Rogue Planet Cooling Track & Detection Curve
2D companion to the 3D rogue planet detector: a cooling-track diagram (luminosity vs age, isochrones for several masses) plus a brightness-vs-distance curve, showing exactly where a free-floating planet crosses a survey telescope's detection limit.
This is a 2D-native companion to the 3D rogue planet infrared glow detector. Instead of watching a single glowing sphere drift through a starfield, this view plots the same Kelvin–Helmholtz cooling physics the way astronomers actually chart it: a luminosity-vs-age cooling track (isochrone diagram) on log–log axes, with the current mass's track highlighted against a few reference masses, and a live marker showing exactly where the planet sits as it ages and fades. A second panel plots apparent magnitude against distance, with the chosen survey telescope's detection limit drawn as an explicit horizontal line — so instead of reading a single pass/fail verdict, you can see the whole trade space and exactly how far the crossing point would need to move for a planet to become detectable (or drop out of range). Adjust mass, age and distance, and switch telescopes, to watch both curves and their thresholds respond together.
2D companion to the 3D rogue planet detector: a cooling-track diagram (luminosity vs age, isochrones for several masses) plus a brightness-vs-distance curve, showing exactly where a free-floating planet crosses a real survey telescope's detection limit.
2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install