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The Kepler Giant Planet Search. I. A Decade of Kepler Planet-host Radial Velocities from W. M. Keck Observatory
Lauren Weiss  1@  , Howard Isaacson, Andrew Howard  2@  , Benjamin Fulton  3  , Erik Petigura  4  , Daniel Fabrycky  5@  , Daniel Jontof-Hutter, Jason Steffen  6  , Hilke Schlichting, Jason Wright  7@  , Corey Beard, Casey Brinkman, Ashley Chontos, Steven Giacalone  8@  , Michelle Hill, Molly Kosiarek, Mason Macdougall, Teo Mocnik, Alex Polanski, Emma Turtelboom, Dakotah Tyler, Judah Van Zandt@
1 : University of Notre Dame [Indiana]
2 : California Institute of Technology
3 : Infrared Processing and Analysis Center
4 : Department of Physics and Astronomy [UCLA, Los Angeles]
5 : University of Chicago  (UChicago)  -  Website
Chicago, IL -  United States
6 : University of Nevada [Las Vegas]
7 : Penn State University  (PSU)  -  Website
525 Davey Lab Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds Penn State University University Park, PA 16802 -  United States
8 : Caltech

To investigate the relationship between close-in, small and distant, giant planets, we conducted the Kepler Giant Planet Survey (KGPS). Using the W. M. Keck Observatory High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer, we spent over a decade collecting 2844 radial velocities (RVs) of 63 Sunlike stars that host 157 transiting planets. We had no prior knowledge of which systems would contain giant planets beyond 1 au, making this survey unbiased with respect to previously detected Jovians. We announce RV-detected companions to 20 stars from our sample. These include 13 Jovians, 8 nontransiting sub-Saturns, and 3 stellar-mass companions. We also present updated masses and densities of 84 transiting planets. The KGPS project leverages one of the longest-running and most data-rich collections of RVs of the NASA Kepler systems yet, and it will provide a basis for addressing whether giant planets help or hinder the growth of sub-Neptune-sized and terrestrial planets.


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