Planet Size Distribution from the Kepler Mission and its Implications for Planet Formation
Li Zeng, Stein B. Jacobsen, Eugenia Hyung, Andrew Vanderburg, Mercedes Lopez-Morales, Dimitar D. Sasselov, Juan Perez-Mercader, Michail I. Petaev, David W. Latham, Raphaëlle D. Haywood, Thomas K. R. Mattson
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Abstract
The size distribution of exoplanets is a bimodal division into two groups: Rocky planet (<2 Earth radii) and water-rich planet (>2 Earth radii) with or without gaseous envelope.
arXiv comments
2 pages, 4 figures, abstract publicly available since January 2017 (see https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2017/pdf/1576.pdf) and presented at the 48th LPSC on March 23, 2017. Also See: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017LPI....48.1576Z
You should be able to look up the exact numbers here[0]. Figure 1 in this paper[1] shows a radii histogram of kepler sub gas giant exoplanet candidates. [0] https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/ [1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.05909.pdf
You should be able to look up the exact numbers here[0]. Figure 1 in this paper[1] shows a radii histogram of kepler sub gas giant exoplanet candidates. [0] https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/ [1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.05909.pdf
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