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An intriguing correlation between the masses and periods of the transiting planets

Mazeh, Tsevi ; Zucker, Shay ; Pont, Frédéric

In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2005, vol. 356, no. 3, p. 955-957

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    Title
    • An intriguing correlation between the masses and periods of the transiting planets
    Author
    • Mazeh, Tsevi. School of Physics and Astronomy, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
    • Zucker, Shay. Observatoire de Genève, 51 Ch. des Maillettes, Sauverny CH-1290, Switzerland
    • Pont, Frédéric. Observatoire de Genève, 51 Ch. des Maillettes, Sauverny CH-1290, Switzerland
    Document Type
    • Postprint
    OAI-PMH Identifier
    • oai:doc.rero.ch:296366
    Summary
    We point out an intriguing relation between the masses of the transiting planets and their orbital periods. For the six currently known transiting planets, the data are consistent with a decreasing linear relation. The other known short-period planets, discovered through radial-velocity techniques, seem to agree with this relation. We briefly speculate about a tentative physical model to explain such a dependence