A boring skeptic

The chart shows some clear patterns worth noting: The red cluster (sparse slices, n < 20) in the 10²³–10²⁴ range is very noisy — b swings from -0.42 to +1.42, which makes sense given only 6–17 data points going into the MCMC. Don't trust those.

The blue points tell a more interesting story — there appear to be at least two regimes:

1) Around 10²⁴–10²⁶ kg, b is scattered near 0 with high b_std, suggesting the sampler is struggling to find a consistent slope — this is likely the transition zone between Durand-Manterola's Class A/B boundary (~5×10²⁵ kg)

2) From ~10²⁶ kg upward, b converges tightly around -0.257 with very small b_std — that's a strong, stable signal in the Jovian/Class C regime

The fact that b is negative in the upper mass range is physically interesting — it means radius shrinks slightly with increasing mass for gas giants, which is consistent with electron degeneracy pressure effects in the Jovian regime. Durand-Manterola's Class C exponent from the paper would be the direct comparison point as wider slices are run.

Updated, v0.2.0: Exoplanets plotted by mass vs. radius. Now with better weighting and filtering of data: 3,158 records from the NASA Exoplanet Archive.

Exoplanets plotted by mass vs. radius. 1,654 records from the NASA Exoplanet Archive where mass and radius are measured, not marked as "calculated"

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Per pale uneven: dexter, azure, an estoile of eight points argent, one point to chief; sinister, celeste, a timberwolf tricipital passant, the uppermost head ululant, the middle head guardant, the lower head défléchi, all proper in sable, azure, celeste, and argent. ---

Field: Per pale uneven, dexter approximately one-third: azure (dark, of the sky); sinister: celeste (bright, of the waters).

Dexter charge: An estoile of eight points argent, one point oriented to chief.

Sinister charge: A timberwolf tricipital — that is, a single wolf of three heads — depicted in full-body profile passant, rendered in the tinctures sable, azure, celeste, and argent. The uppermost head is ululant (howling), chin raised to chief; the middle head is guardant, facing dexter; the lowermost head is défléchi (inclined toward base), in the attitude of scenting the ground. The body is that of one beast entire, the three necks rising from a single form.

The beast faces the sinister, as though regarding the waters of the state.

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