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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- 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