Planet Size Distribution from the Kepler Mission and its Implications for Planet Formation

2018/06/15 by Zeng, Li, Jacobsen, Stein B., Hyung, Eugenia +8
#Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP) #FOS: Physical sciences

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1806.05909

Abstract

The size distribution of exoplanets is a bimodal division into two groups: Rocky planet (<2 Earth radii) and water-rich planet (>2 Earth radii) with or without gaseous envelope.

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