{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/the-chemical-link-between-stars-and-their","title":"A compositional link between rocky exoplanets and their host stars","arxiv_id":"2102.12444","date":"2021-02-24","proceeding":null,"authors":["Vardan Adibekyan","Caroline Dorn","Sérgio G. Sousa","Nuno C. Santos","Bertram Bitsch","Garik Israelian","Christoph Mordasini","Susana C. C. Barros","Elisa Delgado Mena","Olivier D. S. Demangeon","João P. Faria","Pedro Figueira","Artur A. Hakobyan","Mahmoudreza Oshagh","Barbara M. T. B. Soares","Masanobu Kunitomo","Yoichi Takeda","Emiliano Jofré","Romina Petrucci","Eder Martioli"],"abstract":"Stars and planets both form by accreting material from a surrounding disk. Because they grow from the same material, theory predicts that there should be a relationship between their compositions. In this study, we search for a compositional link between rocky exoplanets and their host stars. We estimate the iron-mass fraction of rocky exoplanets from their masses and radii and compare it with the compositions of their host stars, which we assume reflect the compositions of the protoplanetary disks. We find a correlation (but not a 1:1 relationship) between these two quantities, with a slope of >4, which we interpret as being attributable to planet formation processes. Super-Earths and super-Mercuries appear to be distinct populations with differing compositions, implying differences in their formation processes.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.12444v2","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.12444v2.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"links_only","authors_date_abstract":"arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://info.arxiv.org/help/license), from the Kaggle arXiv metadata snapshot of 2026-09-12"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"the-chemical-link-between-stars-and-their","repo_url":"https://github.com/jake-clark/jake-clark.github.io","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":{"status":"ok","spdx":"NOASSERTION"}}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}