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> We constrain the planet mass fraction to be larger than 0.0001 of the halo mass, which is equivalent to 2,000 objects ranging from Moon to Jupiter mass per main sequence star.

So the paper is saying there there probably aren't more than 2000 planets per star? That seems like a pretty large upper-bound.




No it's saying the planet mass fraction (the ratio of planet mass to halo mass) is bounded by 2000, not the actual number of planets.




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