A Computational Tool to Interpret the Bulk Composition of Solid Exoplanets based on Mass and Radius Measurements
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- 1 September 2008
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
- Vol. 120 (871) , 983-991
- https://doi.org/10.1086/591807
Abstract
The prospects for finding transiting exoplanets in the range of a few to 20 Earth masses is growing rapidly with both ground-based and spaced-based efforts. We describe a publicly available computer code to compute and quantify the compositional ambiguities for differentiated solid exoplanets with a measured mass and radius, including the mass and radius uncertainties.Comment: PASP, in press. 20 pages including 5 figures. Try the MATLAB code and send us commentKeywords
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