RE: Mike's TN: Planetary Transits

[<jbush@pucp.edu.pe>]

mike

what you are saying is that everything has to work according to someone's
statistics

tish tish

maybe adjust the statistics ?????

jamie


On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Gutzwiller, Michael wrote:

> Arne,
> 
> Do you know how much time was devoted to the 5000 stars?  Based on the
> numbers I have used there should have been about 10 stars out of the 5000
> that would have transiting hot jupiters.  Do you have an idea of what kind
> of efficiency they were expecting?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mike
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: aah@nofs.navy.mil [mailto:aah@nofs.navy.mil]
> Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 3:35 PM
> To: tass@listserv.wwa.com
> Subject: Mike's TN: Planetary Transits
> 
> 
> This sounds like an interesting project and should be
> doable with a well-calibrated Mark IV.
>   I should note, however, that I talked with Charbonneau
> and Brown (STARE) at the AAS meeting, and they say that they have
> looked at some 5000 stars over a 4-year period.  While
> some data reduction is underway, casual inspection has
> not shown any other transiting planets.  So be prepared
> for a negative result rather than the 16planet/year number
> given by Mike.
> Arne
>