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The Number of Transiting Earths
nets places a probabilistic constraint on the number of
xisting
Kepler
dataset. If we adopt the definition of “
013b, 200 P/day < 400 and 1 R/R < 2), and integ
sity function and the geometric transit probability (Equa
the expected number of Earth-like exoplanets transiting
e stars chosen by Petigura
et al.
(2013b) is
N , transiting
= 10.6+5.9
4.5
ainties are only on the expectation value and don’t inc
e. This is an exciting result because it means that, if we
planet search pipelines to small planets orbiting on long
Earth analogs in the existing data. Furthermore, because
ting systems in the catalog, the
True
expected number of
biting Sun-like stars is probably larger than the values in
Let's go find them!