Mass plot of Gas Giant types

I made a plot of the masses of the 1283 gas giants that I've visited (they're all from my EDDiscovery logs) - the masses are on the Y axis, the number found are on the X axis. Interestingly, Class IIIs are the most numerous by far (I thought Class Is would be the most common), and they span the whole mass range from just over 1 ME (rather unlikely!) to 3500 ME (which is getting into small Brown Dwarf territory). Class IVs tend to be more massive though - the lower mass Class IVs are found close to stars (the high local temperature is what makes them Class IV), but the high mass Class IVs can be found anywhere because their high mass is what makes them hot (and therefore Class IV). Class V are similar but rarer.

Class II GGs are the pale blue line that runs almost along the red "GG with Water Life" line (Class IIs go up to about 1250 ME, water life goes up to 1000 ME). The purple line below that are the Class Is (going from up to about 850 ME). The dark blue line below that are the Ammonia LIfe GGs (up to 800 ME). Class IIIs go up to 3500 ME, Class IVs to 3800 ME, and Class Vs to at least 3550 ME. Helium Rich ones are the rarest and seem to go up to about 1000 ME. The Water Giants I've found are between 20 and 130 ME.

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UI, that is interesting. Great work :)
I like especially that it is not about the "usual suspects" (a.k.a. ELW's ;) )

I wonder where the steps are comming from.
And why are the shapes of the curves so different for some classes?

Could you make a histogramm plot? That may be beneficial to figure out similarities in the mass distribution.
 
Histogram, as requested :). The Class I peak (truncated so the others would be clearer) goes up to 245. The Mass numbers are a bit displaced in the table - "100" is actually 0-100 earth masses, "200" is 101-200 earth masses, etc - so most Class I GGs are 0-100 earth masses. 1 Jupiter Mass is 318 earth masses, so the max here (about 3800 Earth Masses) is 12 Jupiter Masses.

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Ah, yes, that's great.

All of them have a "high mass shoulder", but for Class III it seems to be more pronounced. I've read a while ago about the gas giant classification at that may be related to it. But I can't really remember anything of what I've read.

But these are some interesting results … You can apply for funding and say that more research is required ;)
 
Yes, it does look like that … Well, I may run a mass-analysis of all reported gas giants and then we can compare :) … but I'm busy with other stuff at the moment.
 
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