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Kepler-102: Masses and Compositions for a Super-Earth and Sub-Neptune Orbiting an Active Star

  • Authors: Casey L. Brinkman, James Cadman, Lauren Weiss, Eric Gaidos, Ken Rice, Daniel Huber, Zachary R. Claytor, Aldo S. Bonomo, Lars A. Buchhave, Andrew Collier Cameron, Rosario Cosentino, Xavier Dumusque, Aldo F. Martinez Fiorenzano, Adriano Ghedina, Avet Harutyunyan, Andrew Howard, Howard Isaacson, David W. Latham, Mercedes López-Morales, Luca Malavolta, Giuseppina Micela, Emilio Molinari, Francesco Pepe, David F. Philips, Ennio Poretti, Alessandro Sozzetti, Stéphane Udry

Casey L. Brinkman et al 2023 The Astronomical Journal 165 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 7.

Ternary plot for Kepler-102d (K-102d) showing the range of possible combinations of iron, rock, and ice in increments of 10% for a planet of fixed radius. The color bar shows the resulting mass of such a planet. Masses and volumes of different substances are calculated by solving equations of state (EOS) using assumed internal pressure and temperatures using Burnman 0.9 (Cottaar et al. 2016). Every point corresponds to a planet with physically allowed EOS for that combination of iron, rock, and ice—and all produce values for the mass of the planet within 1σ (large points) and 2σ (small points) of our measured mass value for that planet. The horizontal dotted lines show iron fraction, the dotted lines with negative slope show ice fraction, and the lines with positive slope show silicate fraction. The red circle highlights the composition that produces our best-fit mass of M d = 2.5 M .

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