197 CANDIDATES AND 104 VALIDATED PLANETS IN K2's FIRST FIVE FIELDS
197 CANDIDATES AND 104 VALIDATED PLANETS IN K2's FIRST FIVE FIELDS
We present 197 planet candidates discovered using data from the first year of the NASA K2 mission (Campaigns 0-4), along with the results of an intensive program of photometric analyses, stellar spectroscopy, high-resolution imaging, and statistical validation. We distill these candidates into sets of 104 validated planets (57 in multi-planet …