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Secure Identification of Free‐floating Planets
Astrophysical Journal, 2006 Among the methods proposed to detect extrasolar planets, microlensing is the only technique that can detect free-floating planets. Free-floating planets are detected through the channel of short-duration isolated lensing events.
Cheongho Han
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Free-floating Planets, Survivor Planets, Captured Planets, and Binary Planets from Stellar Flybys
The Astrophysical JournalIn star clusters, close stellar encounters can strongly impact the architecture of a planetary system or even destroy it. We present a systematic study of the effects of stellar flybys on two-planet systems.
Fangyuan Yu, Dong Lai
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Close encounters involving free-floating planets in star clusters [PDF]
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2015 Instabilities in planetary systems can result in the ejection of planets from their host system, resulting in free-floating planets (FFPs). If this occurs in a star cluster, the FFP may remain bound to the star cluster for some time and interact with the
Long Wang +2 more
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The Astronomical Journal, 2023 Recent detections of extremely short-timescale microlensing events imply the existence of a large population of Earth- to Neptune-mass planets that appear to have no host stars.
Przemek Mróz +3 more
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ON THE ORIGIN OF PLANETS AT VERY WIDE ORBITS FROM THE RECAPTURE OF FREE FLOATING PLANETS
Astrophysical Journal, 2012 In recent years several planets have been discovered at wide orbits (>100 AU) around their host stars. Theoretical studies encounter difficulties in explaining their formation and origin.
Hagai B. Perets, M B N Kouwenhoven
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Two new free-floating or wide-orbit planets from microlensing [PDF]
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2019 Planet formation theories predict the existence of free-floating planets that have been ejected from their parent systems. Although they emit little or no light, they can be detected during gravitational microlensing events. Microlensing events caused by
Przemek Mroz +2 more
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Tables of Rosseland mean opacities for candidate atmospheres of life hosting free-floating planets
Open Physics, 2010 Badescu Viorel
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Hunting for Cold Exoplanets via Microlensing
Comptes Rendus. Physique, 2023 Microlensing can detect planets at distances ranging from a few hundred parsecs all the way to the Galactic center. The maximum sensitivity is reached for systems that are located half way to the galactic center, with planets orbiting the lens star at a ...
Beaulieu, Jean-Philippe
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Are There Terrestrial Planets Lurking in the Outer Solar System?
The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2023 Motivated by recent measurements of the free-floating-planet mass function at terrestrial masses, we consider the possibility that the solar system may have captured a terrestrial planet early in its history.
Amir Siraj
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Primordial Planets with an Admixture of Dark Matter Particles and Baryonic Matter
Universe, 2023 It has been suggested that primordial planets could have formed in the early universe and the missing baryons in the universe could be explained by primordial free-floating planets of solid hydrogen.
O. V. Kiren +2 more
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