The demographics of young exoplanets can shed light onto their formation and
evolution processes. Exoplanet properties are derived from the properties of
their host stars. As such, it is important to accurately characterize the host
stars since any systematic biases in their derivation can negatively impact the
derivation of planetary properties. Here, we present a uniform catalog of
photometrically-derived stellar effective temperatures, luminosities, radii,
and masses for 4,865 young (<1 Gyr) stars in 31 nearby clusters and moving
groups within 200 pc. We compared our photometrically-derived properties to a
subset of those derived from spectra, and found them to be in good agreement.
We also investigated the effect of stellar properties on the detection
efficiency of transiting short-period young planets with TESS as calculated in
Fernandes et al. 2022, and found an overall increase in the detection
efficiency when the new photometrically derived properties were taken into
account. Most notably, there is a 1.5 times increase in the detection
efficiencies for sub-Neptunes/Neptunes (1.8-6 Re) implying that, for our sample
of young stars, better characterization of host star properties can lead to the
recovery of more small transiting planets. Our homogeneously derived catalog of
updated stellar properties, along with a larger unbiased stellar sample and
more detections of young planets, will be a crucial input to the accurate
estimation of the occurrence rates of young short-period planets.Comment: 16 pages, 5 Figures, 3 Tables. Revised and resubmitted to AJ after a
favorable referee report. Co-First Author