No Sub-Saturn Mass Planet Desert in the CORALIE/HARPS Radial Velocity Sample
arXiv:2104.05713 · doi:10.3847/1538-3881/ac2a2b
Abstract
We analyze the CORALIE/HARPS sample of exoplanets (Mayor et al. 2011) found by the Doppler radial velocity method for signs of the predicted "desert" at 10- caused by runaway gas accretion at semimajor axes of AU. We find that these data are not consistent with this prediction. This result is similar to the finding by the MOA gravitational microlensing survey that found no desert in the exoplanet distribution for exoplanets in slightly longer period orbits and somewhat lower host masses (Suzuki et al. 2018). Together, these results imply that the runaway accretion scenario of the core accretion theory does not have a large influence on the final mass and semimajor axis distribution of exoplanets.
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