A STUDY OF THE SHORTEST-PERIOD PLANETS FOUND WITH KEPLER

• Published in: The Astrophysical journal Vol. 787; no. 1; pp. 47 - 18
• Main Authors: Sanchis-Ojeda, Roberto, Rappaport, Saul, Winn, Joshua N., Kotson, Michael C., Levine, Alan, Mellah, Ileyk El
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 20.05.2014
• Subjects: APPROXIMATIONS; ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY; DETECTION; DWARF STARS; ECLIPSE; Extrasolar planets; Fourier analysis; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; Fourier transforms; IRRADIATION; JUPITER PLANET; ORBITS; Planets; SATELLITE ATMOSPHERES; SATELLITES; SPACE; SPACE VEHICLES; Spacecraft; SPECTRA; Stellar systems; Time series

We present the results of a survey aimed at discovering and studying transiting planets with orbital periods shorter than one day (ultra-short-period, or USP, planets), using data from the Kepler spacecraft. We computed Fourier transforms of the photometric time series for all 200,000 target stars,...