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M dwarfs, though the most abundant star in the galaxy, form only a small subset of stellar hosts with exoplanets with measured radii and masses. In this paper we analyze the Mass-Radius (M-R) relationship of planets around M dwarfs using…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-11 Shubham Kanodia , Angie Wolfgang , Gudmundur K. Stefansson , Bo Ning , Suvrath Mahadevan

The Kepler Mission has discovered thousands of planets with radii $<4\ R_\oplus$, paving the way for the first statistical studies of the dynamics, formation, and evolution of these sub-Neptunes and super-Earths. Planetary masses are an…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-06 Angie Wolfgang , Leslie A. Rogers , Eric B. Ford

The relationship between mass and radius (M-R relation) is the key for inferring the planetary compositions and thus valuable for the studies of formation and migration models. However, the M-R relation alone is not enough for planetary…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-03 Qi Ma , Sujit K Ghosh

Fundamental to our understanding of planetary bulk compositions is the relationship between their masses and radii, two properties that are often not simultaneously known for most exoplanets. However, while many previous studies have…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-22 Shubham Kanodia , Matthias Y. He , Eric B. Ford , Sujit K. Ghosh , Angie Wolfgang

Mass and radius are two fundamental properties for characterising exoplanets, but only for a relatively small fraction of exoplanets are they both available. Mass is often derived from radial velocity measurements, while the radius is…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-09 S. Ulmer-Moll , N. C. Santos , P. Figueira , J. Brinchmann , J. P. Faria

The research of exoplanets has entered an era in which we characterize extrasolar planets. This has become possible with measurements of radii and luminosities. Meanwhile, radial velocity surveys discover also very low-mass planets. Uniting…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 C. Mordasini , Y. Alibert , C. Georgy , K. -M. Dittkrist , H. Klahr , T. Henning

Exoplanet characterization is one of the main foci of current exoplanetary science. For super-Earths and sub-Neptunes, we mostly rely on mass and radius measurements, which allow to derive the body's mean density and give a rough estimate…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-16 J. F. Otegi , C. Dorn , R. Helled , F. Bouchy , J. Haldemann , Y. Alibert

We use a carefully selected subsample of 1053 confirmed exoplanets from the NASA Exoplanet Archive to construct empirical power-law exoplanet mass-radius-temperature ($M$-$R$-$T$) relations. Using orthogonal distance regression to account…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-26 Kathryn Edmondson , Jordan Norris , Eamonn Kerins

The growing number of exoplanet discoveries and advances in machine learning techniques have opened new avenues for exploring and understanding the characteristics of worlds beyond our Solar System. In this study, we employ efficient…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-29 Mahdiyar Mousavi-Sadr , Davood M. Jassur , Ghassem Gozaliasl

The exoplanet archive is an incredible resource of information on the properties of discovered extrasolar planets, but statistical analysis has been limited by the number of missing values. One of the most informative bulk properties is…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-14 Florian Lalande , Elizabeth Tasker , Kenji Doya

Determining the mass-radius ($M$-$R$) relation of exoplanets is important for exoplanet characterization. Here we present a re-analysis of the $M$-$R$ relations and their transitions using exoplanetary data from the PlanetS catalog which…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-26 Simon Müller , Jana Baron , Ravit Helled , François Bouchy , Léna Parc

Today, with the large number of detected exoplanets and improved measurements, we can reach the next step of planetary characterization. Classifying different populations of planets is not only important for our understanding of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Dolev Bashi , Ravit Helled , Shay Zucker , Christoph Mordasini

We present a framework for estimating exoplanet occurrence rates by synthesizing constraints from radial velocity and transit surveys simultaneously. We employ approximate Bayesian computation and various mass-radius (M-R) relations to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-20 Michelle Kunimoto , Steve Bryson

Probabilistic relationships between the mass and radius of planets are useful for a variety of purposes, including estimating the yields of planet discovery efforts and the radii of discovered planets given their masses. Previous work on…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-23 Daniel P. Thorngren , Mark S. Marley , Jonathan J. Fortney

We use new interior models of cold planets to investigate the mass-radius relationships of solid exoplanets, considering planets made primarily of iron, silicates, water, and carbon compounds. We find that the mass-radius relationships for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Seager , M. Kuchner , C. Hier-Majumder , B. Militzer

The NASA Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman) will be the first survey able to detect large numbers of both cold and hot exoplanets across Galactic distances: $\sim$1,400 cold exoplanets via microlensing and $\sim$200,000 hot,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 Kathryn Edmondson , Eamonn Kerins

Direct imaging of widely separated exoplanets from space will obtain their reflected light spectra and measure their atmospheric properties, and small and temperate planets will be the focus of the next generation telescopes. In this work,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-26 Mario Damiano , Renyu Hu

We obtain full information on the orbital parameters by combining radial velocity and astrometric measurements by means of Bayesian inference. We sample the parameter probability densities of orbital model parameters with a Markov chain…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Tuomi , S. Kotiranta , M. Kaasalainen

Motivated by the order-of-magnitude difference in the frequency of giant planets orbiting M dwarfs inferred by microlensing and radial velocity (RV) surveys, we present a method for comparing the statistical constraints on exoplanet…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Christian Clanton , Scott Gaudi

Mass and radius of planets transiting their host stars are provided by radial velocity and photometric observations. Structural models of solid exoplanet interiors are then constructed by using equations of state for the radial density…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-15 F. Sohl , F. W. Wagner , H. Rauer
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