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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 8.

Radii and orbital periods of planets produced by the baseline model. A dark color indicates the the planet has been photo-evaporated, so that R = Rcore. The top plot includes only the adiabatic atmosphere, which contains most of the atmosphere mass. In the bottom plot we added a term that allows the atmosphere of the planet to become inflated up to a maximum size of Rmax = 0.20 RB, where RB is the Bondi radius.

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