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Modeling the Impact of Unresolved Stellar Companions on Detection Sensitivity in Kepler’s Small-planet Occurrence Rates

  • Authors: Galen J. Bergsten, David R. Ciardi, Jessie L. Christiansen, Catherine A. Clark, Ilaria Pascucci, Courtney D. Dressing, Kevin K. Hardegree-Ullman, Michael B. Lund

Galen J. Bergsten et al 2026 The Astronomical Journal 171 .

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Caption: Figure 6.

The ratio of median occurrence rates from our models with and without a treatment for unresolved stellar companions (Scenario 4 and Scenario 1, respectively), using (left) the observed companion rate and properties, and (right) the field companion rate and blend of observed/simulated undetected properties. The largest changes are for far-out super-Earths (blue; 1–2 R), and the smallest changes are for close-in sub-Neptunes (orange; 2–3.5 R). The kink in these ratios around ∼10 days is due to a slight difference in the best-fit occurrence–period distributions (Figure 7), discussed in Section 4.1.

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