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The mass distribution of transiting exoplanets has been corrected for observational selection effects: the probability of a mass determination (for planets detected by the Kepler Space Telescope) and the probability of a transiting configuration. The corrected mass distribution of exoplanets can be fitted by a power law with an exponent of \( - 2_{ - 0.16}^{ + 0.1}:\;{\textstyle{{dN} \over {dm}}} \propto {m^{ - 2_{ - 0.16}^{ + 0.1}}}\). Two minima corresponding to 0.3–0.7 and 4–7 Jupiter masses have been revealed.
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Our work was supported by the Ministry of Higher Education and Science of the Russian Federation (project no. N14.W03.31.0017) and the Russian Science Foundation (project no. N18-19-00452).
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Russian Text © The Author(s), 2019, published in Pis’ma v Astronomicheskii Zhurnal, 2019, Vol. 45, No. 10, pp. 741–748.
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Ivanova, A.E., Ananyeva, V.I., Venkstern, A.A. et al. The Mass Distribution of Transiting Exoplanets Corrected for Observational Selection Effects. Astron. Lett. 45, 687–694 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063773719100049
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