A Computational Tool to Interpret the Bulk Composition of Solid Exoplanets based on Mass and Radius Measurements

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14 August 2008

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.0808.1916

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.

Keywords

COMPUTATIONAL TOOL
BULK COMPOSITION
SOLID EXOPLANETS
EXOPLANETS BASED
UNCERTAINTIES
COMPUTER CODE
COMPOSITIONAL
SPACED BASED

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Published version: Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 120 (871), 983.

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