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Testing KMTNet--PRIME Optical--Near-Infrared Source-Color Constraints in KMT-2024-BLG-0211 and KMT-2024-BLG-1522
Kansuke Nunota, Jennifer C. Yee, Takahiro Sumi +37
We present analyses of two 2024 microlensing events, KMT-2024-BLG-0211 and KMT-2024-BLG-1522, jointly observed by KMTNet in the optical and PRIME in the near-infrared. For KMT-2024…
KMT-2025-BLG-0975Lb and KMT-2025-BLG-1160Lb: Two Uranus-Mass Planets Beyond the Snow Line Discovered by Microlensing
Cheongho Han, Chung-Uk Lee, Andrzej Udalski +27
We present the analysis of two planetary microlensing events, KMT-2025-BLG-0975 and KMT-2025-BLG-1160, discovered during the 2025 Galactic bulge microlensing season through high-ca…
Four Cold Giant Planets Discovered by High-Cadence Microlensing Surveys
Cheongho Han, Chung-Uk Lee, Andrzej Udalski +52
We report the discovery of four cold giant planets identified through the analysis of microlensing events detected by high-cadence surveys: OGLE-2016-BLG-0261, KMT-2025-BLG-0026, K…
KMT-2025-BLG-2093: Free-Floating Planet Candidate Near the Shore of the Einstein Desert
Yoon-Hyun Ryu, Andrew Gould, Kyu-Ha Hwang +16
We analyze KMT-2025-BLG-2093, with angular Einstein radius , which makes it the second isolated microlens that lies in the ``Einstein Desert'' ($9…
Measuring Asteroid Rotation Periods Using the KMTNet Bulge Survey Data
Haitao Huang, Hongjing Yang, Chung-Uk Lee +6
Since 2015, the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet) has conducted high-cadence, near-continuous observations of the Galactic bulge for nearly nine months each year from t…
Four-Body Gravitational Microlensing Events Involving Both a Binary Lens and a Binary Source
Cheongho Han, Chung-Uk Lee, Andrzej Udalski +31
We present detailed analyses of three anomalous microlensing events--KMT-2021-BLG-0209, KMT-2021-BLG-0901, and OGLE-2025-BLG-0356--identified from a systematic re-examination of KM…
Mass Production of 2023 KMTNet Microlensing Planets. III: Three Planets from the Subprime Field
Hongyu Li, Zhixing Li, Weicheng Zang +56
To complete the analysis of the 2023 KMTNet subprime-field microlensing planetary events identified by its AlertFinder system, we present the analysis of six events, KMT-2023-BLG-(…
Systematic KMTNet Planetary Anomaly Search. XIII. Complete Sample of 2021 Prime Field Planets
In-Gu Shin, Jennifer C. Yee, Weicheng Zang +39
The Systematic KMTNet Planetary Anomaly Search series was conducted using the KMTNet data archived from to . From this first phase of the series, we reported a total o…
KMTNet Synoptic Survey of Southern Sky III: The First Data Release
Seo-Won Chang, Myungshin Im, Mankeun Jeong +13
We present the first public data release (DR1) of the KMTNet Synoptic Survey of Southern Sky (KS4). This deep, wide-field imaging survey covers a southern footprint of -85$^{\circ}…
KMTNet Synoptic Survey of Southern Sky II: Data Reduction and Real-Time Transient Detection Pipeline
Mankeun Jeong, Myungshin Im, Joonho Kim +9
We present a comprehensive pipeline developed for the image processing of the KMTNet Synoptic Survey of the Southern Sky (KS4) Data Release 1. This pipeline encompasses several key…
Mass Production of 2023 KMTNet Microlensing Planets. II: Two Planets and A Brown Dwarf
Zhixing Li, Hongyu Li, Weicheng Zang +63
To expand the homogeneous microlensing planetary sample of the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet), we investigate six planetary candidates identified by the AnomalyFinde…
Mass Production of 2023 KMTNet Microlensing Planets I: Low Mass Ratio
Yoon-Hyun Ryu, Andrzej Udalski, Hongjing Yang +34
We initiate the systematic search for planets in the 2023 data of the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet), focusing on those planets found by the KMTNet AnomalyFinder wit…
Two Low Mass-Ratio Microlensing Planets and Two Types of Central-Resonant Degeneracy
Yuchen Tang, Weicheng Zang, Yoon-Hyun Ryu +39
We present observations and analysis of two low planet/host mass-ratio () microlensing planets discovered in high-magnification events. KMT-2025-BLG-0811Lb has $q \sim 4.5 \time…
KMT-2025-BLG-1314 and KMT-2025-BLG-1392: two microlensing planetary/brown-dwarf candidates analyzed with differentiable code
Haibin Ren, Weicheng Zang, Wei Zhu +20
Analysis of binary-lens microlensing events typically requires intensive computation because of the multimodal and complex posterior distributions. With the recent development of t…
KMT-2024-BLG-3237: Another Free-Floating Planet Candidate with Angular Einstein Radius Measurement
Tanagodchaporn Inyanya, Youn Kil Jung, Hongjing Yang +13
Planet formation theories suggest the presence of free-floating planets (FFPs) that are ejected from their formation sites. While these planets emit very little light, they can be…
Four Cold Super-Jupiters Revealed by Extended and Complex Microlensing Signals
Cheongho Han, Chung-Uk Lee, Michael D. Albrow +18
We present the analysis of four microlensing events, KMT-2020-BLG-0202, KMT-2022-BLG-1551, KMT-2023-BLG-0466, and KMT-2025-BLG-0121, which exhibit extended and complex anomalies in…
KMT-2025-BLG-1616Lb: First Microlensing Bound Planet From DREAMS
Hongjing Yang, Weicheng Zang, Yoon-Hyun Ryu +60
We present observations and analysis of the bound planetary microlensing event KMT-2025-BLG-1616. The planetary signal was captured by the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMT…
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…
RR Lyrae stars with variable mean magnitudes
Gergely Hajdu, Johanna Jurcsik, Márcio Catelan +6
Context. A number of RR Lyrae stars show variable mean magnitudes in the OGLE survey light curves of the Galactic bulge. Hitherto this phenomenon was not studied, as it was general…
Four Giant Planets from 2024 KMTNet Microlensing Campaign
Cheongho Han, Andrzej Udalski, Ian A. Bond +56
In this work, we present analyses of four newly discovered planetary microlensing events from the 2024 KMTNet survey season: KMT-2024-BLG-0176, KMT-2024-BLG-0349, KMT-2024-BLG-1870…
Six binary brown dwarf candidates identified by microlensing
Cheongho Han, Chung-Uk Lee, Ian A. Bond +57
In this study, we analyze microlensing events from the 2023 and 2024 observing seasons to identify cases likely caused by binary systems composed of BDs. By applying criteria that…
A Comprehensive Analysis of Three Microlensing Planet Candidates with the Planet/Binary Degeneracy
Jiyuan Zhang, Weicheng Zang, Yoon-Hyun Ryu +65
We present observations and analyses of three high-magnification microlensing events: KMT-2022-BLG-0954, KMT-2024-BLG-0697, and MOA-2024-BLG-018. All three exhibit the "Planet/Bina…
Three binary-source binary-lens microlensing events from the 2024 microlensing campaign
Cheongho Han, Chung-Uk Lee, Andrzej Udalski +27
We investigated microlensing events detected by the OGLE and KMTNet surveys during the 2024 observing season, focusing on those that exhibit very complex anomaly features. Through…
Six microlensing planets detected via sub-day signals during the 2023 -- 2024 season
Cheongho Han, Chung-Uk Lee, Andrzej Udalski +58
We present analyses of six microlensing events: KMT-2023-BLG-0548, KMT-2023-BLG-0830, KMT-2023-BLG-0949, KMT-2024-BLG-1281, KMT-2024-BLG-2059, and KMT-2024-BLG-2242. These were ide…