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Can anybody explain why the chart stops at 3 AU? All our bigger planets are off the chart.


Seems likely that the planets with larger orbits have not yet been detected since they will take longer to reach a point in orbit when they are transiting their respective stars. It seems premature for the paper to reach it's conclusion when Kepler has been in operation for less than ten years, but hey... publish or perish.




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