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Exploring Free Floating Planets With Microlensing

, 2012
About one year ago, the MOA microlensing team announced the discovery of a free floating planet population with the method of gravitational microlensing (Sumi et al. 2011). In this thesis, we test the possibility of these planets being in reality bound but getting confused as free floating because of the shape of their light curve.
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Direct Metal Deposition of Graphene–Ti28Nb35.4Zr Matrix Composites With Enhanced Mechanical, Corrosion, and Biocompatibility Properties for Bone Implants

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Graphene nanoplatelet (0.1 wt.%) reinforcement significantly enhances the performance of β Ti‐28Nb‐35.4Zr alloy. Grain refinement, reduced water contact angle, and improved surface characteristics promote osteoblast adhesion and complete surface coverage after 7 days.
Khurram Munir, Jixing Lin, Yuncang Li, Li Zhu, Paul F. A. Wright, Cuie Wen   +5 more
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A Robust Launching Mechanism for Free- floating Planets from Host Stars with Close-in Planets

The Astrophysical Journal
Secular perturbations from binary stars and distant massive planets can drive cold planets onto nearly parabolic orbits with pericenter passages extremely close to their host stars.
Xiaochen Zheng, Zhuoya Cao, Shigeru Ida, Douglas N. C. Lin, Shude Mao   +4 more
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Collisions of Free-floating Planets with Evolved Stars in Globular Clusters [PDF]

The Astrophysical Journal, 2002
We estimate the rate of collisions between stars and free-floating planets (FFPs) in globular clusters, in particular the collision of FFPs with red giant branch (RGB) stars. Recent dynamical simulations imply that the density of such objects could exceed million per cubic parsec near the cores of rich globular clusters.
Soker, Noam, Rappaport, Saul, Fregeau, John   +2 more
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Electrochemical Behavior of Flame‐Sprayed Sc‐Doped AlCoCrFeMo High‐Entropy Alloy Coatings in 3.5% Sodium Chloride Solution

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Scandium (Sc)‐doped AlCoCrFeMo HEA coatings are fabricated via flame spraying with 0.1, 0.3, and 0.5 wt% Sc additions. Among these, the HEA‐Sc0.3 coating exhibits the highest corrosion resistance, indicated by a more positive corrosion potential and lower current density.
Pankaj Kumar, Akash Vyas, Mohammad Aatif Qazi, Nashit Jalal, Maria Ophelia Jarligo, Mostafa Yakout, Jing Liu, André McDonald   +7 more
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Ideal Molecular Sieving with a Dense MOF for Helium Upgrading with Highly Diffusion Selective Mixed Matrix Membranes

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
The separation of Helium gas from natural gas is challenging but highly important. MIL‐116(Ga), a “non‐porous” metal–organic framework is used as a molecular sieve to separate He from CH4. Druse‐like MIL‐116(Ga) particles are integrated into polysulfone mixed matrix membranes.
Ayisha Komal, Laura Calderón‐Rodríguez, Oksana Smirnova, Eren Grossmann, Aparna Binu Varghese, Karen Marlenne Garcia Alvarez, Andreas Schneemann, Thomas Hoyer, Ralf Wyrwa, Felix Helmut Schacher, Alexander Knebel   +10 more
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The Demographics of Rocky Free-floating Planets and their Detectability by WFIRST [PDF]

The Astrophysical Journal, 2017
Abstract Planets are thought to form via accretion from a remnant disk of gas and solids around a newly formed star. During this process, material in the disk either remains bound to the star as part of either a planet, a smaller celestial body, or makes up part of the the interplanetary medium; falls into the star; or is ejected from ...
Barclay, Thomas, Quintana, Elisa V., Raymond, Sean N., Penny, Matthew T.   +3 more
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Multiplicity of young brown dwarfs and isolated planetary mass objects in Taurus and Upper Scorpius

Astronomy & Astrophysics
Context. Free-floating planetary mass objects – worlds that roam interstellar space untethered to a parent star – challenge conventional notions of planetary formation and migration, but also of star and brown dwarf formation. Aims.
Bouy H., Duchêne G., Strampelli G., Aguilar J., Olivares J., Palau A., Barrado D., Raymond S. N., Huélamo N., Tamura M., Bertin E., Brandner W., Cuillandre J.-C., Galli P. A. B., Miret-Roig N.   +14 more
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Detectability of Free Floating Planets in Open Clusters with JWST

, 2013
Recent observations have shown the presence of extra-solar planets in Galactic open stellar clusters, as in the Praesepe (M44). These systems provide a favorable environment for planetary formation due to the high heavy-element content exhibited by the ...
D'Onghia, Elena, Ferrara, Andrea, Pacucci, Fabio   +2 more
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3D‐Printed Sulfur‐Derived Polymers With Controlled Architectures for Lithium‐Sulfur Batteries

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Rheology‐guided formulation design for direct ink writing enables the fabrication of 3D sulfur copolymer cathodes with controlled architectures for lithium‐sulfur batteries. The printed electrodes exhibit multiscale porosity and high sulfur utilization, delivering enhanced electrochemical performance compared to conventional cast electrodes.
Bin Ling, Haoran Wang, Pan Yang, Rishav Agrawal, Alex R. Neale, Laurence J. Hardwick, Tom Hasell, Esther García‐Tuñón   +7 more
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