Fig. 1: Radius histograms of observed and synthetic planets. | Nature Astronomy

Fig. 1: Radius histograms of observed and synthetic planets.

From: A radius valley between migrated steam worlds and evaporated rocky cores

Fig. 1: Radius histograms of observed and synthetic planets.

The light blue line shows the observed distribution without correction for the observational bias2 and the grey line the synthetic one using the updated, nominal evolution model with the bias of the Kepler survey applied. Opaque lines show 500 random realizations of the synthetic planets with 5% error in radii. We restrict the sample to planets with certain orbital periods (P), as indicated in the top-left corner of each panel. Histogram bin counts are normalized by the total number of planets in the different samples.

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