THE FALSE POSITIVE RATE OF<i>KEPLER</i>AND THE OCCURRENCE OF PLANETS
THE FALSE POSITIVE RATE OF<i>KEPLER</i>AND THE OCCURRENCE OF PLANETS
The Kepler Mission is uniquely suited to study the frequencies of extrasolar planets. This goal requires knowledge of the incidence of false positives such as eclipsing binaries in the background of the targets, or physically bound to them, which can mimic the photometric signal of a transiting planet. We perform …