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Planet occurrence within 0.25AU of solar-type stars from Kepler

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Seager, Sara; Rogers, Leslie Anne
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We report the distribution of planets as a function of planet radius, orbital period, and stellar effective temperature for orbital periods less than 50 days around solar-type (GK) stars. These results are based on the 1235 planets (formally "planet candidates") from the Kepler mission that include a nearly complete set of detected planets as small as 2 R [subscript ⊕]. For each of the 156,000 target stars, we assess the detectability of planets as a function of planet radius, R [subscript p], and orbital period, P, using a measure of the detection efficiency for each star. We also correct for the geometric probability of transit, R ★/a. We consider first Kepler target stars within the "solar subset" having T [subscript eff] = 4100-6100 K, log g = 4.0-4.9, and Kepler magnitude Kp < 15 mag, i.e., bright, main-sequence GK stars. We include only those stars having photometric noise low enough to permit detection of planets down to 2 R [subscript ⊕]. We count planets in small domains of R [subscript p] and P and divide by the included target stars to calculate planet occurrence in each domain. The resulting occurrence of planets varies by more than three orders of magnitude in the radius-orbital period plane and increases substantially down to the smallest radius (2 R [subscript ⊕]) and out to the longest orbital period (50 days, ~0.25 AU) in our study. For P < 50 days, the distribution of planet radii is given by a power law, df/dlog R = k[subscript R]R [superscript α] with k[subscript R] = 2.9[superscript +0.5] [subscript – 0.4], α = –1.92 ± 0.11, and R ≡ R [subscript p]/R ⊕. This rapid increase in planet occurrence with decreasing planet size agrees with the prediction of core-accretion formation but disagrees with population synthesis models that predict a desert at super-Earth and Neptune sizes for close-in orbits. Planets with orbital periods shorter than 2 days are extremely rare; for R p > 2 R [subscript ⊕] we measure an occurrence of less than 0.001 planets per star. For all planets with orbital periods less than 50 days, we measure occurrence of 0.130 ± 0.008, 0.023 ± 0.003, and 0.013 ± 0.002 planets per star for planets with radii 2-4, 4-8, and 8-32 R [subscript ⊕], in agreement with Doppler surveys. We fit occurrence as a function of P to a power-law model with an exponential cutoff below a critical period P [subscript 0]. For smaller planets, P [subscript 0] has larger values, suggesting that the "parking distance" for migrating planets moves outward with decreasing planet size. We also measured planet occurrence over a broader stellar T [subscript eff] range of 3600-7100 K, spanning M0 to F2 dwarfs. Over this range, the occurrence of 2-4 R [subscript ⊕] planets in the Kepler field increases with decreasing T [subscript eff], with these small planets being seven times more abundant around cool stars (3600-4100 K) than the hottest stars in our sample (6600-7100 K).
Date issued
2012-06
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/74190
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Journal
Astrophysical Journal. Supplement Series
Publisher
IOP Publishing
Citation
Howard, Andrew W. et al. “Planet occurrence within 0.25AU of solar-type stars from Kepler.” The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 201.2 (2012): 15. © 2012 IOP Publishing
Version: Final published version
ISSN
0067-0049
1538-4365

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