Half of Kepler’s giant exoplanet candidates are false positives, study finds
Thursday, December 3, 2015 - 17:17
in Astronomy & Space
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.