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Updated Mass, Eccentricity, and Tidal Heating Constraints for the Earth-sized Planet LP 791-18 d

  • Authors: Michael Greklek-McKeon, Heather A. Knutson, W. Garrett Levine, Renyu Hu, Morgan Saidel, Jonathan Gomez Barrientos, Konstantin Batygin, Björn Benneke

Michael Greklek-McKeon et al 2025 The Astronomical Journal 170 .

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Caption: Figure 4.

Posterior distributions for the masses and eccentricities of LP 791-18 d and c from a fit to the updated set of TTV observations in the case of a tidally damped free eccentricity prior (red), and a uniform eccentricity prior (blue). If we assume that the eccentricities are damped, then the observations are consistent with e = 0 and the planetary masses are slightly lower. If the eccentricities are not damped, the planetary masses are slightly higher.

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