RE: Mike's TN: Planetary Transits

[Doug Welch <welch@physics.mcmaster.ca>]

Heresy!!!! (Unless, of course, it works better!)
;)
Doug

On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 jbush@pucp.edu.pe wrote:

> 
> 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
> > 
> 
> 

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