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  • A STELLAR-MASS-DEPENDENT DR...
    Mulders, Gijs D; Pascucci, Ilaria; Apai, Daniel

    Astrophysical journal/˜The œAstrophysical journal, 01/2015, Volume: 798, Issue: 2
    Journal Article

    The Kepler spacecraft has discovered a large number of planets with up to one-year periods and down to terrestrial sizes. While themajority of the target stars are main-sequence dwarfs of spectral type F, G, and K, Kepler covers stars with effective temperatures as low as 2500 K, which corresponds to Mstars. In this paper, we calculate the occurrence of planets around stars of different spectral types as a function of planet radius and distance from the star and show that they are significantly different from each other. By comparing different mechanisms of planet formation, trapping, and destruction, we find that this scaling best matches the location of the pre-main-sequence co-rotation radius, indicating efficient trapping of migrating planets or planetary building blocks close to the star. The results demonstrate the stellar-mass dependence of the planet population, both in terms of occurrence rate and of orbital distribution. The prominent stellar-mass dependence of the inner boundary of the planet population shows that the formation or migration of planets is sensitive to the stellar parameters.