Image Details

Choose export citation format:

Identifying Inflated Super-Earths and Photo-evaporated Cores

  • Authors: Daniel Carrera, Eric B. Ford, Andre Izidoro, Daniel Jontof-Hutter, Sean N. Raymond, and Angie Wolfgang

2018 The Astrophysical Journal 866 104.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 10.

Cumulative distribution of the size ratio of neighboring planets (Rout/Rin) in our simulations (black) and the Kepler sample (see Figure 1). The top plot shows the distribution of Rout/Rin for planet pairs where both planets are above Rtrans. The middle plot shows Rout/Rin when there is one planet on either side of Rtrans, and the bottom plot is for planet pairs where both planets are below the line. For planets with R < Rtrans, we replace R with the core radius to simulate the effect of photo-evaporation. The left column shows the results for the high-mass model, and the right column shows the results for the low-mass model. For the high-mass model, there were no simulations where two planets were photo-evaporated. Hence, the bottom-left plot does not have a model prediction.

Other Images in This Article
Copyright and Terms & Conditions