Publications (190)
MOA-2010-BLG-523: "Failed Planet" = RS CVn Star
A. Gould, J. C. Yee, I. A. Bond +116
The Galactic bulge source MOA-2010-BLG-523S exhibited short-term deviations from a standard microlensing lightcurve near the peak of an Amax ~ 265 high-magnification microlensing e…
A 38 Million Year Old Neptune-Sized Planet in the Kepler Field
L. G. Bouma, J. L. Curtis, K. Masuda +12
Kepler 1627A is a G8V star previously known to host a 3.8 Earth-radius planet on a 7.2 day orbit. The star was observed by the Kepler space telescope because it is nearby (d=329 pc…
Atmospheric characterization of the ultra-hot Jupiter MASCARA-2b/KELT-20b
N. Casasayas-Barris, E. Palle, F. Yan +15
Ultra hot Jupiters orbit very close to their host star and consequently receive strong irradiation that makes their atmospheric chemistry different from the common gas giants. Here…
TOI-2015b: a sub-Neptune in strong gravitational interaction with an outer non-transiting planet
K. Barkaoui, J. Korth, E. Gaidos +119
TOI-2015 is a known exoplanetary system around an M4 dwarf star, consisting of a transiting sub-Neptune planet in a 3.35-day orbital period, TOI-2015b, accompanied by a non-transit…
Validation and atmospheric exploration of the sub-Neptune TOI-2136b around a nearby M3 dwarf
K. Kawauchi, F. Murgas, E. Palle +51
The NASA space telescope is currently in the extended mission of its all-sky search for new transiting planets. Of the thousands of candidates that TESS is expected to deliv…
The Lowest Mass Ratio Planetary Microlens: OGLE 2016-BLG-1195Lb
I. A. Bond, D. P. Bennett, T. Sumi +37
We report discovery of the lowest mass ratio exoplanet to be found by the microlensing method in the light curve of the event OGLE~2016--BLG--1195. This planet revealed itself as a…
AT2021uey: A planetary microlensing event outside the Galactic bulge
M. Ban, P. Voloshyn, R. Adomaviciene +42
We report the analysis of a planetary microlensing event AT2021uey. The event was observed outside the Galactic bulge and was alerted by both space- (Gaia) and ground-based (ZTF an…
The First Circumbinary Planet Found by Microlensing: OGLE-2007-BLG-349L(AB)c
D. P. Bennett, S. H. Rhie, A. Udalski +79
We present the analysis of the first circumbinary planet microlensing event, OGLE-2007-BLG-349. This event has a strong planetary signal that is best fit with a mass ratio of $q \a…
MANGOS II: Five new giant planets orbiting low-mass stars
G. Dransfield, M. Timmermans, D. Sebastian +47
Giant planets orbiting low-mass stars on short orbits present a conundrum, as in the most extreme cases their existence cannot be reconciled with current models of core accretion.…
Microlensing Discovery of a Population of Very Tight, Very Low-mass Binary Brown Dwarfs
J. -Y. Choi, C. Han, A. Udalski +121
Although many models have been proposed, the physical mechanisms responsible for the formation of low-mass brown dwarfs are poorly understood. The multiplicity properties and minim…
A Sub-Earth-Mass Moon Orbiting a Gas Giant Primary or a High Velocity Planetary System in the Galactic Bulge
D. P. Bennett, V. Batista, I. A. Bond +90
We present the first microlensing candidate for a free-floating exoplanet-exomoon system, MOA-2011-BLG-262, with a primary lens mass of M_host ~ 4 Jupiter masses hosting a sub-Eart…
OGLE 2008--BLG--290: An accurate measurement of the limb darkening of a Galactic Bulge K Giant spatially resolved by microlensing
P. Fouque, D. Heyrovsky, S. Dong +115
Gravitational microlensing is not only a successful tool for discovering distant exoplanets, but it also enables characterization of the lens and source stars involved in the lensi…
HD219666b: A hot-Neptune from TESS Sector 1
M. Esposito, D. J. Armstrong, D. Gandolfi +73
We report on the confirmation and mass determination of a transiting planet orbiting the old and inactive G7 dwarf star HD219666 (Mstar = 0.92 +/- 0.03 MSun, Rstar = 1.03 +/- 0.03…
Discovery of a hot, transiting, Earth-sized planet and a second temperate, non-transiting planet around the M4 dwarf GJ 3473 (TOI-488)
J. Kemmer, S. Stock, D. Kossakowski +93
We present the confirmation and characterisation of GJ 3473 b (G 50--16, TOI-488.01), a hot Earth-sized planet orbiting an M4 dwarf star, whose transiting signal ($P=1.1980035\pm0.…
Mass determination of the 1:3:5 near-resonant planets transiting GJ 9827 (K2-135)
J. Prieto-Arranz, E. Palle, D. Gandolfi +38
Aims. GJ 9827 (K2-135) has recently been found to host a tightly packed system consisting of three transiting small planets whose orbital periods of 1.2, 3.6, and 6.2 days are near…
Detection and Doppler monitoring of EPIC 246471491, a system of four transiting planets smaller than Neptune
E. Palle, G. Nowak, R. Luque +43
The Kepler extended mission, also known as K2, has provided the community with a wealth of planetary candidates that orbit stars typically much brighter than the targets of the ori…
OGLE-2016-BLG-1003: First Resolved Caustic-crossing Binary-source Event Discovered by Second-generation Microlensing Surveys
Y. K. Jung, A. Udalski, I. A. Bond +50
We report the analysis of the first resolved caustic-crossing binary-source microlensing event OGLE-2016-BLG-1003. The event is densely covered by the round-the-clock observations…
WFIRST Exoplanet Mass Measurement Method Finds a Planetary Mass of for OGLE-2012-BLG-0950Lb
A. Bhattacharya, J. P. Beaulieu, D. P. Bennett +13
We present the analysis of the simultaneous high resolution images from the {\it Hubble Space Telescope} and Keck Adaptive Optics system of the planetary event OGLE-2012-BLG-0950 t…
Ground-based parallax confirmed by Spitzer: binary microlensing event MOA-2015-BLG-020
Tianshu Wang, Wei Zhu, Shude Mao +83
We present the analysis of the binary gravitational microlensing event MOA-2015-BLG-020. The event has a fairly long timescale (about 63 days) and thus the light curve deviates sig…
K2-137 b: an Earth-sized planet in a 4.3-hour orbit around an M-dwarf
A. M. S. Smith, J. Cabrera, Sz. Csizmadia +34
We report the discovery from K2 of a transiting terrestrial planet in an ultra-short-period orbit around an M3-dwarf. K2-137 b completes an orbit in only 4.3 hours, the second-shor…
OGLE-2012-BLG-0950Lb: The First Planet Mass Measurement from Only Microlens Parallax and Lens Flux
N. Koshimoto, A. Udalski, J. P. Beaulieu +38
We report the discovery of a microlensing planet OGLE-2012-BLG-0950Lb with the planet/host mass ratio of . A long term distortion detected in both MOA and…
OGLE-2012-BLG-0563Lb: a Saturn-mass Planet around an M Dwarf with the Mass Constrained by Subaru AO imaging
A. Fukui, A. Gould, T. Sumi +58
We report the discovery of a microlensing exoplanet OGLE-2012-BLG-0563Lb with the planet-star mass ratio ~1 x 10^{-3}. Intensive photometric observations of a high-magnification mi…
Combining Spitzer parallax and Keck II adaptive optics imaging to measure the mass of a solar-like star orbited by a cold gaseous planet discovered by microlensing
J. -P. Beaulieu, V. Batista, D. P. Bennett +16
To obtain accurate mass measurements for cold planets discovered by microlensing, it is usually necessary to combine light curve modeling with at least two lens mass-distance relat…
TOI-6508b: A massive transiting brown dwarf orbiting a low-mass star
K. Barkaoui, D. Sebastian, S. Zúñiga-Fernández +44
We report the discovery of a transiting brown dwarf orbiting a low-mass star, TOI-6508b. Today, only ~50 transiting brown dwarfs have been discovered. TOI-6508b was first detected…
Spitzer Microlensing Parallax for OGLE-2016-BLG-1067: a sub-Jupiter Orbiting an M-dwarf in the Disk
S. Calchi Novati, D. Suzuki, A. Udalski +65
We report the discovery of a sub-Jupiter mass planet orbiting beyond the snow line of an M-dwarf most likely in the Galactic disk as part of the joint Spitzer and ground-based moni…
A Super-Jupiter orbiting a late-type star: A refined analysis of microlensing event OGLE-2012-BLG-0406
Y. Tsapras, J. -Y. Choi, R. A. Street +122
We present a detailed analysis of survey and follow-up observations of microlensing event OGLE-2012-BLG-0406 based on data obtained from 10 different observatories. Intensive cover…
K2-399 b is not a planet. The Saturn that wandered through the Neptune desert is actually a hierarchical eclipsing binary
J. Lillo-Box, D. W. Latham, K. A. Collins +19
The transit technique has been very efficient in detecting planet candidate signals over the past decades. The so-called statistical validation approach has become a popular way of…
Microlensing Event MOA-2007-BLG-400: Exhuming the Buried Signature of a Cool, Jovian-Mass Planet
Subo Dong, I. A. Bond, A. Gould +55
We report the detection of the cool, Jovian-mass planet MOA-2007-BLG-400Lb. The planet was detected in a high-magnification microlensing event (with peak magnification A_max = 628)…
TOI-1442 b and TOI-2445 b: two potentially rocky ultra-short period planets around M dwarfs
G. Morello, H. Parviainen, F. Murgas +52
Context. Exoplanets with orbital periods of less than one day are known as ultra-short period (USP) planets. They are relatively rare products of planetary formation and evolution…
Sub-Saturn Planet MOA-2008-BLG-310Lb: Likely To Be In The Galactic Bulge
Julia Janczak, A. Fukui, Subo Dong +13
We report the detection of sub-Saturn-mass planet MOA-2008-BLG-310Lb and argue that it is the strongest candidate yet for a bulge planet. Deviations from the single-lens fit are sm…
Lens mass estimate in the Galactic disk extreme parallax microlensing event Gaia19dke
M. MaskoliÅ«nas, Å. Wyrzykowski, K. Howil +74
We present the results of our analysis of Gaia19dke, an extraordinary microlensing event in the Cygnus constellation that was first spotted by the {\gaia} satellite. This event fea…
Gliese 12 b: A temperate Earth-sized planet at 12 pc ideal for atmospheric transmission spectroscopy
M. Kuzuhara, A. Fukui, J. H. Livingston +103
Recent discoveries of Earth-sized planets transiting nearby M dwarfs have made it possible to characterize the atmospheres of terrestrial planets via follow-up spectroscopic observ…
OGLE-2013-BLG-0132Lb and OGLE-2013-BLG-1721Lb: Two Saturn-mass Planets Discovered around M-dwarfs
Przemek Mroz, A. Udalski, I. A. Bond +37
We present the discovery of two planetary systems consisting of a Saturn-mass planet orbiting an M-dwarf, which were detected in faint microlensing events OGLE-2013-BLG-0132 and OG…
MOA-2010-BLG-477Lb: constraining the mass of a microlensing planet from microlensing parallax, orbital motion and detection of blended light
E. Bachelet, I. -G. Shin, C. Han +138
Microlensing detections of cool planets are important for the construction of an unbiased sample to estimate the frequency of planets beyond the snow line, which is where giant pla…
Planetary and Other Short Binary Microlensing Events from the MOA Short Event Analysis
D. P. Bennett, T. Sumi, I. A. Bond +22
We present the analysis of four candidate short duration binary microlensing events from the 2006-2007 MOA Project short event analysis. These events were discovered as a byproduct…
Characterizing Lenses and Lensed Stars of High-Magnification Single-lens Gravitational Microlensing Events With Lenses Passing Over Source Stars
J. -Y. Choi, I. -G. Shin, S. -Y. Park +148
We present the analysis of the light curves of 9 high-magnification single-lens gravitational microlensing events with lenses passing over source stars, including OGLE-2004-BLG-254…
Two new free-floating or wide-orbit planets from microlensing
P. Mroz, A. Udalski, D. P. Bennett +57
Planet formation theories predict the existence of free-floating planets that have been ejected from their parent systems. Although they emit little or no light, they can be detect…
The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Two planets on the opposite sides of the radius gap transiting the nearby M dwarf LTT 3780
G. Nowak, R. Luque, H. Parviainen +97
We present the discovery and characterisation of two transiting planets observed by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) orbiting the nearby (d ~ 22 pc), bright (J ~ 9…
Kojima-1Lb Is a Mildly Cold Neptune around the Brightest Microlensing Host Star
A. Fukui, D. Suzuki, N. Koshimoto +56
We report the analysis of additional multiband photometry and spectroscopy and new adaptive optics (AO) imaging of the nearby planetary microlensing event TCP J05074264+2447555 (Ko…
Three short-period Earth-sized planets around M dwarfs discovered by TESS: TOI-5720b, TOI-6008b and TOI-6086b
K. Barkaoui, R. P. Schwarz, N. Narita +53
One of the main goals of the NASA's TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) mission is the discovery of Earth-like planets around nearby M-dwarf stars. Here, we present the di…
TOI-1634 b: an Ultra-Short Period Keystone Planet Sitting Inside the M Dwarf Radius Valley
R. Cloutier, D. Charbonneau, K. G. Stassun +63
Studies of close-in planets orbiting M dwarfs have suggested that the M dwarf radius valley may be well-explained by distinct formation timescales between enveloped terrestrials, a…
TOI-519 b: a short-period substellar object around an M dwarf validated using multicolour photometry and phase curve analysis
H. Parviainen, E. Palle, M. R. Zapatero-Osorio +43
Context: We report the discovery of TOI-519 b (TIC 218795833), a transiting substellar object (R = 1.07 RJup) orbiting a faint M dwarf (V = 17.35) on a 1.26 d orbit. Brown dwarfs a…
MOA-2007-BLG-197: Exploring the brown dwarf desert
C. Ranc, A. Cassan, M. D. Albrow +48
We present the analysis of MOA-2007-BLG-197Lb, the first brown dwarf companion to a Sun-like star detected through gravitational microlensing. The event was alerted and followed-up…
A Giant Planet beyond the Snow Line in Microlensing Event OGLE-2011-BLG-0251
N. Kains, R. Street, J. -Y. Choi +128
We present the analysis of the gravitational microlensing event OGLE-2011-BLG-0251. This anomalous event was observed by several survey and follow-up collaborations conducting micr…
MuSCAT2 multicolour validation of TESS candidates: an ultra-short-period substellar object around an M dwarf
H. Parviainen, E. Palle, M. R. Zapatero-Osorio +37
We report the discovery of TOI 263.01 (TIC 120916706), a transiting substellar object (R = 0.87 RJup) orbiting a faint M3.5~V dwarf (V=18.97) on a 0.56~d orbit. We set out to deter…
OGLE-2008-BLG-355Lb: A Massive Planet around A Late type Star
N. Koshimoto, A. Udalski, T. Sumi +32
We report the discovery of a massive planet OGLE-2008-BLG-355Lb. The light curve analysis indicates a planet:host mass ratio of q = 0.0118 +/- 0.0006 at a separation of 0.877 +/- 0…
Masses and Orbital Constraints for the OGLE-2006-BLG-109Lb,c Jupiter/Saturn Analog Planetary System
D. P. Bennett, S. H. Rhie, S. Nikolaev +70
We present a new analysis of the Jupiter+Saturn analog system, OGLE-2006-BLG-109Lb,c, which was the first double planet system discovered with the gravitational microlensing method…
Using Orbital Effects to Break the Close/wide Degeneracy in Binary-lens Microlensing Events
I. -G. Shin, T. Sumi, A. Udalski +37
Microlensing can provide an important tool to study binaries, especially those composed of faint or dark objects. However, accurate analysis of binary-lens light curves is often ha…
Kepler K2 Campaign 9: II. First space-based discovery of an exoplanet using microlensing
D. Specht, R. Poleski, M. T. Penny +83
We present K2-2016-BLG-0005Lb, a densely sampled, planetary binary caustic-crossing microlensing event found from a blind search of data gathered from Campaign 9 of the Kepler K2 m…
Mass measurement of a single unseen star and planetary detection efficiency for OGLE 2007-BLG-050
V. Batista, Subo Dong, A. Gould +93
We analyze OGLE-2007-BLG-050, a high magnification microlensing event (A ~ 432) whose peak occurred on 2 May, 2007, with pronounced finite-source and parallax effects. We compute p…
OGLE-2015-BLG-1609Lb: Sub-jovian planet orbiting a low-mass stellar or brown dwarf host
M. J. Mróz, R. Poleski, A. Udalski +70
We present a comprehensive analysis of a planetary microlensing event OGLE-2015-BLG-1609. The planetary anomaly was detected by two survey telescopes, OGLE and MOA. Each of these s…
The Exoplanet Mass-Ratio Function from the MOA-II Survey: Discovery of a Break and Likely Peak at a Neptune Mass
D. Suzuki, D. P. Bennett, T. Sumi +26
We report the results of the statistical analysis of planetary signals discovered in MOA-II microlensing survey alert system events from 2007 to 2012. We determine the survey sensi…
Early Results from the HUMDRUM Survey: A Small, Earth-mass Planet Orbits TOI-1450A
M. Brady, J. Bean, A. Seifahrt +23
M dwarf stars provide us with an ideal opportunity to study nearby small planets. The HUMDRUM (HUnting for M Dwarf Rocky planets Using MAROON-X) survey uses the MAROON-X spectrogra…
K2-260 b: a hot Jupiter transiting an F star, and K2-261 b: a warm Saturn around a bright G star
M. C. Johnson, F. Dai, A. B. Justesen +45
We present the discovery and confirmation of two new transiting giant planets from the Kepler extended mission K2. K2-260 b is a hot Jupiter transiting a F6V star in K2 Fi…
The First Eclipsing Binary Catalogue from the MOA-II database
M. C. A. Li, N. J. Rattenbury, A. Bond +25
We present the first catalogue of eclipsing binaries in two MOA fields towards the Galactic bulge, in which over 8,000 candidates, mostly contact and semi-detached binaries of peri…
Revisiting the microlensing event OGLE 2012-BLG-0026: A solar mass star with two cold giant planets
J. P. Beaulieu, D. P. Bennett, V. Batista +15
Two cold, gas giant planets orbiting a G-type main sequence star in the galactic disk have previously been discovered in the high magnification microlensing event OGLE-2012-BLG-002…
A hot sub-Neptune in the desert and a temperate super-Earth around faint M dwarfs: Color validation of TOI-4479b and TOI-2081b
E. Esparza-Borges, H. Parviainen, F. Murgas +45
We report the discovery and validation of two TESS exoplanets orbiting faint M dwarfs: TOI-4479b and TOI-2081b. We have jointly analyzed space (TESS mission) and ground based (MuSC…
Binary Source Microlensing Event OGLE-2016-BLG-0733: Interpretation of A Long-term Asymmetric Perturbation
Y. K. Jung, A. Udalski, J. C. Yee +50
In the process of analyzing an observed light curve, one often confronts various scenarios that can mimic the planetary signals causing difficulties in the accurate interpretation…
A resonant sextuplet of sub-Neptunes transiting the bright star HD 110067
R. Luque, H. P. Osborn, A. Leleu +149
Planets with radii between that of the Earth and Neptune (hereafter referred to as sub-Neptunes) are found in close-in orbits around more than half of all Sun-like stars. Yet, thei…
The First Planetary Microlensing Event with Two Microlensed Source Stars
D. P. Bennett, A. Udalski, C. Han +64
We present the analysis of microlensing event MOA-2010-BLG-117, and show that the light curve can only be explained by the gravitational lensing of a binary source star system by a…
A companion on the planet/brown dwarf mass boundary on a wide orbit discovered by gravitational microlensing
R. Poleski, A. Udalski, I. A. Bond +40
We present the discovery of a substellar companion to the primary host lens in the microlensing event MOA-2012-BLG-006. The companion-to-host mass ratio is 0.016, corresponding to…
Lower-than-expected flare temperatures for TRAPPIST-1
A. J. Maas, E. Ilin, M. Oshagh +12
Although high energetic radiation from flares is a potential threat to exoplanet atmospheres and may lead to surface sterilization, it might also provide the extra energy for low-m…
An Isolated Microlens Observed from K2, Spitzer and Earth
Wei Zhu, A. Udalski, C. Huang +50
We present the result of microlensing event MOA-2016-BLG-290, which received observations from the two-wheel Kepler (K2), Spitzer, as well as ground-based observatories. A joint an…
ExoClock Project IV: A homogeneous catalogue of 620 updated exoplanet ephemerides
A. Kokori, A. Tsiaras, G. Pantelidou +323
The ExoClock project is an open platform aiming to monitor exoplanets by integrating observations from space and ground based telescopes. This study presents an updated catalogue o…
The Discovery and Follow-up of Four Transiting Short-period Sub-Neptunes Orbiting M dwarfs
Y. Hori, A. Fukui, T. Hirano +100
Sub-Neptunes with are intermediate in size between rocky planets and Neptune-sized planets. The orbital properties and bulk compositions of transiting sub-Neptunes pr…
Two temperate super-Earths transiting a nearby late-type M dwarf
L. Delrez, C. A. Murray, F. J. Pozuelos +82
In the age of JWST, temperate terrestrial exoplanets transiting nearby late-type M dwarfs provide unique opportunities for characterising their atmospheres, as well as searching fo…
Determining the Physical Lens Parameters of the Binary Gravitational Microlensing Event MOA-2009-BLG-016
K. -H. Hwang, C. Han, I. A. Bond +39
We report the result of the analysis of the light curve of the microlensing event MOA-2009-BLG-016. The light curve is characterized by a short-duration anomaly near the peak and a…
A joint effort to discover and characterize two resonant mini Neptunes around TOI-1803 with TESS, HARPS-N and CHEOPS
T. Zingales, L. Malavolta, L. Borsato +130
We present the discovery of two mini Neptunes near a 2:1 orbital resonance configuration orbiting the K0 star TOI-1803. We describe their orbital architecture in detail and suggest…
OGLE-2011-BLG-0265Lb: a Jovian Microlensing Planet Orbiting an M Dwarf
J. Skowron, I. -G. Shin, A. Udalski +121
We report the discovery of a Jupiter-mass planet orbiting an M-dwarf star that gave rise to the microlensing event OGLE-2011-BLG-0265. Such a system is very rare among known planet…
Optical and Near-Infrared Polarimetry of Highly Reddened Type Ia Supernova 2014J: Peculiar Properties of Dust in M82
K. S. Kawabata, H. Akitaya, M. Yamanaka +46
We presented optical and near-infrared multi-band linear polarimetry of the highly reddened Type Ia SN~2014J appeared in M82. SN~2014J exhibits large polarization at shorter wavele…
Unbound or Distant Planetary Mass Population Detected by Gravitational Microlensing
T. Sumi, K. Kamiya, A. Udalski +36
Since 1995, more than 500 exoplanets have been detected using different techniques, of which 11 were detected with gravitational microlensing. Most of these are gravitationally bou…
Simultaneous photometric and CARMENES spectroscopic monitoring of fast-rotating M dwarf GJ 3270. Discovery of a post-flare corotating feature
E. N. Johnson, S. Czesla, B. Fuhrmeister +33
Context: Active M dwarfs frequently exhibit large flares, which can pose an existential threat to the habitability of any planet in orbit in addition to making said planets more di…
A Likely Detection of a Two-Planet System in a Low Magnification Microlensing Event
D. Suzuki, D. P. Bennett, A. Udalski +37
We report on the analysis of a microlensing event OGLE-2014-BLG-1722 that showed two distinct short term anomalies. The best fit model to the observed light curves shows that the t…
The MOPYS project: A survey of 70 planets in search of extended He I and H atmospheres. No evidence of enhanced evaporation in young planets
J. Orell-Miquel, F. Murgas, E. Pallé +30
During the first Gyr of their life, exoplanet atmospheres suffer from different atmospheric escape phenomena that can strongly affect the shape and morphology of the exoplanet itse…
An enhanced slope in the transmission spectrum of the hot Jupiter WASP-104b
G. Chen, E. Palle, H. Parviainen +25
We present the optical transmission spectrum of the hot Jupiter WASP-104b based on one transit observed by the blue and red channels of the DBSP spectrograph at the Palomar 200-inc…
Is the orbit of the exoplanet WASP-43b really decaying? TESS and MuSCAT2 observations confirm no detection
Z. Garai, T. Pribulla, H. Parviainen +24
Up to now, WASP-12b is the only hot Jupiter confirmed to have a decaying orbit. The case of WASP-43b is still under debate. Recent studies preferred or ruled out the orbital decay…
Letter of Intent for KASKA: High Accuracy Neutrino Oscillation Measurements with anti-nu_es from Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station
M. Aoki, K. Akiyama, Y. Fukuda +34
One of the current most-demanded experiments in neutrino physics is to measure the last mixing angle theta_13. KASKA is an experiment to detect new type of reactor neutrino oscilla…
Sibling Sub-Neptunes Around Sibling M Dwarfs: TOI-521 and TOI-912
G. Lacedelli, E. Pallé, R. Luque +47
Sub-Neptunes are absent in the Solar System, yet they are commonly found in our Galaxy. They challenge the internal structure models and prompt investigation on their formation, ev…
Obliquity measurement and atmospheric characterization of the WASP-74 planetary system
R. Luque, N. Casasayas-Barris, H. Parviainen +27
We present new transit observations of the hot Jupiter WASP-74 b ( 1860 K) using the high-resolution spectrograph HARPS-N and the multi-colour simultaneous imag…
An ultra-short-period transiting super-Earth orbiting the M3 dwarf TOI-1685
P. Bluhm, E. Palle, K. Molaverdikhani +51
Dynamical histories of planetary systems, as well as atmospheric evolution of highly irradiated planets, can be studied by characterizing the ultra-short-period planet population,…
TOI-1743 b, TOI-5799 b, TOI-5799 c and TOI-6223 b: TESS discovery and validation of four super-Earth to Neptune-sized planets around M dwarfs
S. Yalçınkaya, K. Barkaoui, Ã. BaÅtürk +62
We present the discovery by the TESS mission of one transiting Neptune-sized planet, TOI-6223 b and two transiting super-Earths, TOI-1743 b and TOI-5799 b. We validate these planet…
TOI-1416: A system with a super-Earth planet with a 1.07d period
H. J. Deeg, I. Y. Georgieva, G. Nowak +49
TOI 1416 (BD+42 2504, HIP 70705) is a V=10 late G or early K-type dwarf star with transits detected by TESS. Radial velocities verify the presence of the transiting planet TOI-1416…
OGLE-2013-BLG-0102LA,B: Microlensing binary with components at star/brown-dwarf and brown-dwarf/planet boundaries
Y. K. Jung, A. Udalski, T. Sumi +51
We present the analysis of the gravitational microlensing event OGLE-2013-BLG-0102. The light curve of the event is characterized by a strong short-term anomaly superposed on a smo…
Radial velocity confirmation of K2-100b: a young, highly irradiated, and low density transiting hot Neptune
O. Barragán, S. Aigrain, D. Kubyshkina +37
We present a detailed analysis of HARPS-N radial velocity observations of K2-100, a young and active star in the Praesepe cluster, which hosts a transiting planet with a period of…
A Terrestrial Planet in a ~1 AU Orbit Around One Member of a ~15 AU Binary
A. Gould, A. Udalski, I. -G. Shin +61
We detect a cold, terrestrial planet in a binary-star system using gravitational microlensing. The planet has low mass (2 Earth masses) and lies projected at ~ 0.8 a…
The GAPS programme at TNG: LXXVI. TOI-1533: a compact system hosting a super-Neptune-mass pair with disparate radii
G. Mantovan, V. Nascimbeni, S. Desidera +49
The present-day architecture of planetary systems contains information about their formation and migration histories. The origin of hot Jupiters (HJs, P 10 d, $R_{\rm p}…
Validation of up to seven TESS planet candidates through multi-colour transit photometry using MuSCAT2 data
A. Peláez-Torres, E. Esparza-Borges, E. Pallé +62
The TESS mission searches for transiting exoplanets by monitoring the brightness of hundreds of thousands of stars across the entire sky. M-type planet hosts are ideal targets for…
TESS discovery of a super-Earth orbiting the M dwarf star TOI-1680
M. Ghachoui, A. Soubkiou, R. D. Wells +52
We report the discovery by the TESS mission of a super-Earth on a 4.8-d orbit around an inactive M4.5 dwarf (TOI-1680) validated by ground-based facilities. The host star is locate…
First simultaneous microlensing observations by two space telescopes: & reveal a brown dwarf in event OGLE-2015-BLG-1319
Y. Shvartzvald, Z. Li, A. Udalski +90
Simultaneous observations of microlensing events from multiple locations allow for the breaking of degeneracies between the physical properties of the lensing system, specifically…
Two sub-Neptunes around the M dwarf TOI-1470
E. González-Ãlvarez, M. R. Zapatero Osorio, J. A. Caballero +50
Aims. A transiting planet candidate with a sub-Neptune radius orbiting the nearby ( = 51.90.07 pc) M1.5 V star TOI-1470 with a period of 2.5 d was announced by the NA…
TOI-1801 b: A temperate mini-Neptune around a young M0.5 dwarf
M. MallorquÃn, E. Goffo, E. Pallé +79
We report the discovery, mass, and radius determination of TOI-1801 b, a temperate mini-Neptune around a young M dwarf. TOI-1801 b was observed in TESS sectors 22 and 49, and the a…
MOA-2010-BLG-353Lb A Possible Saturn Revealed
N. J. Rattenbury, D. P. Bennett, T. Sumi +30
We report the discovery of a possible planet in microlensing event MOA-2010-BLG-353. This event was only recognised as having a planetary signal after the microlensing event had fi…
Hidden Gems in TESS: sherlock finds two new rocky planets around nearby M dwarfs
M. Timmermans, M. Dévora-Pajares, F. J. Pozuelos +25
The Hidden Gems project searches the TESS data for additional planets transiting low-mass stars in confirmed systems. Our goal is to identify planet candidates that are below the d…
Candidate Gravitational Microlensing Events for Future Direct Lens Imaging
C. B. Henderson, H. Park, T. Sumi +76
The mass of the lenses giving rise to Galactic microlensing events can be constrained by measuring the relative lens-source proper motion and lens flux. The flux of the lens can be…
MOA-2011-BLG-293Lb: First Microlensing Planet possibly in the Habitable Zone
V. Batista, J. -P. Beaulieu, A. Gould +6
We used Keck adaptive optics observations to identify the first planet discovered by microlensing to lie in or near the habitable zone, i.e., at projected separation $r_\perp=1.1\p…
Lens parameters for Gaia18cbf -- a long gravitational microlensing event in the Galactic plane
Katarzyna KruszyÅska, Å. Wyrzykowski, K. A. Rybicki +29
Context: The timescale of a microlensing event scales as a square root of a lens mass. Therefore, long-lasting events are important candidates for massive lenses, including black h…
A nearby transiting rocky exoplanet that is suitable for atmospheric investigation
T. Trifonov, J. A. Caballero, J. C. Morales +66
Spectroscopy of transiting exoplanets can be used to investigate their atmospheric properties and habitability. Combining radial velocity (RV) and transit data provides additional…
Constraining Lens Masses in Moderately to Highly Magnified Microlensing Events from Gaia
U. Pylypenko, Å. Wyrzykowski, P. J. MikoÅajczyk +57
Microlensing events provide a unique way to detect and measure the masses of isolated, non-luminous objects, particularly dark stellar remnants. Under certain conditions, it is pos…
A New Type of Ambiguity in the Planet and Binary Interpretations of Central Perturbations of High-Magnification Gravitational Microlensing Events
J. -Y. Choi, I. -G. Shin, C. Han +118
High-magnification microlensing events provide an important channel to detect planets. Perturbations near the peak of a high-magnification event can be produced either by a planet…
OGLE-2017-BLG-0039: Microlensing Event with Light from the Lens Identified from Mass Measurement
C. Han, Y. K. Jung, A. Udalski +58
We present the analysis of the caustic-crossing binary microlensing event OGLE-2017-BLG-0039. Thanks to the very long duration of the event, with an event time scale $t_{\rm E}\sim…