Measurement of the Free-Floating Planet Mass Function with Simultaneous Euclid and WFIRST Microlensing Parallax Observations

Matthew Penny, Etienne Bachelet, Samson Johnson, Jean-Phillipe Beaulieu, Eamonn Kerins, Jason Rhodes, Rachel Akeson, David Bennett, Charles Beichman, Aparna Bhattacharya, Valerio Bozza, Sebastiano Calchi Novati, B. Scott Gaudi, Calen B. Hendederson, Shude Mao, Radek Poleski, Clement Ranc, Kailash C. Sahu, Yossi Shvartzvald, Rachel Street

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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....
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JournalBulletin of the American Astronomical Society
Publication statusPublished - May 2019

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