ABSTRACT
CONTENTS 17.1 Introduction 355 17.2 An Overview of the Kepler SOC Pipeline 358
17.2.1 Pixel-Level CAL 359 17.2.2 Photometric Analysis 360 17.2.3 Systematic Error Corrections 361 17.2.4 Transiting Planet Search 362
17.2.4.1 A Wavelet-Based Matched Filter 362 17.2.5 Data Validation 366
17.3 A Bayesian Approach to Correcting Systematic Errors 368 17.3.1 The Problem with PDC 368 17.3.2 Why Should We Hope to Do Better? 370 17.3.3 The MAP Approach 371 17.3.4 An Application of MAP to Kepler Data 373 17.3.5 Empirical MAP Implementation Considerations 377
17.4 Conclusions 377 Acknowledgments 378 References 379
17.1 INTRODUCTION The search for exoplanets is one of the hottest topics in astronomy and astrophysics in the twenty-first century, capturing the public’s attention as well as that of the astronomical community. This nascent field was conceived in 1989 with the discovery of a candidate planetary companion to HD114762 [35] and was born in 1995 with the discovery of the first extrasolar planet 51 Peg-b [37] orbiting a main sequence star.
