So velocity measurements help to group objects together but do not determine the distances for those groups.
Not exact matches
Laughlin says it's frustrating that the most interesting planets — small ones like Earth — are
so challenging to detect: «You have to get tons and tons and tons of
velocity measurements over many years, and then you really, really have to take extreme care — as this Tuomi et al. paper does — to get rid of all the systematic noise.»
The host star is bright (V = 11.2, J = 9.1) and
so may be a good target for precise radial
velocity measurements.
As TLDR pointed out, maybe Gaia could provide us with some data what with radial
velocity measurements being a pain and transit
measurements coming up empty (
so far).
When different studies use the same angular
velocity for
measurement, these can be compared to one another,
so long as differences between the populations tested are acknowledged, and
so long as the dynamometer used is the same in both cases, as differences have been observed between brands (Francis & Hoobler, 1987; Thompson et al. 1989; Gross et al. 1991).