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Beating Stellar Systematic Error Floors Using Transit-based Densities

  • Authors: Jason D. Eastman, Hannah Diamond-Lowe, Jamie Tayar

Jason D. Eastman et al 2023 The Astronomical Journal 166 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

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A contour plot of the percent error in R * as a function of the percent errors in ρ * and M *, derived in Equation (9). We see that the dependence on M * is much weaker, and with a typical ﹩{\sigma }_{\,{\rho }_{* }}﹩ of 10%, the resulting constraint on R * can be well below the systematic floor from evolutionary models. In the best cases, we can measure ρ * to ∼1%, resulting in R * uncertainties of ∼1.7%—almost entirely dominated by the systematic floor in M *.

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