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astro-ph.EP2018★ 23 cited

MOA-2015-BLG-337: A Planetary System with a Low-mass Brown Dwarf/Planetary Boundary Host, or a Brown Dwarf Binary

S. Miyazaki, T. Sumi, D. P. Bennett +59

We report the discovery and the analysis of the short timescale binary-lens microlensing event, MOA-2015-BLG-337. The lens system could be a planetary system with a very low mass h…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 7 cited

OGLE-2017-BLG-0482Lb: A Microlensing Super-Earth Orbiting a Low-mass Host Star

C. Han, Y. Hirao, A. Udalski +62

We report the discovery of a planetary system in which a super-earth orbits a late M-dwarf host. The planetary system was found from the analysis of the microlensing event OGLE-201…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 20 cited

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…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 10 cited

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…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 21 cited

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…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 7 cited

MOA-2012-BLG-505Lb: A super-Earth mass planet probably in the Galactic bulge

Masayuki Nagakane, Takahiro Sumi, Naoki Koshimoto +27

We report the discovery of a super-Earth mass planet in the microlensing event MOA-2012-BLG-505. This event has the second shortest event timescale of days whe…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 84 cited

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…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 17 cited

Discovery of a Gas giant Planet in Microlensing Event OGLE-2014-BLG-1760

A. Bhattacharya, D. P. Bennett, I. A. Bond +41

We present the analysis of the planetary microlensing event OGLE-2014-BLG-1760, which shows a strong light curve signal due to the presence of a Jupiter mass-ratio planet. One unus…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 20 cited

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…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 85 cited

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…

astro-ph.EP2013★ 22 cited

MOA-2008-BLG-379Lb: A Massive Planet from a High Magnification Event with a Faint Source

D. Suzuki, A. Udalski, T. Sumi +31

We report analysis of high microlensing event MOA-2008-BLG-379, which has a strong microlensing anomaly at its peak, due to a massive planet with a mass ratio of q = 6.9 x 10^{-3}.…

astro-ph.EP2013★ 37 cited

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…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 46 cited

MOA-2010-BLG-073L: An M-Dwarf with a Substellar Companion at the Planet/Brown Dwarf Boundary

R. A. Street, J. -Y. Choi, Y. Tsapras +129

We present an analysis of the anomalous microlensing event, MOA-2010-BLG-073, announced by the Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics survey on 2010-03-18. This event was remark…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 19 cited

A possible binary system of a stellar remnant in the high magnification gravitational microlensing event OGLE-2007-BLG-514

N. Miyake, A. Udalski, T. Sumi +78

We report the extremely high magnification (A > 1000) binary microlensing event OGLE-2007-BLG-514. We obtained good coverage around the double peak structure in the light curve via…

astro-ph.EP2011★ 522 cited

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…

astro-ph.EP2011★ 183 cited

MOA-2009-BLG-387Lb: A massive planet orbiting an M dwarf

Virginie Batista, A. Gould, S. Dieters +25

We report the discovery of a planet with a high planet-to-star mass ratio in the microlensing event MOA-2009-BLG-387, which exhibited pronounced deviations over a 12-day interval,…

astro-ph.EP2010★ 100 cited

Measurements of Transit Timing Variations for WASP-5b

Akihiko Fukui, Norio Narita, Paul J. Tristram +34

We have observed 7 new transits of the `hot Jupiter' WASP-5b using a 61 cm telescope located in New Zealand, in order to search for transit timing variations (TTVs) which can be in…

astro-ph.EP2010★ 217 cited

A Cold Neptune-Mass Planet OGLE-2007-BLG-368Lb: Cold Neptunes Are Common

T. Sumi, D. P. Bennett, I. A. Bond +104

We present the discovery of a Neptune-mass planet OGLE-2007-BLG-368Lb with a planet-star mass ratio of q=[9.5 +/- 2.1] x 10^{-5} via gravitational microlensing. The planetary devia…

astro-ph.EP2010★ 349 cited

Frequency of Solar-Like Systems and of Ice and Gas Giants Beyond the Snow Line from High-Magnification Microlensing Events in 2005-2008

A. Gould, Subo Dong, B. S. Gaudi +14

We present the first measurement of planet frequency beyond the "snow line" for planet/star mass-ratios[-4.5<log q<-2]: d^2 N/dlog q/dlog s=(0.36+-0.15)/dex^2 at mean mass ratio q=…

astro-ph.EP2009★ 4 cited

Interpretation of Strong Short-Term Central Perturbations in the Light Curves of Moderate-Magnification Microlensing Events

C. Han, K. -H. Hwang, D. Kim +87

To improve the planet detection efficiency, current planetary microlensing experiments are focused on high-magnification events searching for planetary signals near the peak of len…

astro-ph.EP2009★ 31 cited

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…