Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jan 2011
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011aas...21714019w&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #217, #140.19; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 43, 2011
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
Based on the mass and period distributions of the super-Earths discovered by the Geneva Extrasolar Planet Search, there are expected to be planets less massive than Neptune orbiting a large fraction of main sequence stars in periods of 50 days or less. Expanding on this prediction, we employ a Monte Carlo method to create populations of super-Earths with varying compositions, mass distributions, and period distributions. We then compare the results of these simulations with the planet candidates announced by Kepler on June 15, 2010, calculating a statistical best fit to identify the radial velocity super-Earth population which is most likely to reproduce Kepler's population of planet candidates.
Laughlin Greg
Wolfgang Angie
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