Large-Scale Searches for Brown Dwarfs and Free-Floating Planets [PDF]
, 2018 Searches of large scale surveys have resulted in the discovery of over 1000 brown dwarfs in the Solar neighbourhood. In this chapter we review the progress in finding brown dwarfs in large datasets, highlighting the key science goals, and summarising the surveys that have contributed most significantly to the current sample.
Ben Burningham
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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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On the detection of free-floating planets through microlensing towards the Magellanic Clouds [PDF]
Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2021 In this work, we study detecting free-floating planets (FFPs) by microlensing observations towards the Magellanic Clouds (MCs). In comparison to similar events towards the Galactic bulge, an FFP in the Galactic halo produces on average longer ...
S. Sajadian
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Presence of water on exomoons orbiting free-floating planets: a case study [PDF]
International Journal of Astrobiology, 2021 A free-floating planet (FFP) is a planetary-mass object that orbits around a non-stellar massive object (e.g. a brown dwarf) or around the Galactic Centre. The presence of exomoons orbiting FFPs has been theoretically predicted by several models.
P. Ávila +6 more
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Impact of Water-latent Heat on the Thermal Structure of Ultra-cool Objects: Brown Dwarfs and Free-floating Planets [PDF]
Astrophysical Journal, 2021 Brown dwarfs are essential targets for understanding planetary and sub-stellar atmospheres across a wide range of thermal and chemical conditions. As surveys continue to probe ever deeper and as observing capabilities continue to improve, the number of ...
S. Tang +5 more
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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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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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Investigating the free-floating planet mass by Euclid observations [PDF]
Astrophysics and Space Science, 2016 Astrophysics and Space Science ...
Lindita Hamolli +7 more
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Free-floating Planet Mass Function from MOA-II 9 yr Survey toward the Galactic Bulge
The Astronomical Journal, 2023 We present the first measurement of the mass function of free-floating planets (FFPs), or very wide orbit planets down to an Earth mass, from the MOA-II microlensing survey in 2006–2014.
Takahiro Sumi +28 more
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