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Caption: Figure 1.
Masses and semimajor axes of known planets and simulated Gaia planets. In both cases, we have restricted the sample to planets with Porb and mp constrained to within 20% (i.e., P84th/P16th < 1.2 and m84th/m16th < 1.2). Blue and green points are real planets discovered with the Doppler and transit methods, respectively. Red and black points are from our mock Gaia planet catalogs for Data Release 4 (DR4) and Data Release 5 (DR5; see Section 4). For comparison, the values of Jupiter and Saturn are highlighted with gray points labeled “J” and “S,” respectively. The Gaia planets are primarily super-Jupiters on several-astronomical-unit orbits. About 100 such planets are currently known; Gaia promises to expand this sample to thousands in DR4 and tens of thousands in DR5.
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