The same gas-pressure stellar homology estimates give and . With Kramers' opacity law , radiative diffusion gives
Consequently the claimed exponent five additionally requires the approximate low-mass main-sequence mass-radius relation and fixed composition:
The supplied opacity and pressure assumptions alone do not establish that mass-radius relation. For example, a homologous fixed-radius family obeys those scaling assumptions but gives , not . More generally gives . Very low-mass stars can be convective, where this radiative model ceases to apply.
The common one-per-cent exoplanet transit depth gives . Apply the supplied main-sequence mass-radius relation, , and Kepler's third law, neglecting the planet mass. For days,
The companions are approximately Jupiter-sized and Earth-sized respectively; these are sizes, not independently determined masses. The duration uses the small-planet chord approximation. Counting the finite planet radius would increase first-to-fourth-contact durations by about ten per cent for central transits.
For equal distance, passband, cadence and noise dominated by stellar photon counting, the supplied mass-luminosity relation makes the solar-mass host about times more luminous, with a transit about times longer. At equal fractional exoplanet transit depth, signal-to-noise per event scales as , favouring the solar-mass host by about . Equal apparent brightness would remove the luminosity advantage but retain the duration advantage. Without distances and noise properties the relative detectability is conditional. Transit probability is also larger for the solar-mass case, about versus .