Kepler Presearch Data Conditioning II - A Bayesian Approach to Systematic Error Correction

no code implementations • 7 Mar 2012 • Jeffrey C. Smith, Martin C. Stumpe, Jeffrey E. Van Cleve, Jon M. Jenkins, Thomas S. Barclay, Michael N. Fanelli, Forrest R. Girouard, Jeffery J. Kolodziejczak, Sean D. McCauliff, Robert L. Morris, Joseph D. Twicken

These errors, which include discontinuities, outliers, systematic trends and other instrumental signatures, obscure astrophysical signals.

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Applications

Kepler Presearch Data Conditioning I - Architecture and Algorithms for Error Correction in Kepler Light Curves

no code implementations • 7 Mar 2012 • Martin C. Stumpe, Jeffrey C. Smith, Jeffrey E. Van Cleve, Joseph D. Twicken, Thomas S. Barclay, Michael N. Fanelli, Forrest R. Girouard, Jon M. Jenkins, Jeffery J. Kolodziejczak, Sean D. McCauliff, Robert L. Morris

This new PDC version, which utilizes a Bayesian approach for removal of systematics, reliably corrects errors in the light curves while at the same time preserving planet transits and other astrophysically interesting signals.

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Applications