Kepler Project Document: KSCI-19092: Planet Reliability Metrics: Astrophysical Positional Probabilities

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Kepler Project Document: KSCI-19092: Planet Reliability Metrics: Astrophysical Positional Probabilities

This document describes the Kepler astrophysical positional probabilities (APP) table hosted at the Exoplanet Archive1. This table lists the stars with the highest probability of being co-located with the source of an observed transit, as well as the probability of the transit being on an unknown background source. The position of the transit signal source relative to the target star is found in the KOI tables at the Exoplanet Archive. These probabilities measure how well a star’s location matches the location of the transit signal – they do not measure the probability that the transit signal is consistent with a planet orbiting that star.

This dataset or service is made available by the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute at IPAC, which is operated by the California Institute of Technology under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

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https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/docs/KSCI-19092-002.pdf

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13 Nov 2015