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Planet masses and radii from physical principles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2011

Guenther Wuchterl*
Affiliation:
Thüringer Landessternwarte, D-07778 Tautenburg, Germany email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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Masses and radii are the primary observables to characterize exoplanets today. A self-consistent theoretical approach is presented that allows to calculate mass- and radius-distributions of exoplanet populations from basic physical principles and avoids the usual parametrisation of a multitude of processes.

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Contributed Papers
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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2011

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