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Exoplanet Seminar |
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| Speaker: Jessie Christensen (SETI Institute/NASA Ames) Title: Towards Determining eta_Earth: Characterising the Kepler Survey Completeness Abstract: The primary goal of the Kepler mission is to determine the frequency of Earth-size planets in the habitable zones of solar-like stars. The mission has published a catalogue of planet candidates, but there are two key attributes of the catalogue that we need to understand before we can determine the underlying planet population - the rate of false negatives (completeness) and the rate of false positives (reliability). I will discuss our efforts towards determining the completeness of the survey, in particular characterising the behaviour of the automated transit detection software. |
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| Date | May 30, 2012 |
| Start/End Time | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM |
| Location | Building 34, Room E215 |
| Website | http://asd.gsfc.nasa.gov/seminars/exoplanetclub.html |
| Contact | Thayne Currie |
| Email Address | thayne.m.currie@nasa.gov |
| Event Type | Seminars/Colloquia |
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