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Old 07-12-2015, 03:46 PM
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so saying 'false positive' is a little misleading, its simply a lower proportion of detections flagged for further investigation are actually planets. the detected change in light is still real it is just that eclipsing stars or brown dwarfs are being detected rather than planets...
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