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Preparing for the Early eVolution Explorer: Detecting the Primordial, Transiting Exoplanet Population

  • Authors: George Zhou, James G. Rogers, Jennifer A. Burt, Eve J. Lee, Sydney Vach, Ann Marie Cody, Mark Swain, Neal J. Turner, Andrew W. Mann, Madyson G. Barber, Eric Gaidos, Ward Howard, Laura Venuti, Damon F. Landau, Valerie Scott, Alan Didion, David Makowski, Jamie Nastal, Evgenya L. Shkolnik, Meredith A. MacGregor

George Zhou et al 2026 The Astronomical Journal 172 .

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The input sample of the modeled planet population for our mission simulations. These models show the underlying planet population drawn from evolution models from J. G. Rogers (2025) and E. J. Lee et al. (2022), for the gas-dwarf (red), late-stage gas accretion (orange), and water-world (blue) scenarios. Each randomly drawn planet has evolved to correspond with the ages of its parent stars. No selection biases have been applied to the plotted distributions. Note that the simulated planet populations do not include true gas giants by design, and none of the simulated planets will form eventual hot Jupiters and warm Jupiters. The Kepler planet distribution is plotted for comparison.

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