CHARACTERISTICS OF PLANETARY CANDIDATES OBSERVED BY<i>KEPLER</i>. II. ANALYSIS OF THE FIRST FOUR MONTHS OF DATA
CHARACTERISTICS OF PLANETARY CANDIDATES OBSERVED BY<i>KEPLER</i>. II. ANALYSIS OF THE FIRST FOUR MONTHS OF DATA
On 2011 February 1 the Kepler mission released data for 156,453 stars observed from the beginning of the science observations on 2009 May 2 through September 16. There are 1235 planetary candidates with transit-like signatures detected in this period. These are associated with 997 host stars. Distributions of the characteristics …