Sentences with phrase «false signals like»

From just that brightness data, TESS scientists will be able to differentiate between real planets and false signals like those caused by debris or instrument flukes.

Not exact matches

On July 4, 2012, they officially announced the discovery of a particle that looks very much like the Higgs, saying that the odds of a false signal were less than one in 3 million.

A false alarm, where LIGO mistakes a signal from a non - astrophysical source like an earthquake or lightning strike as a gravitational wave, is only likely to occur once every 70,000 years,» Bose said.

Nearly five thousand periodic transit - like signals are vetted against astrophysical and instrumental false positives yielding 1,091 viable new planet candidates, bringing the total count up to over 2,300.

We calculate the false positive probabilities that the transit - like signals are actually caused by non-planetary astrophysical phenomena and reject five new transit - like events and three previously reported events as false positives.

And in fact if you peruse the charts in Yardeni's compendium of bull and bear markets, you'll see that there are often lots of feints and false signals — like the 12 % drop last August — that might seem to be heralding the beginning of a bear but aren't.

Consumer EEG tends to pick up a lot of false positives, like signals from muscles, or even the electricity that powers the device itself.

These people face hungry wolves like big bank traders, asset managers and funds, who make the market in the confusion among false signals and press media.