KID 3847708 - APH0001285 - KOI 389

• by zoo3hans

  From the old PH Talk pages:

  kianjin in response to ggccg

  ggccg:
  
  Check out APH22175693. Looks to me like there are secondaries in many periods.
  

  Unfortunately this is KID 3847708, aka KOI-389.01, a Kepler false positive identified in the Feb 2011 data release - APO (Active Pixel Offset - the pixels showing the transit do not coincide with the target star, indicating that the transit is actually on a background object). The image below shows the reason for the problem, the faint star #2 is probably the cause of the contamination:

  

  Posted December 30, 2015 12:33 PM