Date: Monday 24-Feb-2025
Time: 11:15 am - 12:15 pm
Location: ATL 1250 and Zoom (contact host Matt Nixon for link)
Speaker: William DeRocco (University of Maryland)
Title: Free-floating planets in the era of Roman
Abstract: The Roman Space Telescope's Galactic Bulge Time Domain Survey will provide a new window into the demographics of free-floating planets, planets unbound to any star. The mass and velocity distributions of this population hold key insights into their formation mechanisms and the growth of planetary systems in a short-lived period of early dynamical instability that is otherwise difficult to probe observationally. In this talk, I will show the results of the first simulation-based prediction for the Galactic free-floating planet mass function and connect these results to particular features in the mass function that Roman will be able to observe.
If you have any questions, contact the PALS hosts: Benjamin Sharkey (small bodies) and Matt Nixon (exoplanets).
SPECIAL ACCOMMODATIONS:Special accommodations for individuals with disabilities can be made by calling (301) 405-3001. It would be appreciated if we are notified at least one week in advance.
ATL 1250 is a flat, carpeted conference room that can accommodate approximately 20-30 people at large tables. The closest wheelchair accessible entry to this room in the Atlantic building is the white stone entrance at 224 Stadium Drive.
