PRE-SPECTROSCOPIC FALSE-POSITIVE ELIMINATION OF <i>KEPLER</i> PLANET CANDIDATES
PRE-SPECTROSCOPIC FALSE-POSITIVE ELIMINATION OF <i>KEPLER</i> PLANET CANDIDATES
Ten days of commissioning data (Quarter 0) and thirty-three days of science data (Quarter 1) yield instrumental flux timeseries of ~150,000 stars that were combed for transit events, termed Threshold Crossing Events (TCE), each having a total detection statistic above 7.1-sigma. TCE light curves are modeled as star+planet systems. Those …