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Understanding the Mass-Radius Relation for Sub-Neptunes: Radius as a Proxy for Composition
Eric D. Lopez, Jonathan J. Fortney
Transiting planet surveys like Kepler have provided a wealth of information on the distribution of planetary radii, particularly for the new populations of super-Earth and sub-Nept…
Establishment of the new Ecuadorian solar physics phenomena division
Ericson D. Lopez
Crucial physical phenomena occur in the equatorial atmosphere and ionosphere, which are currently understudied and poorly understood. Then, scientific campaigns for monitoring equa…
Constraining the intrinsic energy of GRB events
Ericson D. Lopez
Considering a GRB event as a relativistic ejecta where the relativistic moving makes radiation become anisotropic, we are able to show that the required intrinsic energy associated…
A sub-Mercury-sized exoplanet
Thomas Barclay, Jason F. Rowe, Jack J. Lissauer +55
Since the discovery of the first exoplanet we have known that other planetary systems can look quite unlike our own. However, until recently we have only been able to probe the upp…
The Role of Core Mass in Controlling Evaporation: the Kepler Radius Distribution and the Kepler-36 Density Dichotomy
Eric Lopez, Jonathan Fortney
We use models of coupled thermal evolution and photo-evaporative mass loss to understand the formation and evolution of the Kepler-36 system. We show that the large contrast in mea…
Kepler-62: A five-planet system with planets of 1.4 and 1.6 Earth radii in the Habitable Zone
W. J. Borucki, E. Agol, F. Fressin +62
We present the detection of five planets -- Kepler-62b, c, d, e, and f -- of size 1.31, 0.54, 1.95, 1.61 and 1.41 Earth radii, orbiting a K2V star at periods of 5.7, 12.4, 18.2, 12…
All Six Planets Known to Orbit Kepler-11 Have Low Densities
Jack J. Lissauer, Daniel Jontof-Hutter, Jason F. Rowe +14
The Kepler-11 planetary system contains six transiting planets ranging in size from 1.8 to 4.2 times the radius of Earth. Five of these planets orbit in a tightly-packed configurat…
Kepler-68: Three Planets, One With a Density Between That of Earth and Ice Giants
Ronald L. Gilliland, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Jason F. Rowe +30
NASA's Kepler Mission has revealed two transiting planets orbiting Kepler-68. Follow-up Doppler measurements have established the mass of the innermost planet and revealed a third…