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>there are now way too many candidates to get follow-up observations on all of them. So now exoplanets are "validated" by calculating the probability of a false
by perl4ever 6y ago
>there are now way too many candidates to get follow-up observations on all of them. So now exoplanets are "validated" by calculating the probability of a false positive
I don't math good, but this sounds like a "dial that goes to 11".
If you have a model to identify false positives, why not incorporate it into the original model to eliminate those positives? Or, if you really need observations, how can tweaking the model eliminate that?
- antognini 6y agoIt's not my field so I don't completely understand it, but I think it helps to have one method to propose candidates, and an independent technique to validate candidates. (Though I would welcome correction from someone who works on exoplanets.)