CharlesLineweaver from the Australian National University's Mount StromloObservatory says Bousso's team are simply imposing a catastrophe for statisticalreasons.
Marcy and a team that includes Paul Butler of the Anglo-Australian Observatory are using the telescope to scan more than 400 stars for the characteristic "wobble" caused by the gravitational effect of planets on stars.
Together with an amateur astronomer friend from California, Mandel has traveled to Australia and set up a high-powered telescope, mount and CCD camera in Lee's own backyard observatory, which they've dubbed the Australian-American Imaging Station.