Kepler's false-positive rate for some planets is higher than thought
Friday, December 4, 2015 - 18:03
in Astronomy & Space
NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has found thousands of prospective planets around nearby stars. But the trick is often in confirming whether they’re real or fakes. Now, a new study of gas giant planets in the Kepler dataset finds that more than half of these candidates are false positives, a rate much...