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The Statistics of Extrasolar Planets: Results from the Keck Survey

Andrew Cumming, Geoffrey W. Marcy, R. Paul Butler, Steven S. Vogt

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0209199

Abstract

We present an analysis of precision radial velocity measurements for 580 stars from the Keck survey. We first discuss the detection threshold of the survey, and then describe a Bayesian approach to constrain the distribution of extrasolar planet orbital parameters using both detections and upper limits.

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