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A major bottleneck for the exploitation of data from the Kepler mission for stellar astrophysics and exoplanet research has been the lack of precise radii and evolutionary states for most of the observed stars. We present revised radii of ~180,000 Kepler stars derived by combining parallaxes from the Gaia Data Release 2 with the DR25 Kepler Stellar Properties Catalog. The median radius precision is ≈8%, a typical improvement by a factor of 4–5 over previous estimates for typical Kepler stars. We find that ≈67% of all Kepler targets are main-sequence stars, ≈21% are subgiants, and ≈12% are red giants, demonstrating that subgiant contamination is less severe than some previous estimates and that Kepler targets are mostly main-sequence stars. Using the revised stellar radii, we recalculate the radii for > 4000 exoplanets. We confirm the presence of a gap in the radius distribution of small, close-in planets, and its location may be at a slightly larger radius when compared to previous results. Furthermore, we find several confirmed exoplanets occupying a previously described “hot super-Earth desert” at high irradiance, show the relation between a gas-giant planet’s radius and its incident flux, and establish a bona fide sample of 38 planets smaller than two earth radii in circumstellar habitable zones. The results presented here demonstrate the potential for transformative characterization of stellar and exoplanet populations using Gaia data.

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PID https://www.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1488237
PID https://www.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1488236
PID https://www.doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aada83
PID https://www.doi.org/10.17909/t9-bspb-b780
URL https://zenodo.org/record/1488237
URL http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1488236
URL http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1488237
URL https://figshare.com/articles/Precise_Properties_of_Kepler_Stars_and_Planets_in_the_Gaia_Era/7344410
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Author Berger, Travis, 0000-0002-2580-3614
Author Huber, Daniel, 0000-0001-8832-4488
Author Gaidos, Eric, 0000-0002-5258-6846
Author van Saders, Jennifer, 0000-0002-4284-8638
Contributor Wolk, Scott
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Publication Date 2018-11-14
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keyword arxiv.Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
keyword arxiv.Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
keyword stars: fundamental parameters
keyword techniques: photometric
keyword arxiv.Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
keyword techniques: photometric
keyword arxiv.Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
keyword stars: fundamental parameters
keyword arxiv.Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
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