Free-floating Planet Mass Function from MOA-II 9 yr Survey toward the Galactic Bulge

Free-floating Planet Mass Function from MOA-II 9 yr Survey toward the Galactic Bulge

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. Six events are likely to be due to planets with Einstein radius crossing times t _E < 0.5 days, and the shorte...

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Main Authors: Takahiro Sumi, Naoki Koshimoto, David P. Bennett, Nicholas J. Rattenbury, Fumio Abe, Richard Barry, Aparna Bhattacharya, Ian A. Bond, Hirosane Fujii, Akihiko Fukui, Ryusei Hamada, Yuki Hirao, Stela Ishitani Silva, Yoshitaka Itow, Rintaro Kirikawa, Iona Kondo, Yutaka Matsubara, Shota Miyazaki, Yasushi Muraki, Greg Olmschenk, Clément Ranc, Yuki Satoh, Daisuke Suzuki, Mio Tomoyoshi, Paul . J. Tristram, Aikaterini Vandorou, Hibiki Yama, Kansuke Yamashita, MOA Collaboration
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2023-01-01
Series:The Astronomical Journal
Subjects:
Gravitational microlensing
Gravitational microlensing exoplanet detection
Free floating planets
Exoplanet astronomy
Galactic bulge
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ace688

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