Post AJX6PgCWNzuWm4IZW4 by dpthorngren@mastodon.online
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 (DIR) Post #AJX6PebGL2VroDrIno by dpthorngren@mastodon.online
       2022-05-16T23:51:43Z
       
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       To be completely honest, my job is basically just understanding this plot in as much detail as I possibly can, lolFor the curious, these are the known giant exoplanets with well-determined masses and radii, plotted and colored by incident stellar flux (the amount of light coming in from the parent star).  I threw in the solar system giants for good measure.
       
 (DIR) Post #AJX6Pexwygf2waTQAK by publius@mastodon.sdf.org
       2022-05-17T05:09:59Z
       
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       @dpthorngren Presumably, someday an evolved version of this plot will be as familiar and well-explained as the Hertzsprung-Russel Diagram.
       
 (DIR) Post #AJX6PgCWNzuWm4IZW4 by dpthorngren@mastodon.online
       2022-05-16T23:55:40Z
       
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       - The light ones at the top are hot Jupiters- The most massive hot Jupiters don't puff up as much for a given flux.- The cooler planets (which we know of fewer) are clustered around a Jupiter radius.- Lower-mass planets than Saturn are generally smaller, regardless of their flux, which is suspicious.- For a given sub-Saturn-mass planet, there's a radius they never seem to exceed.  Also sus.Anyway, if any part of this plot piques your interest, I can explain it further