Publication

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★PNAS article on water worlds:

“Growth Model Interpretation of Planet Size Distribution”. Li Zeng, Stein B. Jacobsen, Dimitar D. Sasselov, Michail I. Petaev, Andrew Vanderburg, Mercedes Lopez-Morales, Juan Perez-Mercader, Thomas R. Mattsson, Gongjie Li, Matthew Z. Heising, Aldo S. Bonomo, Mario Damasso, Travis A. Berger, Hao Cao, Amit Levi, Robin Wordsworth. PNAS, 2019, 116 (20) 9723-9728. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.181295116 (https://www.pnas.org/content/116/20/9723)

Some recent exoplanet systems which I have worked on, within the HARPS-N collaboration...

★Kepler-107 system: Aldo S. Bonomo, Li Zeng, Mario Damasso, Zoe Leinhardt, Anders B. Justesen, et al. (https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.01316) (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-018-0684-9)

★K2-36 system: Mario Damasso, Li Zeng, Luca Malavolta, Andrew W. Mayo, Alessandro Sozzetti, et al. (https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.01881)

★GJ 9827 system: Ken Rice, Luca Malavolta, Andrew W. Mayo, Annelies Mortier, Lars A. Buchhave, L. Affer, et al. (https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.07302)

★K2-263 b: Annelies Mortier, Aldo S. Bonomo, Vinesh M. Rajpaul, Lars A. Buchhave, Andrew Vanderburg, et al. (https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.08187)

★K2-3 system: Mario Damasso, Aldo S. Bonomo, Nicola Astudillo-Defru, Xavier Bonfil, Luca Malavolta, et al. (https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.08320)

“Survival Function Analysis of Planet Size and Orbit Distributions”. Zeng, Jacobsen, Sasselov, Vanderburg. (handout) (arXiv) (arXiv)

“Exoplanet Radius Gap Dependence on Host Star Type”. Zeng, Jacobsen, Sasselov. (ADS link)

LPSC: 48th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC), the Woodlands, Texas, March 20-24, 2017. Oral Presentation of LPSC abstract 1576 titled "Planet Size Distribution from the Kepler Mission and Its Implications for Planet Formation" at 2:40pm on Thursday, March 23, 2017, at Waterway Ballroom 5. (ADS link)

“A Simple Analytical Model for Rocky Planet Interior”. Li Zeng, and Stein B. Jacobsen. ApJ, 837, 164, 2017. (ADS link) (PDF, updated) (PDF)

“Variational Principle for Planetary Interiors”. Li Zeng, and Stein B. Jacobsen. ApJ, 829, 18, 2016. (ADS link) (PDF)

“Kepler-21b: A rocky planet around a V = 8.25 magnitude star”. Mercedes Lopez-Morales, Raphaelle Haywood, Jeffrey Coughlin, Li Zeng, Lars Buchhave, et al. AJ, 152, 204, 2016. (ADS link) (PDF)

“Mass-Radius Relation for Rocky Planets based on PREM”. Li Zeng, Dimitar D. Sasselov, and Stein B. Jacobsen. ApJ, 819, 127, 2016. (ADS link) (PDF)

mrtable / mrtable2 / mrtable3

“Characterizing K2 Planet Discoveries: A Super-Earth Transiting the Bright K Dwarf HIP 116454”. Andrew Vanderburg, Benjamin Montet, John Johnson, Lars Buchhave, Li Zeng, et al. ApJ, 800, 59, 2015. (ADS link) (PDF)

“Kepler-93b: A Terrestrial World Measured to within 120 km, and a Test Case for a New Spitzer Observing Mode”. Sarah Ballard, William Chaplin, David Charbonneau, Jean-Michel Desert, Francois Fressin, Li Zeng, et al. ApJ, 790, 12, 2014. (ADS link) (PDF)

“The Effect of Temperature Evolution on the Interior Structure of H2O-rich Planets”. Li Zeng and Dimitar D. Sasselov. ApJ, 784, 96, 2014. (ADS link) (PDF)

“A Detailed Model Grid for Solid Planets from 0.1 through 100 Earth Masses”. Li Zeng and Dimitar D. Sasselov. PASP, 125, 227, 2013. (ADS link) (PDF)

Table 1 / Table 2 / Table 3

Fe-MgSiO3 p0-p1/p0 table / Fe-MgSiO3 p0-CMF table / Fe-MgSiO3 p0-CRF table

MgSiO3-H2O p0-p1/p0 table / MgSiO3-H2O p0-CMF table / MgSiO3-H2O p0-CRF table

Fe-H2O p0-p1/p0 table / Fe-H2O p0-CMF table / Fe-H2O p0-CRF table

“A Computational Tool to Interpret the Bulk Composition of Solid Exoplanets based on Mass and Radius Measurements”. Li Zeng and Sara Seager. PASP, 120, 983, 2008. (ADS link) (PDF)

Matlab code: ExoterDE(M, Munc, R, Runc) / ExoterDB(M, Munc, R, Runc)

Conferences:

Goldschimdt 2018: https://goldschmidt.info/2018/abstracts/abstractView?id=2018003836

Cool Star 20: http://coolstars20.cfa.harvard.edu/contributions.html

Exoplanets Orbiting Hot Stars: https://sites.google.com/view/planetsaroundhotstars2018/

LPSC: 48th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC), the Woodlands, Texas, March 20-24, 2017. Oral Presentation of LPSC abstract 1576 titled "Planet Size Distribution from the Kepler Mission and Its Implications for Planet Formation" at 2:40pm on Thursday, March 23, 2017, at Waterway Ballroom 5. (ADS link)

AGU (10-16 Dec 2016), presenting CIDER Group Project: "On the Origin of High Shear Wave Velocities in the Deep Roots of Cratons"in Session DI31A (Abstract #: 126871) on Wednesday, 14 December 2016, 8am-12:20pm.

CIDER: Participant in the "Flow in the Deep Earth" (CIDER 2016 Summer Program) at Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, CA, June 26-July 23, 2016.

ERES: Participant in the "Emerging Researchers in Exoplanet Science II" (ERES II) Meeting at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, June 13-14, 2016.

Publication in Preparation

“Elemental Abundance Model of Rocky Planets”. Li Zeng, Stein B. Jacobsen, and Dimitar D. Sasselov.

“Platinum as Tracer for Late Veneer Mixing into Early Mantle”. Li Zeng, Stein B. Jacobsen, and Dimitar D. Sasselov.

“On the Origin of High Shear Wave Velocities in the Deep Roots of Cratons”. Li Zeng (Harvard), Megan Duncan (Carnegie Inst.), Joshua Garber (UCSB), Jean-Alexis Hernandez (ENS Lyon), Satish Maurya (IPG Paris), Hongluo Zhang (USTC), Ulrich Faul (MIT), Catherine McCammon (U. of Bayreuth), Jean-Paul Montagner (IPG Paris), Louis Moresi (U. of Melbourne), Barbara Romanowicz (UC Berkeley & IPG Paris), and Lars Stixrude (U. College London). American Geophysical Union 2016 Annual Meeting Conference Abstract. Presenting in Session DI31A (Abstract #: 126871) on Wednesday, 14 December 2016, 8am-12:20pm.