An intriguing correlation between the masses and periods of the transiting planets |
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| Authors: | Tsevi Mazeh,Shay Zucker, Fré dé ric Pont |
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| Affiliation: | School of Physics and Astronomy, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel;Observatoire de Genève, 51 Ch. des Maillettes, Sauverny CH-1290, Switzerland |
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| Abstract: | We point out an intriguing relation between the masses of the transiting planets and their orbital periods. For the six currently known transiting planets, the data are consistent with a decreasing linear relation. The other known short-period planets, discovered through radial-velocity techniques, seem to agree with this relation. We briefly speculate about a tentative physical model to explain such a dependence. |
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| Keywords: | planetary systems |
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