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Exoplanet Seminar

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.

 
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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