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Revised Stellar Properties of Kepler Targets for the Q1-17 (DR25) Transit Detection Run

Journal

ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES
Volume 229, Issue 2, Pages -

Publisher

IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/229/2/30

Keywords

catalogs; planetary systems; stars: distances; stars: evolution; stars: fundamental parameters

Funding

  1. National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NNX14AB92G]
  2. Australian Research Council [DE140101364]
  3. NASA by the Space Telescope Science Institute [HST-HF2-51335]
  4. NASA [NAS5-26555]

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The determination of exoplanet properties and occurrence rates using Kepler data critically depends on our knowledge of the fundamental properties (such as temperature, radius, and mass) of the observed stars. We present revised stellar properties for 197,096 Kepler targets observed between Quarters 1-17 (Q1-17), which were used for the final transiting planet search run by the Kepler Mission (Data Release 25, DR25). Similar to the Q1-16 catalog by Huber et al., the classifications are based on conditioning published atmospheric parameters on a grid of Dartmouth isochrones, with significant improvements in the adopted method and over 29,000 new sources for temperatures, surface gravities, or metallicities. In addition to fundamental stellar properties, the new catalog also includes distances and extinctions, and we provide posterior samples for each stellar parameter of each star. Typical uncertainties are similar to 27% in radius, similar to 17% in mass, and similar to 51% in density, which is somewhat smaller than previous catalogs because of the larger number of improved log g constraints and the inclusion of isochrone weighting when deriving stellar posterior distributions. On average, the catalog includes a significantly larger number of evolved solar-type stars, with an increase of 43.5% in the number of subgiants. We discuss the overall changes of radii and masses of Kepler targets as a function of spectral type, with a particular focus on exoplanet host stars.

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