Monday, July 6, 2015

Day 21 Banneker Institute

I finish calculating the parameters with their uncertainty for all three planets. After using Multinest in Dr. Kipping's computer which runs a Markov Chain Monte Carlo(MCMC) program. Below are a few of the parameters that I obtained through this process. The numbers on the left are the parameter values, the ones in the middle are the lower bound uncertainty and the the last numbers are the upper bound uncertainty.

Radius ratio: planet over star

[0.035206658283169809, -0.0010722697357797295, 0.0018395676087651774]

Period of planet b

[10.05403551325956, -0.00024616330074600512, 0.00025023083783537459]

Mid-transit time of planet b

[2456813.4188600937, -0.0010220510885119438, 0.0010063056834042072]

"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."

-Albert Einstein

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