The false positive rate of Kepler and the occurrence of planets by François Fressin and others 2026-10-20
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The study models false positives and detection recovery to infer exoplanet occurrence rates. Section VI and Figure 7 discuss average numbers per star; these must not be confused with the fraction of stars hosting at least one planet. It is used as independent methodological evidence, not an unverified attribution of the exam's figure.
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