Past Exoplanet Archive News
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For news items prior to 2013, see the 2011-12 news.
April 11, 2013: Three planets have been added to the list of Confirmed Planets: HD 204313 d, HD 222155 b and HD 24040 b.
March 28, 2013: The planet PH1 b (Kepler-64b) has been added to the list of Confirmed Planets. This planet was discovered by the Planet Hunters team and orbits a binary star.
February 28, 2013: Two new planets have been added to the list of Confirmed Planets: WASP-64 b and WASP-72 b.
February 22, 2013: The Q1-Q6 Kepler Objects of Interest (KOI) list has been updated with the final set of parameters from the planet candidate appendix table of Batalha et al. (2013, ApJS, 204, 24) and the July 2012 False Positive table previously hosted at MAST. This table is considered "Done" by the Kepler Project; no further updates will be performed in this particular list.
February 21, 2013: Kepler light curve data sets for quarter 14 are now available in the archive. To access, click the Kepler Light Curves link on the left side of our home page.
February 20, 2013: Kepler 37 added to the list of Confirmed Planets: This system contains 3 planets, Kepler-37 b, Kepler-37 c, and Kepler-37 d, including the smallest planet found to date around a main sequence star.
Additionally, the planets HIP 11952 b and c have been removed from the Confirmed Planets list after publication of additional radial velocity observations (Desidera et al 2013).
February 14, 2013: Three new planets have been added to the list of Confirmed Planets: Kepler-68 b, Kepler-68 c, and Kepler-68 d.
February 13, 2013: KOI Cumulative and Q1-8 Dispositions Updated
The dispositions of twenty-three KOIs in the cumulative and Q1-8 tables have been updated from CANDIDATE to FALSE POSITIVE by the Kepler project as part of the vetting process. The current number of candidates in these tables is 2,717 and the updated rows can be viewed by sorting or filtering on the "Date of Last Update" column.
February 11, 2013: Exoplanet Archive updates
Several new capabilities are now available:- An interactive table with all Kepler confirmed planets, including their Kepler names, KOI number, KIC numbers and links to the data tables.
- The ability to search the TCE table using a list of KIC numbers via the table upload page.
- Additions to the KOI tables: separate columns for the Kepler pipeline and Exoplanet Archive dispositions, display of the vetting flag and update dates and adjustments to the displayed precisions.
January 28, 2013: Nine new planets have been added to the list of Confirmed Planets:BD-06 1339 b, BD-06 1339 c, HD 103774 b, HD 109271 b, HD 109271 c, Kepler-32 d, Kepler-32 e, Kepler-32 f, and MOA-2010-BLG-073L b. KOI-1725 b and KOI-1727 b have been re-classified as candidates pending publication of further validation information.
January 7, 2013: Kepler Object of Interest (KOI) list for Q1-8 released
The Kepler project has released the KOI list for the quarter 1-8 data as well as the cumulative KOI table, which compiles historical information from the individual KOI tables to provide the most accurate dispositions and stellar and planetary information in one place. The description of all available KOI tables is here. The cumulative KOI table contains 2740 candidates and confirmed planets and 801 false positives and can be accessed in an interactive table.
