Dynamical Masses for Free-Floating Planetary-Mass Binaries

0 Assigned ID: 402 ----- Attempting Submission 1 (Fri Apr 11 08:46:06 GMT 2014) ----- HST Phase I Proposal 402 (orbits.apt) successfully submitted. ----- Attempting Submission 2 (Fri Apr 11 21:36:51 GMT 2014) ----- HST Phase I Proposal 402 (orbits.apt) successfully submitted. ----- Attempting Submission 3 (Fri Apr 11 23:26:35 GMT 2014) ----- Updated the coordinates of WISE2344 to account for large, previously unknown, proper motion. 947769493 ----- Attempting Submission 1 (Tue Jul 08 04:50:14 GMT 2014) ----- ----- Attempting Submission 2 (Tue Sep 23 05:21:29 GMT 2014) ----- ----- Attempting Submission 3 (Tue Dec 09 22:33:27 GMT 2014) ----- Dynamical Masses for Free-Floating Planetary-Mass Binaries We propose a 3-year orbit monitoring program to measure the first dynamical masses in the planetary-mass regime (5-15 Mjup) for free-floating objects, including the first known Y dwarf binary. With projected separations of only 0.7-1.4 AU, our targets are among the tightest substellar visual binaries ever found and are amenable to orbit determinations within only a few years. When combined with our parallax determination, these data will yield dynamical masses with <10% uncertainties. Two of our targets are late-T/Y dwarf field binaries (ages ~ 1-5 Gyr) and will provide the first empirical calibration in the poorly understood temperature regime of ~350-500 K, relevant both to free-floating objects and radial-velocity exoplanets. Such extreme conditions are the frontier of current theory, e.g. model uncertainties in non-equilibrium chemistry, metallicity, and clouds yield mass estimates that currently span an order of magnitude. Our third target is a young field L dwarf (age ~ 10-100 Myr), one of the rare field objects that that serve as analogs for young directly imaged exoplanets. Our dynamical mass combined with evolutionary models will yield the first precise age and temperature estimates for such an object, thereby testing our ability to derive physical parameters from current models. Our targets have been discovered at the limits of existing facilities and thus promise to be the only viable objects in the planetary-mass regime for direct mass measurements until next-generation facilities like JWST come online. The goal of our observations is to obtain precise relative astrometry (~3--5 mas) for three free-floating, planetary-mass binaries. Our data spanning 3 cycles will allow us to determine their orbits and thereby measure their dynamical masses. ACS/WFC enables a finer pixel scale than WFC3/IR and better sensitivity than WFC3/UVIS, both of which (high SNR, and better deblending of our tight <~0.1" binaries) are key to achieving our science goals. We use a standard 3-position dither sequence to guard against cosmic rays and to sample different parts of the detector in case our target lands on a bad pixel in a single pointing. We set the exposure times to fill the time available in each visit, which will yield SNR of ~30--40 for our two fainter WISE sources and will not saturate the brighter 2MASS source. COOL STARS Default false false false false false SUPPORTED STAR BROWN DWARF L This object was generated by the targetselector and retrieved from the SIMBAD database. J2000 J2000 J=16.3 mag STAR BROWN DWARF T J2000 J2000 J=20.7 mag STAR BROWN DWARF T J2000 J2000 J=18.8 mag STAR BROWN DWARF T J2000 J2000 J=18.8 mag WFC3/UVIS Imaging No No F850LP WFC3/UVIS Imaging No No F850LP WFC3/UVIS Imaging No No F850LP WFC3/UVIS Imaging No No F850LP WFC3/UVIS Imaging No No F850LP WFC3/UVIS Imaging No No F850LP WFC3/UVIS Imaging No No F850LP WFC3/UVIS Imaging No No F850LP WFC3/UVIS Imaging No No F850LP WFC3/UVIS Imaging No No F850LP WFC3/UVIS Imaging No No F850LP WFC3/UVIS Imaging No No F850LP WFC3/UVIS Imaging No No F850LP WFC3/UVIS Imaging No No F850LP WFC3/UVIS Imaging No No F850LP WFC3/UVIS Imaging No No F850LP WFC3/UVIS Imaging No No F850LP WFC3/UVIS Imaging No No F850LP POS-TARG DITHER 3.011 LINE false false 3 85.28 ACS-WFC-DITHER-LINE 1

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