2017/12/01 by Li Zeng, S. B. Jacobsen, Stein B. Jacobsen +2 · 22 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astro and Planetary Science #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies #Computer science #Earth radius #Exoplanet #Kepler #Neptune #Physics #Planet #RADIUS #Star (game theory) #Stars #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies #astro-ph.EP
paper · pdf · doi:10.3847/2515-5172/aa9ed9
published in Research Notes of the AAS 1(1), 32 (IOP Publishing) · 2pages, 1 figure, RNAAS 2017
openalex publication_date 2017/12/01 · arxiv created 2017/12/14 · arxiv updated 2017/12/18 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Exoplanets smaller than Neptune are numerous, but the nature of the planet populations in the 1-4 Earth radii range remains a mystery. The complete Kepler sample of Q1-Q17 exoplanet candidates shows a radius gap at ~ 2 Earth radii, as reported by us in January 2017 in LPSC conference abstract #1576 (Zeng et al. 2017). A careful analysis of Kepler host stars spectroscopy by the CKS survey allowed Fulton et al. (2017) in March 2017 to unambiguously show this radius gap. The cause of this gap is still under discussion (Ginzburg et al. 2017; Lehmer & Catling 2017; Owen & Wu 2017). Here we add to our original analysis the dependence of the radius gap on host star type.