The Statistics of Extrasolar Planets: Results from the Keck Survey

2002/09/11 by A. Cumming, Andrew Cumming, Cumming, Andrew +6
Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #Scientific Research and Discoveries #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0209199

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

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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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