Scatter plots of the CARMENES DR1 exoplanet sample compared to the complete sample of catalogued planets in the NASA Exoplanet Archive detected via RVs (903; small dots). Different symbols indicate planets newly detected from the CARMENES blind survey (33; stars), planets confirmed from transit follow-up (26; circles), and known planets re-analysed with CARMENES data (17; triangles). The three panels correspond to pairs of different relevant parameters, with the complementary colour scale introducing a third dimension. The histograms along the axes show distributions of the corresponding parameters for the CARMENES planet sample. The blue shaded band in the top-right panel represents the liquid-water habitable zone with limits defined by the ‘runaway greenhouse’ and ‘maximum greenhouse’ criteria (Kopparapu et al. 2013).