Todd C. Klaus

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors verified nearly 5000 periodic transit-like signals against astrophysical and instrumental false positives yielding 1108 viable new transiting planet candidates, bringing the total count up to over 2300.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the noise-weighted robust averaging of multi-quarter photo-center offsets derived from difference image analysis, which identifies likely background eclipsing binaries.

TL;DR: The first Earth-size exoplanet was discovered by NASA's Kepler mission as discussed by the authors, which used transit photometry to determine the frequency of Earthsize planets in or near the habitable zone of Sun-like stars.

TL;DR: The observed rate of circumbinary planets in this sample implies that more than ∼1% of close binary stars have giant planets in nearly coplanar orbits, yielding a Galactic population of at least several million.