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Stalker Jovian
Number of posts : 540 Age : 33 Location : Paris, France Registration date : 2008-06-16
| Subject: neptune desert 7th March 2010, 8:43 am | |
| Hi
I read something on this forum about the "desert of Neptune", a range of forbiden mass if I remember well, between the ice giants and and the gas giants.
I did not succeed in finding information on the forum. I also searched on ARXIV without results.
Have you some information? Did I dream? Thanks for your future help.
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Edasich dK star
Number of posts : 2291 Location : Tau Ceti g - Mid Latitudes Registration date : 2008-06-02
| Subject: Re: neptune desert 7th March 2010, 10:08 am | |
| If you type "dessert of Neptune", you're dreaming of a very very big, planet-sized ice cream Seriously, probably you'd have read this on some HARPS or some other survey Power Point of PDF presentation, talking about the dearth of Neptune-mass planets. Nevertheless neither I could say exactly where I read this | |
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Borislav Jovian
Number of posts : 564 Registration date : 2008-11-12
| Subject: Re: neptune desert 7th March 2010, 2:44 pm | |
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Stalker Jovian
Number of posts : 540 Age : 33 Location : Paris, France Registration date : 2008-06-16
| Subject: Re: neptune desert 7th March 2010, 4:17 pm | |
| i dont understand what the graphic mean... there is not realy a desert. There is a hole too for ~10Me... | |
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Sirius_Alpha Admin
Number of posts : 4320 Location : Earth Registration date : 2008-04-06
| Subject: Re: neptune desert 7th March 2010, 5:12 pm | |
| See that gap around 30-40 Earth-masses? That's the desert. It isn't a very arid desert, but it is predicted to exist by planet forming models.
Remember that the planets discovered through radial velocity only have minimum masses. Some planets that appear to occupy that desert may be much more massive, but with sin(i) << 1, thus with true masses out of the desert. I.e. The desert may in fact be drier than that graphic shows. _________________ Caps Lock: Cruise control for 'Cool'!
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Stalker Jovian
Number of posts : 540 Age : 33 Location : Paris, France Registration date : 2008-06-16
| Subject: Re: neptune desert 7th March 2010, 5:16 pm | |
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Stalker Jovian
Number of posts : 540 Age : 33 Location : Paris, France Registration date : 2008-06-16
| Subject: Re: neptune desert 7th March 2010, 5:19 pm | |
| what is the exact range of mass? | |
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Sirius_Alpha Admin
Number of posts : 4320 Location : Earth Registration date : 2008-04-06
| Subject: Re: neptune desert 7th March 2010, 5:30 pm | |
| I doubt it's exact. Just, roughly in that area. _________________ Caps Lock: Cruise control for 'Cool'!
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Borislav Jovian
Number of posts : 564 Registration date : 2008-11-12
| Subject: Re: neptune desert 9th March 2010, 1:29 pm | |
| - Sirius_Alpha wrote:
- See that gap around 30-40 Earth-masses?
Yes, 40-50 Earth-masses. For example, current data Encyclopedias. Red for red dwarf, yellow to yellow dwarf. | |
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Stalker Jovian
Number of posts : 540 Age : 33 Location : Paris, France Registration date : 2008-06-16
| Subject: Re: neptune desert 9th March 2010, 1:58 pm | |
| 30-50 for red dwarf stars and 40-50 for yellow dwarf? Or 30-50/40-50 for the two but artifact (M>Msin i)? | |
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Borislav Jovian
Number of posts : 564 Registration date : 2008-11-12
| Subject: Re: neptune desert 9th March 2010, 2:15 pm | |
| - Stalker wrote:
- 30-50 for red dwarf stars and 40-50 for yellow dwarf? Or 30-50/40-50 for the two but artifact (M>Msin i)?
I think red dwarfs in general is a special case. They do not know hot jupiters, with only periods, like Gliese 876bc. So just specify the location of the desert is difficult. Necessary to accumulate statistics. Let's wait for the publication planets HARSP, COROT'a and Kepler'a. | |
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Borislav Jovian
Number of posts : 564 Registration date : 2008-11-12
| Subject: Re: neptune desert 11th March 2010, 9:53 am | |
| In the distribution of transiting planets (i.e. known true mass) has seen two of the desert - between the super-earths and neptunes, and between neptunes and saturns. But it was too little data for statistics. | |
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