Publications (4)
The PLATO 2.0 Mission
H. Rauer, C. Catala, C. Aerts +159
PLATO 2.0 has recently been selected for ESA's M3 launch opportunity (2022/24). Providing accurate key planet parameters (radius, mass, density and age) in statistical numbers, it…
Physical State of the Deep Interior of the CoRoT-7b Exoplanet
F. W. Wagner, F. Sohl, T. Rückriemen +1
The present study takes the CoRoT-7b exoplanet as an analogue for massive terrestrial planets to investigate conditions, under which intrinsic magnetic fields could be sustained in…
Matrix-propagator approach to compute fluid Love numbers and applicability to extrasolar planets
S. Padovan, T. Spohn, P. Baumeister +5
Context. The mass and radius of a planet directly provide its bulk density, which can be interpreted in terms of its overall composition. Any measure of the radial mass distributio…
Mass-radius relationships of rocky exoplanets
F. Sohl, F. W. Wagner, H. Rauer
Mass and radius of planets transiting their host stars are provided by radial velocity and photometric observations. Structural models of solid exoplanet interiors are then constru…