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Exoplanet Atmospheric Refraction Effects in the Kepler Sample

  • Authors: Déreck-Alexandre Lizotte, Jason Rowe, James Sikora, Michael R. B. Matesic

Déreck-Alexandre Lizotte et al 2025 The Astronomical Journal 170 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 1.

Binned Kepler photometry (blue dots) for KOI populations above/below the period–radius valley (APRV/BPRV; top/bottom), with refraction simulations overlaid for 2, 4, 10, and 30 g mol–1. The black vertical lines indicate ingress and egress, between which all in-transit data has been excised for clarity. Contrary to expectations of the APRV population possessing inflated, low-molecular-weight atmospheres, the 2 g mol–1 model atmosphere poorly represents the binned APRV data and is instead better fit between the 4 and 10 g mol–1 models. The BPRV population behaves as we expected, being relatively flat throughout.

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