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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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Interaction of free-floating planets with a star–planet pair [PDF]
Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, 2012 The recent discovery of free-floating planets and their theoretical interpretation as celestial bodies, either condensed independently or ejected from parent stars in tight clusters, introduced an intriguing possibility. Namely, that some exoplanets are not condensed from the protoplanetary disk of their parent star.
Varvoglis, Harry +2 more
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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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Multiplicity among free-floating planets
, 2022 International audienceWe propose to use WFC3/UVIS to study the multiplicity of a sample of 60 young free-floating planets recently identified in the nearby Upper Scoand Taurus associations.
Barrado Navascues, David +15 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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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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Planet–planet scattering alone cannot explain the free-floating planet population [PDF]
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 2012 ABSTRACT Recent gravitational microlensing observations predict a vast population of free-floating giant planets that outnumbers main-sequence stars almost twofold. A frequently invoked mechanism for generating this population is a dynamical instability that incites planet–planet scattering and the ejection of one or more planets in ...
Veras, Dimitri, Raymond, Sean N.
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Microlensing for extrasolar planets : improving the photometry [PDF]
, 2013 Gravitational Microlensing, as a technique for detecting Extrasolar Planets, is recognised for its potential in discovering small-mass planets similar to Earth, at a distance of a few Astronomical Units from their host stars.
Bajek, David J.
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Microlensing planets in M 22: Free-floating or bound? [PDF]
Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2001 We use detailed numerical simulations and theoretical estimates to show that, if confirmed, the unusually brief microlensing events observed by Sahu et al. (2001) in the field of the globular cluster M22 might be explained as a result of microlensing by a population of clustered MACHOs, a dark cluster or RAMBO, not associated with the globular cluster.
Marcos, R. de la Fuente +1 more
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