An intriguing correlation between the masses and periods of the transiting planets
Astrophysics
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
We point out an intriguing relation between the masses of the transiting planets and their orbital periods. For the six currently known transiting planets, the data are consistent with a decreasing linear relation. The other known short-period planets, discovered through radial-velocity techniques, seem to agree with this relation. We briefly speculate about a tentative physical model to explain such a dependence.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0411701,
title = {An intriguing correlation between the masses and periods of the transiting planets},
author = {Tsevi Mazeh and Shay Zucker and Frederic Pont},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0411701},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society