Friday, December 4, 2015

Kepler's false-positive rate for some planets is higher than thought

NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has found thousands of prospective planets around nearby stars. But the trick is often in confirming whether they’re real or fakes. Now, a new study of gas giant planets in the Kepler dataset finds that more than half of these candidates are false positives, a rate much...



via L.A. Times - Science http://ift.tt/1jEvvNI

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