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Exoplanet science

a scarcity of small planets about 1.5 to 2 Earth radii, separating rocky super-Earths from gas-rich sub-Neptunes.

In exoplanet science, exoplanet radius valley refers to a scarcity of small planets about 1.5 to 2 Earth radii, separating rocky super-Earths from gas-rich sub-Neptunes. This meaning comes from Fulton (2017) in The Astronomical Journal.[1]

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  1. Fulton, B. J., Petigura, E. A., Howard, A. W., Isaacson, H., Marcy, G. W., Cargile, P. A., Hebb, L., Weiss, L. M., Johnson, J. A., Morton, T. D., Sinukoff, E., Crossfield, I. J. M., & Hirsch, L. A. (2017). The California-Kepler Survey. III. A Gap in the Radius Distribution of Small Planets. The Astronomical Journal, 154(3), 109. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/aa80eb

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