KMT-2018-BLG-1988Lb: microlensing super-Earth orbiting a low-mass disk dwarf

Abstract

We reexamine high-magnification microlensing events in the previous data collected by the KMTNet survey with the aim of finding planetary signals that were not noticed before. In this work, we report the planetary system KMT-2018-BLG-1988L that was found from this investigation. The planetary signal appears as a deviation with $\lesssim 0.2$~mag from a single-lens light curve and lasted for about 6 hours. The deviation exhibits a pattern of a dip surrounded by weak bumps on both sides of the dip. The analysis of the lensing light curve indicates that the signal is produced by a low mass-ratio ($q\sim 4\times 10^{-5}$) planetary companion located near the Einstein ring of the host star. The mass of the planet, $M_{\mathrm{planet}}=6.8_{-3.5}^{+4.7}{M}_{\oplus }$ and $5.6_{-2.8}^{+3.8}{M}_{\oplus }$ for the two possible solutions, estimated from the Bayesian analysis indicates that the planet is in the regime of a super-Earth. The host of the planet is a disk star with a mass of $M_{\mathrm{host}}=0.47_{-0.25}^{+0.33}{M}_{\odot }$ and a distance of $D_{\mathrm{L}}=4.2_{-.14}^{+1.8}$~kpc. KMT-2018-BLG-1988Lb is the seventeenth microlensing planet with a mass below the upper limit of a super-Earth. The fact that 14 out of 17 microlensing planets with masses $\lesssim 10M_{\oplus }$ were detected during the last 5 years since the full operation of the KMTNet survey indicates that the KMTNet database is an important reservoir of very low-mass planets.

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