OSSOS VI. Striking Biases in the detection of large semimajor axis Trans-Neptunian Objects — mentioned by acqq

Tue, 01 Aug 2017 06:13:17 GMT

New And Better Data Disfavors A Giant World Beyond Neptune https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2017/06/21/good... As the months passed since it was first proposed by Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown, they compiled additional evidence for it, and things were looking rosy. But a new study by Shankman et al. has turned the evidence on its head, disfavoring the planet's existence and uncovering a bias in the data itself. https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.05348 "The clustered TNOs were detected across different and independent surveys, which has led to claims that the detections are therefore…

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OSSOS VI. Striking Biases in the detection of large semimajor axis Trans-Neptunian Objects — mentioned by acqq