The Gaia–Kepler–TESS-host Stellar Properties Catalog: Uniform Physical Parameters for 10022 Host Stars and 10189 Planets

Abstract We present the first homogeneous catalog of Kepler, K2, and TESS host stars and the corresponding catalog of exoplanet properties, which contain 10022 stars and 10189 planets, respectively. We used isochrone fitting and Gaia DR3 photometry, parallaxes, and spectroscopic metallicities to compute precise, homogeneous T eff , <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" overflow="scroll"> <mml:mi>log</mml:mi> <mml:mi>g</mml:mi> </mml:math> , masses, radii, mean stellar densities, luminosities, ages, distances, and V -band extinctions for 3387 , 618 , 6017 Kepler, K2, and TESS host stars, respectively. We compared our stellar properties to studies using fundamental and precise constraints, such as interferometry and asteroseismology, and find residual scatters of 2.8%, 5.6%, 5.0%, and 31%, with offsets of 0.2%, 1.0%, 1.2%, and 0.7% between our T eff , radii, masses, and ages and those in the literature, respectively. In addition, we compute planet radii, semimajor axes, and incident fluxes for as many as 4285, 678, and 5226 Kepler, K2, and TESS planets, respectively, and find that the exoplanet radius gap is less prominent in the K2, TESS, and combined samples than in the Kepler sample alone. We suspect this difference is due to heterogeneous planet-to-star radius ratios, shorter time baselines of K2 and TESS, smaller sample sizes, and the different gap locations hinted at by the K2 (∼1.5 R ⊕ ) and TESS (∼1.8 R ⊕ ) planet radius distributions. Finally, we identify a clear radius inflation trend in thousands of hot Jupiters and find 151 hot sub-Neptunian desert planets, in addition to a population of 233 young (≲1 Gyr) host stars as potential opportunities for testing theories of planet formation and evolution.

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The Astronomical Journal
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2025-12-09
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The Gaia–Kepler–TESS-host Stellar Properties Catalog: Uniform Physical Parameters for 10022 Host Stars and 10189 Planets

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The Gaia–Kepler–TESS-host Stellar Properties Catalog: Uniform Physical Parameters for 10022 Host Stars and 10189 Planets

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Abstract We present the first homogeneous catalog of Kepler, K2, and TESS host stars and the corresponding catalog of exoplanet properties, which contain 10022 stars and 10189 planets, respectively. We used isochrone fitting and Gaia DR3 photometry, parallaxes, and spectroscopic metallicities to compute precise, homogeneous T eff , <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" overflow="scroll"> <mml:mi>log</mml:mi> <mml:mi>g</mml:mi> </mml:math> , masses, radii, mean stellar densities, luminosities, ages, distances, and V -band extinctions for 3387 , 618 , 6017 Kepler, K2, and TESS host stars, respectively. We compared our stellar properties to studies using fundamental and precise constraints, such as interferometry and asteroseismology, and find residual scatters of 2.8%, 5.6%, 5.0%, and 31%, with offsets of 0.2%, 1.0%, 1.2%, and 0.7% between our T eff , radii, masses, and ages and those in the literature, respectively. In addition, we compute planet radii, semimajor axes, and incident fluxes for as many as 4285, 678, and 5226 Kepler, K2, and TESS planets, respectively, and find that the exoplanet radius gap is less prominent in the K2, TESS, and combined samples than in the Kepler sample alone. We suspect this difference is due to heterogeneous planet-to-star radius ratios, shorter time baselines of K2 and TESS, smaller sample sizes, and the different gap locations hinted at by the K2 (∼1.5 R ⊕ ) and TESS (∼1.8 R ⊕ ) planet radius distributions. Finally, we identify a clear radius inflation trend in thousands of hot Jupiters and find 151 hot sub-Neptunian desert planets, in addition to a population of 233 young (≲1 Gyr) host stars as potential opportunities for testing theories of planet formation and evolution.

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