Statistical Inference on the Distribution of Exoplanetary Systems: Correlations in Planetary System Architectures (PhD defense talk)
Matthias He - NPPFeb 17, 2022
Planet Detection
Formation & evolution
System architectures and dynamics
exoplanet demographics
Kepler mission
forward modeling
intra-system correlations
Kepler dichotomy
conditional occurrence
radial velocity follow-up
The discovery of thousands of transiting exoplanet candidates by NASA's Kepler mission revolutionized the study of exoplanets, shifting the field beyond the characterization of individual systems towards mapping the true distribution of all planetary systems and probing population-level trends. Inferring the underlying architectures of planetary systems from the Kepler data ...