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post Dec 27 2011, 09:53 PM
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Maybe there will be some announcements along precisely those lines at this conference in a few weeks...

http://www.mpia-hd.mpg.de/PLANETS2012/index.html

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post Jan 26 2012, 11:03 PM
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/...20126155915.htm

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NASA's Kepler Announces 11 New Planetary Systems Hosting 26 Planets

ScienceDaily (Jan. 26, 2012) — NASA's Kepler mission has discovered 11 new planetary systems hosting 26 confirmed planets. These discoveries nearly double the number of verified Kepler planets and triple the number of stars known to have more than one planet that transits
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post Jan 27 2012, 12:16 PM
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WONDEROUS! and WEIRD ... What a Universe we inhabit.

NASA's Kepler announces 11 planetary systems hosting 26 planets

From the KEPLER web site - more details
http://kepler.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm?Fuse...&NewsID=182

Papers:
Kepler-23 and Kepler-24 - Transit Timing Observations from Kepler: II. Confirmation of Two Multiplanet Systems via a Non-parametric Correlation Analysis. Confirms KOI-168=Kepler-23 and KOI 1102=Kepler-24
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1201.5409.pdf

Kepler-25, 26, 27 and 28 - Transit Timing Observations From Kepler: IV. Confirmation Of 4 Multiple Planet Systems By Simple Physical Models
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1201.5412.pdf

Kepler-29, 30, 31 and 32 - Transit Timing Observations from Kepler: III. Confirmation of 4 Multiple Planet Systems by a Fourier-Domain Study of Anti-correlated Transit Timing Variations
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1201.5415v1.pdf

kepler-33 - Almost All of Kepler's Multiple Planet Candidates are Planets, and Kepler-33 5-planet system
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1201.5424v1.pdf

Enjoy
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post Feb 17 2012, 03:11 AM
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Kepler has found lots of 'Hot Jupiters' in its survey thus far. Are there models that would indicate the chance that the equivalent of our Kuiper Belt might exist in those systems?

What if 'hot KBOs' are floating in 'habitable zones'?
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post Feb 17 2012, 04:27 AM
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Wouldn't a hot KBO just be a really big comet?
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post Feb 17 2012, 06:40 AM
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...yep. And unless they were MUCH rockier than our KBOs are thought to be, they wouldn't last very long in terms of geological time...they'd become garden-variety asteroids in short order.

Let's not go off the deep end on the speculation front, please. Hot Jupiters, Neptunes, super-Earths, etc. are acceptable discussion topics since there is considerable observational evidence that they exist. I'm sure as time marches on exo-solar system research will provide even more surprises for us to discuss.


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post Feb 17 2012, 08:33 AM
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Seems like the very shallow end of speculation to me. Actually, just an innocent question. smile.gif

One interesting answer to the 'Hot Jupiter planetary model' question exists here:

http://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questio...their-host-star

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There is mounting evidence from the Kepler mission that these hot Jupiters migrated in by scattering other planets out.


Sorry I asked.
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post Feb 28 2012, 04:27 PM
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.5852

New release: more planets, developing trends.
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post Feb 28 2012, 09:36 PM
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Thanks for the link!
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post Feb 29 2012, 07:26 PM
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KEPLER 02.28.2012 release news
http://kepler.nasa.gov/news/index.cfm?Fuse...&NewsID=190

Go to Nasa Planet Archive to download a spreadsheet with updated Kepler candidate data from the 02.28.2012 release.
Need to use firefox browser
http://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/c...xotbls?kepler=1

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post Mar 8 2012, 04:36 PM
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One report out today on Space Daily suggests that exact earth analogs are relatively rare. Less than one per cent of all stellar systems will have one, if this analysis turns out to be correct.

Earthlike Planets Very Rare

Not what most of us want, but if it's true, then it is what it is.

Edit: When I posted I hadn't noticed who the author of the paper was. If I had, I certainly would have mentioned it. Sorry about that John.
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post Mar 8 2012, 05:54 PM
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How many of the 158,000 stars are tilted enough that their planets wouldn't transit Kepler's pov?

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post Mar 8 2012, 07:02 PM
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It's worth noting (a point I trimmed from the article) that the bin for earth-sized planets with periods of 64 to 128 days has zero observed candidates although in the 407 days of observations, any such world must have transited between three and seven times while Kepler was watching (discounting the possible lapses of downtime), and so we aren't actually waiting, as the mission goes on, to see any new transits there: As the mission goes on, any such planet will only repeat what it's already done (e.g., transit, and be missed in the noise, or not transit... or not exist).

That's a bin two slots to the left (two powers of two shorter) than the Earth itself, and Kepler found none. The prospects for the Earth's actual bin are distinctly poorer. Kepler did, however, find five candidates in the bin corresponding to periods of 64 to 128 days and sizes one notch larger than Earth: worlds with radii 1.2 to 1.4 Re. That corresponds to a 2% abundance of such worlds, and every trend indicating continued drop-off with smaller sizes and greater distance.

re: Brellis's question, the probability of a randomly-placed observer being situated for the geometry to allow them to witness the Earth transiting the Sun is 0.29%. For a world twice as far out, the probability is half that. For a world twice as close, the probability is double that. In our solar system, the easiest worlds for Kepler to detect would be, in descending order: Venus, Earth, Jupiter, Saturn. As of this release, an exact Venus analogue *could* have been detected, but wasn't.

Kepler could detect exact analogues of almost any of the planets in the solar system, given the right luck and an un-noisy enough star. At levels of noise in the present analyses, it now seems quite unlikely that the abundance of terrestrial worlds in the habitable zone will be high enough for us to get good statistics on the frequency function out that far. We could always luck into a single detection, but getting statistical significance seems very unlikely. This highlights the importance either of ways to find repeated transits buried deep in the noise or follow-up missions that monitor a yet-larger number of stars.
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post Mar 8 2012, 10:36 PM
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John,
I was unsure in the article what you did to de-bias the frequency (or is that a reference to a pre-processed value provided by the Kepler team?). Are you modifying each frequency bin by the chance to detect an earth-like planet at that bin?

Edit:
I also repeat the question left on the article - Are these sun-like stars, or is there a bias in this dataset to stars of a different size than the sun? Many more small stars in the galaxy, larger stars are easier to see at a distance. Really needs a 3-d representation with star's mass or radius as another axis, and possibly a 4D representation with the star's metallicity or distance from Earth.


Edit^2: Nevermind, I see where you responded that the data is all stars lumped together, and that there isn't enough data to separate the stars into separate bins.


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post Mar 8 2012, 10:43 PM
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Great to see you posting again JRehling. smile.gif Here's what I take from the Kepler release.
1/ 0.7% is plenty. I reckon that means about 100 within 100LY
2/ The estimate is premature. Let's wait for the full data set and the long analysis.
3/ I've heard it stated (in the infamous IAU debate on the definition of "planet") that the solar system is dynamically 'full' in the sense that the planets are packed together as closely as possible apart from the gap where the asteroid belt is located. The dense compact systems Kepler has found seem to contradict this hypothesis, unless in fact they are young systems that will in due course eject or swallow most of the objects now observed.
4/ I love all these planets and their extreme diversity, no doubt arising from peculiar histories yet to be elucidated. (Just look at the Iapetus 'fairy tale' for an example of reality exceeding imagination.)
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