Measurement of the Free-Floating Planet Mass Function with Simultaneous Euclid and WFIRST Microlensing Parallax Observations
Abstract
Free-floating planets (FFPs) are the remnants of violent dynamical rearrangements of planetary systems. This white paper describes how the mass function of FFPs can be measured by combining WFIRST and Euclid microlensing observations, which WFIRST cannot do alone.
- Publication:
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Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- May 2019
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1903.08180
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1903.08180
- Bibcode:
- 2019BAAS...51c.563P
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- Astro2020 White Paper