Planet candidates from K2 Campaigns 1-13

Accurate and precise radius estimates of transiting exoplanets are critical for understanding their compositions and formation mechanisms. To know the planet, we must know the host star in as much detail as possible. We present complete results for planet-candidate hosts from the K2-HERMES survey, which uses the HERMES multi-object spectrograph on the Anglo-Australian Telescope to obtain R~28000 spectra for more than 30000 K2 stars. We present complete host-star parameters and planet-candidate radii for 224 K2 candidate planets from C1-C13. Our results cast severe doubt on 30 K2 candidates, as we derive unphysically large radii, larger than 2R_Jup_. This work highlights the importance of obtaining accurate, precise, and self-consistent stellar parameters for ongoing large planet search programs - something that will only become more important in the coming years, as TESS begins to deliver its own harvest of exoplanets.

Cone search capability for table J/MNRAS/496/851/table1 (Stellar parameters derived from seismology, and comparison with the spectroscopic results from K2-HERMES)

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Identifier
Source https://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/496/851
Related Identifier https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/MNRAS/496/851
Related Identifier http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/MNRAS/496/851
Metadata Access http://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/pmh/pubreg.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_b2find&identifier=ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/496/851
Provenance
Creator Wittenmyer R.A.; Clark J.T.; Sharma S.; Stello D.; Horner J.; Kane S.R.,Stevens C.P.; Wright D.J.; Spina L.; Cotar K.; Asplund M.,Bland-Hawthorn J.; Buder S.; Casey A.R.; De Silva G.M.; D'Orazi V.,Freeman K.; Kos J.; Lewis G.; Lin J.; Lind K.; Martell S.L.; Simpson J.D.,Zucker D.B.; Zwitter T.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2023
Rights https://cds.unistra.fr/vizier-org/licences_vizier.html
OpenAccess true
Contact CDS support team <cds-question(at)unistra.fr>
Representation
Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Exoplanet Astronomy; Interdisciplinary Astronomy; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics; Stellar Astronomy