Architecture and Dynamics of Kepler's Candidate Multiple Transiting Planet Systems

Understand

About one-third of the ~1200 transiting planet candidates detected in the first four months of \ik data are members of multiple candidate systems.

• There are 115 target stars with two candidate transiting planets, 45 with three, 8 with four, and one each with five and six.
• We characterize the dynamical properties of these candidate multi-planet systems.
• The distribution of observed period ratios shows that the vast majority of candidate pairs are neither in nor near low-order mean motion resonances.