5 papers
An Updated SynthPop Model for Microlensing Simulations I: Model Description & Evaluation
Macy J. Huston, Alison L. Crisp, Marz Newman +21
The optimization and interpretation of microlensing surveys depends on having an accurate model of the Milky Way. However, existing population synthesis Galactic modeling tools oft…
Are We There Yet? Challenges in Quantifying the Frequency of Earth Analogs in the Habitable Zone
Rachel B. Fernandes, Samson Johnson, Galen J. Bergsten +43
Searching for life elsewhere in the universe is one of the most highly prioritized pursuits in astronomy today. However, the ability to observe evidence of Earth-like life through…
A Near-Infrared Extinction and Reddening Map Towards the Galactic Bulge Using UKIRT
Aiden S. Zelakiewicz, Samson A. Johnson, B. Scott Gaudi +3
The Galactic bulge is one of the most information-dense regions to study resolved stellar populations, variables, and transients, such as microlensing events. Studies toward the Ga…
Predictions of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Galactic Exoplanet Survey. III. Detectability of Giant Exomoons of Wide Separation Giant Planets
Matthew Lastovka, B. Scott Gaudi, Samson A. Johnson +3
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman) will conduct a Galactic Exoplanet Survey (RGES) to discover bound and free-floating exoplanets using gravitational microlensing. Roman…
Prospects for Reconstructing the Free-floating Planet Mass Function at the Population Level with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
William DeRocco, Matthew T. Penny, Samson A. Johnson +2
Free-floating planets comprise one of the most enigmatic populations of exoplanets in the Galaxy. Though ground-based observations point to a large abundance of these worlds, littl…