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Caption: Figure 5.
Binned Kepler photometry (blue dots) of the KOI population which both exists above the period–radius valley and below the H2 atmospheric evaporation limit shown in Figure 4. Overlaid is a clear H2 atmosphere (μ = 2 g mol–1) refraction model (solid red line). Despite these exoplanets being the only ones in the APRV population capable of holding H/He atmospheres, any possible refraction effects are severely dampened when compared to the simulated effect for an optically thin H/He atmosphere.
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