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Aliases of the first eccentric harmonic : Is GJ 581g a genuine planet candidate?

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(October 2010)

Abstract

The radial velocity (RV) method for detecting extrasolar planets has been the most successful to date. The RV signal imprinted by a few Earth-mass planet around a cool star is at the limit of the typical single measurement uncertainty obtained using state-of-the-art spectrographs. This requires relying on statistics in order to unearth signals buried below noise. Artifacts introduced by observing cadences can produce spurious signals or mask genuine planets that should be easily detected otherwise. Here we discuss a particularly confusing statistical degeneracy resulting from the yearly aliasing of the first eccentric harmonic of an already-d…(more)

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