The California-Kepler Survey. II. Precise Physical Properties of 2025
  Kepler Planets and Their Host Stars

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We present stellar and planetary properties for 1305 Kepler Objects of Interest (KOIs) hosting 2025 planet candidates observed as part of the California-Kepler Survey. We combine spectroscopic constraints, presented in Paper I, with isochrone modeling to estimate stellar masses, radii, and ages. Stellar radii are constrained to 9%, compared to typically 42% when only photometric constraints are used. Stellar masses are constrained to 5%, and ages are constrained to a factor of two. We verify the integrity of the stellar parameters through comparisons with asteroseismic studies and Gaia parallaxes. We also recompute planetary radii for 2025 planet candidates. Because knowledge of planetary radii is often limited by uncertainties in stellar size, we improve the uncertainties in planet radii from typically 42% to 11%. We also leverage improved knowledge in stellar effective temperature to recompute incident stellar fluxes for the planets, now accurate to 19%, compared to a factor of two when derived from photometry.

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Prevalence of Earth-size planets orbiting Sun-like stars

Geoffrey Marcy, Andrew Howard, Erik Petigura (2013)

Determining whether Earth-like planets are common or rare looms as a touchstone in the question of life in the universe. We searched for Earth-size planets that cross in front of their host stars by examining the brightness measurements of 42,000 stars from National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Kepler mission. We found 603 planets, including 10 that are Earth size (1-2 Earth-radii) and receive comparable levels of stellar energy to that of Earth (within a factor of four). We account for Kepler's imperfect detectability of such planets by injecting synthetic planet-caused dimmings into the Kepler brightness measurements and recording the fraction detected. We find that \(11\pm4%\) of Sun-like stars harbor an Earth-size planet receiving between one and four times the stellar intensity as Earth. We also find that the occurrence of Earth-size planets is constant with increasing orbital period (P), within equal intervals of logP up to \(\sim200\) d. Extrapolating, one finds \(5.7^{+1.7}_{-2.2}%\) of Sun-like stars harbor an Earth-size planet with orbital periods of 200-400 d.