Fig. 8.

Comparison of the proposed method (cpm) to the Kepler PDC method in terms of CDPP (see Applications, Exoplanet Light Curves). A shows our performance (red) vs. the PDC performance in a scatter plot, as a function of star magnitude (note that larger magnitude means fainter stars, and smaller values of CDPP indicate a higher quality as measured by CDPP). B bins the same dataset and shows box plots within each bin, indicating median, top quartile, and bottom quartile. The red box corresponds to cpm, and the black box refers to PDC. C shows a histogram of CDPP values. Note that the red histogram has more mass toward the left (i.e., smaller values of CDPP), indicating that our method overall outperforms PDC, the Kepler “gold standard.”