Planetary masses and radii Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Schlaufman K.C.
  2. Halpern N.D.
  3. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

Since planet occurrence and primordial atmospheric retention probability increase with period, the occurrence-weighted median planets discovered by transit surveys may bear little resemblance to the low-occurrence, short-period planets sculpted by atmospheric escape ordinarily used to calibrate mass-radius relations and planet formation models. An occurrence-weighted mass-radius relation for the low-mass planets discovered so far by transit surveys orbiting solar-type stars requires both occurrence-weighted median Earth-mass and Neptune-mass planets to have a few percent of their masses in hydrogen/helium (H/He) atmospheres. Unlike the Earth that finished forming long after the protosolar nebula was dissipated, these occurrence-weighted median Earth-mass planets must have formed early in their systems' histories. The existence of significant H/He atmospheres around Earth-mass planets confirms an important prediction of the core-accretion model of planet formation. It also implies core masses M_c_ in the range 2 M_{Earth}_<~M_c_<~8M_{Earth}_ that can retain their primordial atmospheres. If atmospheric escape is driven by photoevaporation due to extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) flux, then our observation requires a reduction in the fraction of incident EUV flux converted into work usually assumed in photoevaporation models. If atmospheric escape is core driven, then the occurrence-weighted median Earth-mass planets must have large Bond albedos. In contrast to Uranus and Neptune that have at least 10% of their masses in H/He atmospheres, these occurrence-weighted median Neptune-mass planets are H/He poor. The implication is that they experienced collisions or formed in much shorter-lived and/or hotter parts of their parent protoplanetary disks than Uranus and Neptune's formation location in the protosolar nebula.

Keywords
  1. exoplanets
  2. stellar-masses
  3. stellar-radii
  4. astronomical-reference-materials
  5. visible-astronomy
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2021ApJ...921...24S
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https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJ/921/24
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ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/921/24
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.19210024

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History

2023-03-22T07:52:21Z
Resource record created
2023-03-22T07:52:21Z
Created
2023-07-03T14:34:54Z
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