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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.

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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.

⚙ Under the hood

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.

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2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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