The occurrence of these false positives is the primary reason technical investors need to use more than one indicator.
Not exact matches
Whereas technically the potential threats detected by the system in the past were not
false positives — they did accurately pick up tiny, background amounts
of DNA from organisms naturally present in the environment — in effect, they were
false alarms because they signaled the potential
occurrence of a terrorist attack when none had occurred.
Probability
of occurrence of the classes
of false positives (diluted and undiluted binaries) and
of confirmed planets detected by CoRoT, per unit log
of transit depth, based on the amplitude found in the original CoRoT light - curve.
Most importantly, we also quantify and characterize the distribution and rate
of occurrence of planets down to Earth size with no prior assumptions on their frequency, by subtracting from the population
of actual Kepler candidates our simulated population
of astrophysical
false positives.
We perform numerical simulations to predict the
occurrence of astrophysical
false positives dete... ▽ More The Kepler Mission is uniquely suited to study the frequencies
of extrasolar planets.
We perform numerical simulations to predict the
occurrence of astrophysical
false positives detectable by the Mission, and quantify the fraction
of them that would pass the Kepler candidate vetting procedure.