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The number of extrasolar planets discovered is increasing, so that more than five thousand exoplanets have been confirmed to date. Now we have an opportunity to test the validity of the laws governing planetary systems and take steps to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-29 Mahdiyar Mousavi-Sadr

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

Exoplanet detection in the past decade by efforts including NASA's Kepler and TESS missions has discovered many worlds that differ substantially from planets in our own Solar system, including more than 400 exoplanets orbiting binary or…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 Zhihui Kong , Jonathan H. Jiang , Zong-Hong Zhu , Kristen A. Fahy , Remo Burn

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

The masses and radii of exoplanets are fundamental quantities needed for their characterisation. Studying the different populations of exoplanets is important for understanding the demographics of the different planetary types, which can…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-05 J. F. Otegi , F. Bouchy , R. Helled

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

With manual searching processes, the rate at which scientists and astronomers discover exoplanets is slow because of inefficiencies that require an extensive time of laborious inspections. In fact, as of now there have been about only 5,000…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Ethan Lo , Dan C. Lo

The discovery of habitable exoplanets has long been a heated topic in astronomy. Traditional methods for exoplanet identification include the wobble method, direct imaging, gravitational microlensing, etc., which not only require a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-05 Yucheng Jin , Lanyi Yang , Chia-En Chiang

Stars and their associated planets originate from the same cloud of gas and dust, making a star's elemental composition a valuable indicator for indirectly studying planetary compositions. While the connection between a star's iron (Fe)…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-26 Amílcar R. Torres-Quijano , Natalie R. Hinkel , Caleb H. Wheeler , Patrick A. Young , Luan Ghezzi , Augusto P. Baldo

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

We study the masses and radii of 65 exoplanets smaller than 4 Earth radii with orbital periods shorter than 100 days. We calculate the weighted mean densities of planets in bins of 0.5 Earth radii and identify a density maximum of 7.6 g/cc…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-18 Lauren M. Weiss , Geoffrey W. Marcy

The radius of an exoplanet may be affected by various factors, including irradiation, planet mass and heavy element content. A significant number of transiting exoplanets have now been discovered for which the mass, radius, semi-major axis,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 B. Enoch , A. Collier Cameron , K. Horne

We introduce a new machine learning based technique to detect exoplanets using the transit method. Machine learning and deep learning techniques have proven to be broadly applicable in various scientific research areas. We aim to exploit…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-05 Abhishek Malik , Benjamin P. Moster , Christian Obermeier

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

The high-precision photometry from NASA's Kepler and TESS missions has revolutionized exoplanet detection, enabling the discovery of over 5500 confirmed exoplanets via the transit method and around 10000 additional candidates awaiting…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-02 Sarah Huang , Chen Jiang

Analyzing exoplanets detected by radial velocity or transit observations, we determine the multiplicity of exoplanet host stars in order to study the influence of a stellar companion on the properties of planet candidates. Matching the host…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 T. Roell , A. Seifahrt , R. Neuhäuser , M. Mugrauer

We present the results of a search for additional exoplanets in all multiplanetary systems discovered to date, employing a logarithmic spacing between planets in our Solar System known as the Titius-Bode (TB) relation. We use the Markov…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-20 Mahdiyar Mousavi-Sadr , Ghassem Gozaliasl , Davood M. Jassur

Analysis of the statistical properties of exoplanets, together with those of their host stars, are providing a unique view into the process of planet formation and evolution. In this paper we explore the properties of the mass distribution…

The radius of a planet is a fundamental parameter that probes its composition and habitability. Precise radius measurements are typically derived from the fraction of starlight blocked when a planet transits its host star. The wide-field…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-12 Te Han , Paul Robertson , Timothy D. Brandt , Shubham Kanodia , Caleb Cañas , Avi Shporer , George Ricker , Corey Beard

Thousands of extrasolar planets have been discovered, and it is clear that the galactic planetary census draws on a diversity greatly exceeding that exhibited by the solar system's planets. We review significant landmarks in the chronology…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-22 Gregory Laughlin , Jack J. Lissauer
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