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Hundreds of Planet Candidates from K2

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Ethan Kruse@ethan_kruse

4 June 2018

Collaborators:Eric Agol

Rodrigo LugerDan Foreman-Mackey

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Outline

✦Intro to Kepler & K2

✦Methods & Why Blue Waters

✦Results & Future Plans

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Finding Transiting Planets

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✦Depths

✦Earth: 0.01%

✦Jupiter: 1%

✦Odds of transit at 1AU: 1 in 200

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Finding Transiting Planets

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✦Depths

✦Earth: 0.01%

✦Jupiter: 1%

✦Odds of transit at 1AU: 1 in 200

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Kepler Telescope

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✦Launched 2009

✦1.4 m mirror

✦96 Megapixel camera

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Kepler Field of View

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Kepler Planets (2009-2011)

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Kepler Planets (2009-2011)

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Kepler Planets (2009-2013)

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2013 Disaster

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2013 Disaster

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2013 Disaster

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2013 Disaster

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2013 Disaster

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K2 Overview

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K2 Overview

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K2 Overview

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K2 Degraded Quality

Kepler star (4x5 pixels)

K2: TRAPPIST-1 (11x11 pixels)

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K2 Degraded Quality

Kepler star (4x5 pixels)

K2: TRAPPIST-1 (11x11 pixels)

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Outline

✦Intro to Kepler & K2

✦Methods & Why Blue Waters

✦Results & Future Plans

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EVEREST: Fix K2’s Data Quality

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Luger et al. (2016)

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Finding Planets

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✦Unknown parameters:

✦Depth (~10)

✦Duration (16)

✦Period + Phase (7000)

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Blue Waters Assist

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✦4D grid of parameters to search

✦~1 million grid points per star

✦Searching 1 star takes ~30 minutes

✦500,000 stars to search

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Outline

✦Intro to Kepler & K2

✦Methods & Why Blue Waters

✦Results & Future Plans

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My K2 Planet Candidates

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Period Ratios

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What’s Next: TESS

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TESS Data Challenge

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TESS Data Challenge

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Conclusions

✦EVEREST returns K2 data to Kepler’s quality

✦I’ve found lots of multi-planet & dynamically active systems in K2

✦Only half of K2 data analyzed so far: hundreds more planets to come!

✦TESS is about to change everything

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TTVs

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Ultra Short Periods

P=0.47d P=0.71d

P=0.77d P=0.57d

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Single Transits

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