On the Fundamental Mass-Period Functions of Extrasolar Planets

Autor: Jiang, Ing-Guey, Yeh, Li-Chin, Chang, Yen-Chang, Hung, Wen-Liang
Rok vydání: 2009
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Zdroj: Astrophys.J.Suppl.186:48-62,2010
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1088/0067-0049/186/1/48
Popis: Employing a catalog of 175 extrasolar planets (exoplanets) detected by the Doppler-shift method, we constructed the independent and coupled mass-period functions. It is the first time in this field that the selection effect is considered in the coupled mass-period functions. Our results are consistent with those in Tabachnik and Tremaine (2002) with the major differences that we obtain a flatter mass function but a steeper period function. Moreover, our coupled mass-period functions show that about 2.5 percent of stars would have a planet with mass between Earth Mass and Neptune Mass, and about 3 percent of stars would have a planet with mass between Neptune Mass and Jupiter Mass.
Comment: Accepted by ApJ Supplement Series in Nov. 2009, Acknowledgment added in Dec. 2009, a Reference-Based Catalog of Exoplanets can be obtained electronically from Appendix A of the latex file or from the authors for further studies.
Databáze: arXiv