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Planets and the stars they orbit are born from the same cloud of gas and dust, and the primordial compositions of rocky exoplanets have been assumed to have iron and refractory abundance ratios consistent with their host star. To test this…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-16 Casey L. Brinkman , Alex S. Polanski , Daniel Huber , Lauren M. Weiss , Diana Valencia , Mykhaylo Plotnykov

The two prevailing planet formation scenarios, core-accretion and disk instability, predict distinct planetary mass-metallicity relations. Yet, the detection of this trend remains challenging due to inadequate data on planet atmosphere…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-19 Qinghui Sun , Sharon Xuesong Wang , Luis Welbanks , Johanna Teske , Johannes Buchner

We investigate the distribution of mass M and orbital period P of extra-solar planets, taking account of selection effects due to the limited velocity precision and duration of existing surveys. We fit the data on 63 planets to a power-law…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Serge Tabachnik , Scott Tremaine

We explore atmospheric escape from close-in exoplanets with the highest mass loss rates. First, we locate the transition from stellar X-ray and UV-driven escape to rapid Roche lobe overflow, which occurs once the 10-100 nbar pressure level…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 Tommi Koskinen , Panayotis Lavvas , Chenliang Huang , Galen Bergsten , Rachel Fernandes , Mitchell Young

The interest in the structure of ice-rich planetary bodies, in particular the differentiation between ice and rock, has grown due to the discovery of Kuiper belt objects and exoplanets. We thus carry out a parameter study for a range of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Stephan Loveless , Dina Prialnik , Morris Podolak

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

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

Physical conditions deep within planets and exoplanets have yet to be measured directly, but indirect methods can calculate them. The polytropic models are one possible solution to this problem. In the present paper, we assume that the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-15 Essam Elkholy , Mohamed I. Nouh

Static structure models, which map mass-radius constraints to bulk planet composition, are frequently used to categorise exoplanets due to their computational efficiency and the high-level insight they offer into planetary properties.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-20 Harrison Nicholls , Oliver Shorttle , Tim Lichtenberg , Flavia Pascal

Exoplanet discoveries of recent years have provided a great deal of new data for studying the bulk compositions of giant planets. Here we identify 47 transiting giant planets ($20 M_\oplus < M < 20 M_{\mathrm{J}}$) whose stellar insolation…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-08 Daniel P. Thorngren , Jonathan J. Fortney , Ruth A. Murray-Clay , Eric D. Lopez

In order to characterize giant exoplanets and better understand their origin, knowledge of how the planet's composition depends on its mass and stellar environment is required. In this work, we simulate the thermal evolution of gaseous…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-18 Simon Müller , Maya Ben-Yami , Ravit Helled

Large-scale characterization of exoplanetary atmospheres is on the horizon, thereby making it possible in the future to extract their statistical properties. In this context, by using a well validated model in the solar system, we carry out…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-26 Laura Chin , Chuanfei Dong , Manasvi Lingam

In this research, 14 light curves of 10 hot Jupiter exoplanets available on Exoplanet Transit Database (ETD) were analyzed. We extracted the transit parameters using EXOFAST software. Finally, we compared the planet's radius parameter…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-14 F. Davoudi , A. Poro , E. Paki , P. Mirshafie , F. Ahangarani , A. Farahani , M. Roshana , F. Abolhasani , Sh. Zamanpour , E. Lashgari , S. Modarres , A. Mohandes

We explore volcanic outgassing on purely rocky, stagnant-lid exoplanets of different interior structures, compositions, thermal states, and age. We focus on planets in the mass range of 1-8 ME (Earth masses). We derive scaling laws to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-13 Caroline Dorn , Lena Noack , Antoine Rozel

Determination of an exoplanet's mass is a key to understanding its basic properties, including its potential for supporting life. To date, mass constraints for exoplanets are predominantly based on radial velocity (RV) measurements, which…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-27 Julien de Wit , Sara Seager

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

Context: The energy-limited (EL) atmospheric escape approach is used to estimate mass-loss rates for a broad range of planets that host hydrogen-dominated atmospheres as well as for performing atmospheric evolution calculations. Aims: We…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-10 Andreas F. Krenn , Luca Fossati , Daria Kubyshkina , Helmut Lammer

Studies of planetary atmospheric composition, variability, and evolution require appropriate theoretical and numerical tools to estimate key atmospheric parameters, among which the mass-loss rate is often the most important. In evolutionary…

Relatively long-period nonsynchronized planets---such as warm Jupiters---potentially retain the primordial rotation, eccentricity, and obliquity that might encapsulate information on planetary climate and formation processes. To date, there…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-20 Kazumasa Ohno , Xi Zhang

Employing the data from orbital periods and masses of extra-solar planets in 166 multiple planetary systems, the period-ratio and mass-ratio of adjacent planet pairs are studied. The correlation between the period-ratio and mass-ratio is…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Ing-Guey Jiang , Li-Chin Yeh , Wen-Liang Hung