Rogue Planets
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Final project for PHYS 221 Relativity and Cosmology
Report | Presentation
Rogue planets are unbound, planet‐mass bodies drifting through the Galaxy.
- Origin: sub‐brown dwarfs from collapsing gas clouds or as planets ejected from young systems
- Detection: via microlensing and thermal imaging
- Simulation: predict their chances of capture, flyby, or exchange when encountering a star and its planet.