Thursday 3 December 2015

Half of Kepler’s giant exoplanet candidates are false positives, study finds

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An international team made a 5-year radial velocity campaign of Kepler's giant exoplanet candidates, using the SOPHIE spectrograph (Observatory of Haute-Provence, France), and found that 52.3% were actually eclipsing binaries, while 2.3% were brown dwarfs.
via Science Daily
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