The Crowded Universe:The Search for Living Planets
The Crowded Universe:The Search for Living Planets
The Formation of Planetary Systems
Heretic’s Approach to Solar System
FormationFForm
Alan P. BossDTM, Carnegie Institution
Planets Beyond the Solar System: The New Astronomical Revolution
UC Santa Barbara, CaliforniaMarch 27, 2010
hot & warm super-Earths
Discovery space with hot and warm super-Earths
gas giants HD 40307: 3 hot super-Earths with 4.2, 6.9, and 9.2 Earth-masses and a longer-period companion (Mayor et al. 2008)
Discovery space with latest discoveries addedDiscovery space with hot and warm super-Earths and their gas giant planet siblings
Mu Ara
55 CncGl 876
Gl 436: solo? HD 69830
HD 181433: inner 7.5 Earth-mass and two outer Jupiters(Bouchy et al. 2009)
HD 47186: inner 22 Earth-mass and outer Saturn (Bouchy et al. 2009)
Discovery space with latest discoveries addedDiscovery space with planets around M dwarf stars highlighted
GJ 876
GJ 436
OGLE-2005-BLG-390
GJ 581
OGLE-2003-BLG-235OGLE-2005-BLG-071
GJ 876
GJ 876
OGLE-2005-BLG-169
OGLE-2006-BLG-109b,c
GJ 317GJ 849
GJ 176
cold super-Earths
MOA-2007-BLG-192
OGLE-2005-BLG-071
cold Jupiters
CoRoT- Exo-7 b, the smallest radius transiting planet found to date: radius = 1.68 Earth-radii, mass = 4.8 Earth-masses,
and a density = 5.6 g/cc, close to that of Earth (5.5 g/cc)