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The Statistics of Extrasolar Planets: Results from the Keck Survey

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We present an analysis of precision radial velocity measurements for 580 stars from the Keck survey. We first discuss the detection threshold of the survey, and then describe a Bayesian approach to constrain the distribution of extrasolar planet orbital parameters using both detections and upper limits.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0209199,
  title  = {The Statistics of Extrasolar Planets: Results from the Keck Survey},
  author = {Andrew Cumming and Geoffrey W. Marcy and R. Paul Butler and Steven S. Vogt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0209199},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

4 pages, 2 figures, to appear in Scientific Frontiers in Research on Extrasolar Planets (ASP Conference Series)