Euclid-Roman joint microlensing survey: Early mass measurement, free floating planets, and exomoons
Euclid-Roman joint microlensing survey: Early mass measurement, free floating planets, and exomoons
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欧几里得-罗马联合微透镜勘测:早期质量测量、自由漂浮行星和系外卫星
DOI:
10.1051/0004-6361/202140351
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发表时间:
2022
影响因子:
6.5
通讯作者:
Meade, E.
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作者:
Bachelet, E.;Specht, D.;Penny, M.;Hundertmark, M.;Awiphan, S.;Beaulieu, J.-P.;Dominik, M.;Kerins, E.;Maoz, D.;Meade, E.
As theKeplermission has done for hot exoplanets, the ESAEuclidand NASARomanmissions have the potential to create a breakthrough in our understanding of the demographics of cool exoplanets, including unbound, or free-floating, planets (FFPs).Romanwill dedicate part of its core survey program to the detection of cool exoplanets via microlensing, whileEuclidmay undertake a microlensing program as an ancillary science goal. In this study, we demonstrate the complementarity of the two missions and propose two joint surveys to better constrain the mass and distance of microlensing events. We first demonstrate that an early briefEuclidsurvey (~7 h) of theRomanmicrolensing fields will allow the measurement of at least 30% of the events’ relative proper motionsµreland 42% of the lens magnitudes. This survey would place strong constraints on the mass and distance on thousands of microlensing events observed byRomanjust after the first year of observation. Then, we study the potential of simultaneous observations byRomanandEuclidto enable the measurement of the microlensing parallax for the shortest microlensing events and, ultimately, obtain a direct measurement of the masses, distances, and transverse motions of FFPs. Using detailed simulations of the joint detection yield we show that within one yearRoman-Euclidobservations will be at least an order of magnitude more sensitive than current ground-based measurements. The recent tentative detection of an excess of short-duration events by the OGLE survey is consistent with a scenario of up to ten Earth-mass FFPs per Galactic star. For such a scenario a jointRoman-Euclidcampaign should detect around 130 FFP events within a year, including 110 with measured parallax that strongly constrain the FFP mass, and around 30 FFP events with direct mass and distance measurements. The ability of the joint survey to completely break the microlens mass-distance-velocity degeneracy for a significant subset of events provides a unique opportunity to verify unambiguously the FFP hypothesis or else place abundance limits for FFPs between Earth and Jupiter masses that are up to two orders of magnitude stronger than provided by ground-based surveys. Finally, we study the capabilities of the joint survey to enhance the detection and characterization of exomoons, and find that it could lead to the detection of the first exomoon.
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-319-55333-7_143
发表时间:
2010
期刊:
arXiv: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
影响因子:
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作者:
C. Mordasini
通讯作者:
C. Mordasini