Free-floating or Wide-orbit? Keck Adaptive-optics Observations of Free-floating Planet Candidates Detected with Gravitational Microlensing
Recent detections of extremely short-timescale microlensing events imply the existence of a large population of Earth- to Neptune-mass planets that appear to have no host stars. However, it is currently unknown whether these objects are truly free-floating planets or whether they are in wide orbits...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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IOP Publishing
2023-01-01
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Series: | The Astronomical Journal |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ad1106 |