danielapai / bioverse

A simulation framework to assess the statistical power of future biosignature surveys
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Implement sensitivity for transit surveys #11

Open matiscke opened 2 years ago

matiscke commented 2 years ago

Currently, compute_yield() considers all transiting planets as detected, checking only for the boolean variable transiting in a sample Table.

It would be useful to be able to include a detection sensitivity for surveys, perhaps in the form of detection probability as a function of planet radius and orbital period.

It should be noted that a simple weighting of targets by $a/R_\star$ is already implemented in Bioverse's target priorization.