We produce and analyze eclipse time variation (ETV) curves for some 2600 targeted
main-field Kepler binaries. We find good to excellent evidence for a third body in 222
systems via either the light-travel-time (LTTE) or dynamical effect delays.
In this seminar lecture I present
(i) our improved dynamical model for describing
the third-body perturbations on the ETV of a given binary (in an analytic formalism)
and therefore, for a better determination of the system parameters from the ETV curves;
(ii) the semi-authomatic method of determining timing data quickly and uniformly with
the appropriate handling of such enormous size of targets;
(iii) the strict criteria introduced to identify real triples and filter out false positives;
(iv) the statistical results obtained from 222 real triple systems;
and, finally, (v) some interesting individual triples will also be discussed.
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