  The properties of two-component Fermi gases with zero-range interactions are
universal. We use an explicitly correlated Gaussian basis set expansion
approach to investigate small equal-mass two-component Fermi gases under
spherically symmetric external harmonic confinement. At unitarity, we determine
the ground state energy for systems with up to ten particles interacting
through finite-range two-body potentials for both even and odd number of
particles. We extrapolate the energies to the zero-range limit using a novel
scheme that removes the linear and, in some cases, also the quadratic
dependence of the ground state energies on the two-body range. Our extrapolated
zero-range energies are compared with results from the literature. We also
calculate the two-body Tan contact and structural properties.
