4 papers
A Stellar-Type Dependence in the Rocky and Volatile Composition of Small Exoplanets
Ji Wang, Caroline Dorn, Komal Bali
We investigate the rocky and volatile composition of small exoplanets by modeling the population-level distribution of densities using a mixture framework that links interior struc…
Super-Earth masses and stellar abundances from NIRPS reveal tentative evidence for water-rich formation around M dwarfs
Drew Weisserman, Nicole Gromek, Ryan Cloutier +98
Tracing the compositional link between terrestrial super-Earths and their host stars provides clues to their dominant formation pathway. By constraining the stellar abundances of r…
A primordial radius valley as a consequence of planet formation
Jesper Nielsen, Anders Johansen, Komal Bali +1
The radius distribution of close-in planets has been observed to have a bimodal distribution with a dearth of planets around ~1.5-2.0 commonly referred to as the ''radiu…
Water-rich sub-Neptunes and rocky super Earths around different Stars: Radii shaped by Volatile Partitioning, Formation, and Evolution
Remo Burn, Komal Bali, Caroline Dorn +2
The nature of sub-Neptunes remains unknown due to degeneracies in interior structure solutions. However, a statistical set of small planets with measured masses and radii can be us…