NASA Research Park in Moffett Field, Calif.

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Does this paper have… any detection criteria? Because there are a lot of 1σ (as in, the error is the same as the value) TTV values listed… which dutifully provide meaningless values for masses. I think that explains those rather outlandish densities.
Bonus points for omitting the error values from the machine-readable table.

And converting between the given nominal masses and true masses depends on the eccentricity:
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If planets in a pair have very low eccentricities (e ≪ |∆|), the nominal masses are the true masses, whereas if the eccentricities are much higher than that (e ≫ |∆|), the nominal masses are overestimates of the true masses. For intermediate eccentricities (e ~ |∆|), the nominal and true masses differ by an order unity factor—they can be either smaller or larger depending on the phase of Zfree. Note that, as shown in Section 3.1, many systems have intermediate eccentricities.
At least the planets in the high-density region of figure 3 are represented by the diamond symbols that indicate the nominal densities are overestimates of the true density.
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New Kepler designation for confirmed Kepler Objects of Interests (KOIs): Kepler-89 for KOI-94 and Kepler-90 for KOI-351 systems.
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Sirius_Alpha wrote:
Densities and Eccentricities of 163 Kepler Planets from Transit Time Variations
http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.7942

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We extract densities and eccentricities of 163 sub-Jovian planets by analyzing transit time variations (TTVs) obtained by the {\it Kepler} mission through Quarter 12. We partially circumvent the degeneracies that plague TTV inversion with the help of an analytical formula for the TTV. From the observed TTV phases, we find that most of these planets have eccentricities of order a few percent. More precisely, the r.m.s. eccentricity is 0.018+0.004−0.008, and planets smaller than 3R⊕ are around three times as eccentric as those bigger than 3R⊕. We also find a best-fit density-radius relationship ρ≈2.2 g/cm3×(R/3R⊕)−1.8 for the 64 planets that likely have small eccentricity and hence small statistical correction to their masses. Planets larger than 3R⊕ are mostly less dense than water, implying that their radii are largely set by a massive hydrogen atmosphere.
Looks like there's several planets in the 20 - 50 Earth-mass range that have densities greater than pure iron. Chthonian planets?
Several of this planets are now on EPE.

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I also note that PH1 b has been merged with previous KIC identifier at last, although the catalog entry sounds a bit "awkward":

http://exoplanet.eu/catalog/ph1_b_equal_kepler-64_b/
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22±8% of sun-like stars have an Earth-sized planet in the habitable zone.
http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/info/press-releases/HabitablePlanetsCommon/

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http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.0248

Detection of Potential Transit Signals in Sixteen Quarters of Kepler Mission Data

We present the results of a search for potential transit signals in four years of photometry data acquired by the Kepler Mission. The targets of the search include 111,800 stars which were observed for the entire interval and 85,522 stars which were observed for a subset of the interval. We observed that 9,743 targets contained at least one signal consistent with the signature of a transiting planet, where the criteria for detection are periodicity of the detected transits, adequate signal-to-noise ratio, and acceptance by a number of tests which reject false positive detections. When targets that had produced a signal were searched repeatedly, an additional 6,542 signals were detected on 3,223 target stars, for a total of 16,285 potential transiting planet signatures. Comparison of the set of detected signals with a set of known and vetted transit events in the Kepler field of view shows that the recovery rate for these signals is 97.0%. The ensemble properties of the detected signals are reviewed

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22±8% of sun-like stars have an Earth-sized planet in the habitable zone.
http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/info/press-releases/HabitablePlanetsCommon/
Lots of big news in the newspapers.

The problem is that truly earths, in a conservative point of view, are only earth size plus or minus 20% in diameter. Superearths are not earths, at least for the moment.

Also very broad, the irradiance calculation. Sure you boys have a differente point of view, about this claim.

In my point of view, the true occurrence of earth analogs will be only 2-4 percent, in FGK stars, from the published results.
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From the UC Berkeley website
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The team’s definition of habitable is that a planet receives between four times and one-quarter the amount of light that Earth receives from the sun.
I would be interested to know what motivated this choice of HZ definition - hopefully the paper gives a good justification for it. Or is it to get a pleasingly large number for the headlines? Rolling Eyes
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