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2025AJ....170..132Y - Astron. J., 170, 132 (2025/August-0)

Microlensing Constraints on the Stellar and Planetary Mass Functions.

YEE J.C. and KENYON S.J.

Abstract (from CDS):

The mass function (MF) of isolated objects measured by microlensing consists of both a stellar and a planetary component. We compare the microlensing MFs of A. Gould et al. and T. Sumi et al. to other measurements of the MF. The abundance of brown dwarfs from the tail of the T. Sumi et al. stellar MF is consistent with measurements from the local solar neighborhood. Microlensing free-floating planets (μFFPs) may be free-floating or orbit host stars with semimajor axes a ≳ 10 au and therefore can constrain the populations of both free-floating and wide-orbit planets. Comparisons to radial velocity and direct imaging low-mass companion populations suggest that either most of the μFFP population with masses > 1 MJup is bound to hosts more massive than M dwarfs, or some fraction of the observed companion population 1 MJup < mp < 0.08 M⊙ actually comes from the low-mass tail of the stellar MF. The μFFP population also places strong constraints on planets inferred from debris disks and gaps in protoplanetary disks observed by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array.

Abstract Copyright: © 2025. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.

Journal keyword(s): Exoplanets - Gravitational microlensing exoplanet detection - Debris disks - Protoplanetary disks

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