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astro-ph.EP2025★ 6 cited

A free-floating-planet microlensing event caused by a Saturn-mass object

Subo Dong, Zexuan Wu, Yoon-Hyun Ryu +39

A population of free-floating planets is known from gravitational microlensing surveys. None have a directly measured mass, owing to a degeneracy with the distance, but the populat…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 7 cited

Systematic KMTNet Planetary Anomaly Search. XII. Complete Sample of 2017 Subprime Field Planets

Yuqian Gui, Weicheng Zang, Ruocheng Zhai +39

We report the analysis of four unambiguous planets and one possible planet from the subprime fields () of the 2017 Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTN…

astro-ph.EP2024

SPECtrophotometer for TRansmission spectroscopy of exoplanets (SPECTR)

Yeon-Ho Choi, Myeong-Gu Park, Kang-Min Kim +9

The SPECtrophotometer for TRansmission spectroscopy of exoplanets (SPECTR) is a new low-resolution optical (3800 Å - 6850 Å) spectrophotometer installed at the Bohyunsan Optical As…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 47 cited

Systematic Reanalysis of KMTNet microlensing events, Paper I: Updates of the Photometry Pipeline and a New Planet Candidate

Hongjing Yang, Jennifer C. Yee, Kyu-Ha Hwang +52

In this work, we update and develop algorithms for KMTNet tender-love care (TLC) photometry in order to create an new, mostly automated, TLC pipeline. We then start a project to sy…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 17 cited

Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk) IX: High-resolution ALMA Observations of the Class 0 Protostar R CrA IRS5N and its surrounding

Rajeeb Sharma, Jes K. Jørgensen, Sacha Gavino +19

We present high-resolution, high-sensitivity observations of the Class 0 protostar RCrA IRS5N as part of the Atacama Large Milimeter/submilimeter Array (ALMA) large program Early P…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 19 cited

Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk) V: Possible Annular Substructure in a Circumstellar Disk in the Ced110 IRS4 System

Jinshi Sai, Hsi-Wei Yen, Nagayoshi Ohashi +25

We have observed the Class 0/I protostellar system Ced110 IRS4 at an angular resolution of (10 au) as a part of the ALMA large program; Early Planet Formation in the…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 57 cited

Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk). II. Limited Dust Settling and Prominent Snow Surfaces in the Edge-on Class I Disk IRAS 04302+2247

Zhe-Yu Daniel Lin, Zhi-Yun Li, John J. Tobin +26

While dust disks around optically visible, Class II protostars are found to be vertically thin, when and how dust settles to the midplane are unclear. As part of the Atacama Large…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 39 cited

Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk). IV. The Ringed and Warped Structure of the Disk around the Class I Protostar L1489 IRS

Yoshihide Yamato, Yuri Aikawa, Nagayoshi Ohashi +28

Constraining the physical and chemical structure of young embedded disks is crucial to understanding the earliest stages of planet formation. As part of the Early Planet Formation…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 40 cited

Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk) III: A first high-resolution view of sub-mm continuum and molecular line emission toward the Class 0 protostar L1527 IRS

Merel L. R. van 't Hoff, John J. Tobin, Zhi-Yun Li +25

Studying the physical and chemical conditions of young embedded disks is crucial to constrain the initial conditions for planet formation. Here, we present Atacama Large Millimeter…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 159 cited

Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk). I. Overview of the Program and First Results

Nagayoshi Ohashi, John J. Tobin, Jes K. Jørgensen +34

We present an overview of the Large Program, ``Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk)'', conducted with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). The ubiqu…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 5 cited

KMT-2022-BLG-2397: Brown Dwarf at the Upper Shore of the Einstein Desert

Andrew Gould, Yoon-Hyun Ryu, Jennifer C. Yee +17

We measure the Einstein radius of the single-lens microlensing event KMT-2022-BLG-2397 to be theta_E=24.8 +- 3.6 uas, placing it at the upper shore of the Einstein Desert, 9 < thet…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 1 cited

KMT-2021-BLG-1150Lb: Microlensing planet detected through a densely covered planetary-caustic signal

Cheongho Han, Youn Kil Jung, Ian A. Bond +49

Recently, there have been reports of various types of degeneracies in the interpretation of planetary signals induced by planetary caustics. In this work, we check whether such deg…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 8 cited

KMT-2021-BLG-2010Lb, KMT-2022-BLG-0371Lb, and KMT-2022-BLG-1013Lb: Three microlensing planets detected via partially covered signals

Cheongho Han, Chung-Uk Lee, Weicheng Zang +25

We inspect 4 microlensing events KMT-2021-BLG-1968, KMT-2021-BLG-2010, KMT-2022-BLG-0371, and KMT-2022-BLG-1013, for which the light curves exhibit partially covered short-term cen…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 4 cited

MOA-2022-BLG-249Lb: Nearby microlensing super-Earth planet detected from high-cadence surveys

Cheongho Han, Andrew Gould, Youn Kil Jung +51

We investigate the data collected by the high-cadence microlensing surveys during the 2022 season in search for planetary signals appearing in the light curves of microlensing even…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 25 cited

Systematic KMTNet Planetary Anomaly Search. VIII. Complete Sample of 2019 Subprime Field Planets

Youn Kil Jung, Weicheng Zang, Hanyue Wang +41

We complete the publication of all microlensing planets (and ``possible planets'') identified by the uniform approach of the KMT AnomalyFinder system in the 21 KMT subprime fields…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 11 cited

KMT-2022-BLG-0440Lb: A New Microlensing Planet with the Central-Resonant Caustic Degeneracy Broken

Jiyuan Zhang, Weicheng Zang, Youn Kil Jung +57

We present the observations and analysis of a high-magnification microlensing planetary event, KMT-2022-BLG-0440, for which the weak and short-lived planetary signal was covered by…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 9 cited

Mass Production of 2021 KMTNet Microlensing Planets III: Analysis of Three Giant Planets

In-Gu Shin, Jennifer C. Yee, Andrew Gould +45

We present the analysis of three more planets from the KMTNet 2021 microlensing season. KMT-2021-BLG-0119Lb is a planet orbiting an early M-dwarf or a K-dwar…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 31 cited

Systematic KMTNet Planetary Anomaly Search, Paper VII: Complete Sample of Planets from the First Four-Year Survey

Weicheng Zang, Youn Kil Jung, Hongjing Yang +36

We present the analysis of seven microlensing planetary events with planet/host mass ratios : KMT-2017-BLG-1194, KMT-2017-BLG-0428, KMT-2019-BLG-1806, KMT-2017-BLG-100…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 3 cited

MOA-2020-BLG-208Lb: Cool Sub-Saturn Planet Within Predicted Desert

Greg Olmschenk, David P. Bennett, Ian A. Bond +74

We analyze the MOA-2020-BLG-208 gravitational microlensing event and present the discovery and characterization of a new planet, MOA-2020-BLG-208Lb, with an estimated sub-Saturn ma…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 25 cited

Modeling H and He 10830 transmission spectrum of WASP-52b

Dongdong Yan, Kwang-il Seon, Jianheng Guo +2

Escaping atmosphere has been detected by the excess absorption of Ly, H and He triplet (10830) lines. Simultaneously modeling the absorption of the H and He 10830 li…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 4 cited

Mass Production of 2021 KMTNet Microlensing Planets II

Yoon-Hyun Ryu, In-Gu Shin, Hongjing Yang +18

We continue our program of publishing all planets (and possible planets) found by eye in 2021 Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet) online data. We present 4 planets, (KMT-…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 38 cited

Systematic KMTNet Planetary Anomaly Search. VI. Complete Sample of 2018 Sub-Prime-Field Planets

Youn Kil Jung, Weicheng Zang, Cheongho Han +29

We complete the analysis of all 2018 sub-prime-field microlensing planets identified by the KMTNet AnomalyFinder. Among the 9 previously unpublished events with clear planetary sol…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 22 cited

KMT-2021-BLG-0171Lb and KMT-2021-BLG-1689Lb: Two Microlensing Planets in the KMTNet High-cadence Fields with Followup Observations

Hongjing Yang, Weicheng Zang, Andrew Gould +56

Follow-up observations of high-magnification gravitational microlensing events can fully exploit their intrinsic sensitivity to detect extrasolar planets, especially those with sma…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 12 cited

Four sub-Jovian-mass planets detected by high-cadence microlensing surveys

Cheongho Han, Doeon Kim, Andrew Gould +57

With the aim of finding short-term planetary signals, we investigated the data collected from the high-cadence microlensing surveys. From this investigation, we found four planetar…