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Aug 16, 2015 at 12:04 comment added user3652621 Holy observation bias! Just because seeing giant planets in mercurial orbits around dwarf stars is easy, it does not mean it's the actual typical distribution of planets!
Aug 8, 2015 at 5:06 vote accept Samuel
Aug 6, 2015 at 1:09 comment added Jim2B One thing I would like to see is that Kepler and other planet search programs favors spotting large planets over small planets and short period planets over long period planets. Somewhere there should be a statistical treatment of this applied backwards to give us an idea of what the over all population of planets should look like based upon what we've seen so far. But I haven't seen any and I don't have the statistical background to do this for myself. :(
Aug 5, 2015 at 17:39 comment added HDE 226868 @Jim2B Cool, thanks! Let me know how it goes.
Aug 5, 2015 at 17:35 comment added Jim2B I had developed my own empirical suite of formula to calculate this stuff for me. But I wrote mine before Kepler started returning data. I'm going to use your answer to reprogram my own algorithms. I know this board frowns on "thanks" but "Thanks!" (also +1 for question and answer).
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Jul 28, 2015 at 22:30 comment added HDE 226868 @Samuel Thanks for #1, I didn't know that. #2 is very helpful. I understood #3, by the way, that didn't affect my answer.
Jul 28, 2015 at 22:28 comment added Samuel Very nice work. I am impressed. Some notes: 1) From a desktop you can snip images from PDFs and upload them here. 2) The system doesn't need to have only one star, it just needs to be habitable. 3) The 'RxAxGx' notation was meant to demonstrate rocky planet(s), asteroid belt(s), and gas giant(s) not necessarily one of each. I'll make that more clear.
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