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The Demographics of Rocky Free-floating Planets and their Detectability by WFIRST

  • Authors: Thomas Barclay, Elisa V. Quintana, Sean N. Raymond, and Matthew T. Penny

2017 The Astrophysical Journal 841 86.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 6.

Comparison between the mass distribution of bound planets in our simulations with the planets that were ejected. While both types of simulations form bound planets with masses from 0.3 to 1.0 M, no large bodies are ejected. The properties of the bound population do not match the ejected population. Specifically, more planets form without giant planets and more planetesimals remain bound. We only show data from the primary simulations in this figure and do not include data from Raymond et al. (2011).

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