A Catalog of Smaller Planets

Abstract

A compilation was made of N = 89 planets or moons for which the mass and radius are known, between the limits of 0.01 and 10 times the mass of Earth. Although starting from a larger and higher-quality (because it excludes m sin i figures) sample than that of Weiss and Marcy (Astrophys J Lett 783:L6–L12, 2014), the chart of log density versus radius confirms the WM14 results: Density increases up to about 1.5 Earth radii and decreases for larger radii, probably as the planet retains hydrogen and helium on formation.