A Computational Tool to Interpret the Bulk Composition of Solid Exoplanets based on Mass and Radius Measurements
Astrophysics
2013-01-08 v1
Abstract
The prospects for finding transiting exoplanets in the range of a few to 20 Earth masses is growing rapidly with both ground-based and spaced-based efforts. We describe a publicly available computer code to compute and quantify the compositional ambiguities for differentiated solid exoplanets with a measured mass and radius, including the mass and radius uncertainties.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0808.1916,
title = {A Computational Tool to Interpret the Bulk Composition of Solid Exoplanets based on Mass and Radius Measurements},
author = {Li Zeng and Sara Seager},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0808.1916},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
PASP, in press. 20 pages including 5 figures. Try the MATLAB code and send us comments