ARCHITECTURE OF KEPLER 'S MULTI-TRANSITING SYSTEMS. II. NEW INVESTIGATIONS WITH TWICE AS MANY CANDIDATES

We report on the orbital architectures of Kepler systems having multiple-planet candidates identified in the analysis of data from the first six quarters of Kepler data and reported by Batalha et al. (2013). These data show 899 transiting planet candidates in 365 multiple-planet systems and provide a powerful means to study the statistical properties of planetary systems. Using a generic mass–radius relationship, we find that only two pairs of planets in these candidate systems (out of 761 pairs total) appear to be on Hill-unstable orbits, indicating ~96% of the candidate planetary systems are correctly interpreted as true systems. We find that planet pairs show little statistical preference to be near…

• NS
  National Science Foundation

  Awards: 0645416, 0802270, DGE-0802270, 0707203, NAS 5-26555
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  National Aeronautics and Space Administration

  Awards: NAS 5-26555, NNX08AR04G, 5-26555
• PS
  Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium
• ST
  Space Telescope Science Institute

  Awards: NAS 5-26555, 5-26555, 26555
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  Science Mission Directorate

  Award: NAS 5-26555