The Lowest Mass Ratio Planetary Microlens: OGLE 2016-BLG-1195Lb

Abstract

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 small deviation from a microlensing single lens profile from an examination of the survey data soon after the planetary signal. The duration of the planetary signal is $\sim 2.5$hours. The measured ratio of the planet mass to its host star is $q=4.2\pm 0.7\times 10^{-5}$. We further estimate that the lens system is likely to comprise a cold $\sim$3 Earth mass planet in a $\sim$2 AU wide orbit around a 0.2 Solar mass star at an overall distance of 7.1 kpc.

8 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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