Peter Tenenbaum, Jessie L. Christiansen, Jon M. Jenkins, Jason F. Rowe, Shawn Seader, Douglas A. Caldwell, Bruce D. Clarke, Jie Li, Elisa V. Quintana, Jeffrey C. Smith, Martin C. Stumpe, Susan E. Thompson, Joseph D. Twicken, Jeffrey Van Cleve, William J. Borucki, Miles T. Cote, Michael R. Haas, Dwight T. Sanderfer, Forrest R. Girouard, Todd C. Klaus, Christopher K. Middour, Bill Wohler, Natalie M. Batalha, Thomas Barclay, James E. Nickerson
We present the results of a search for potential transit signals in the first
three quarters of photometry data acquired by the Kepler Mission. The targets
of the search include 151,722 stars which were observed over the full interval
and an additional 19,132 stars which were observed for only 1 or 2 quarters.
From this set of targets we find a total of 5,392 detections which meet the
Kepler detection criteria: those criteria are periodicity of the signal, an
acceptable signal-to-noise ratio, and a composition test which rejects spurious
detections which contain non-physical combinations of events. The detected
signals are dominated by events with relatively low signal-to-noise ratio and
by events with relatively short periods. The distribution of estimated transit
depths appears to peak in the range between 40 and 100 parts per million, with
a few detections down to fewer than 10 parts per million. The detected signals
are compared to a set of known transit events in the Kepler field of view which
were derived by a different method using a longer data interval; the comparison
shows that the current search correctly identified 88.1% of the known events. A
tabulation of the detected transit signals, examples which illustrate the
analysis and detection process, a discussion of future plans and open,
potentially fruitful, areas of further research are included.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.1048
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