Planetary Candidates from K2 Campaign 16

Abstract: Given that Campaign 16 of the K2 mission is one of just two K2 campaigns observed so far in “forward-facing” mode, which enables immediate follow-up observations from the ground, we present a catalog of interesting targets identified through photometry alone. Our catalog includes 30 high-quality planet candidates (showing no signs of being non-planetary in nature), 48 more ambiguous events that may be either planets or false positives, 164 eclipsing binaries, and 231 other regularly periodic …