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Two new free-floating or wide-orbit planets from microlensing
P. Mroz, A. Udalski, D. P. Bennett +57
Planet formation theories predict the existence of free-floating planets that have been ejected from their parent systems. Although they emit little or no light, they can be detect…
Kmt-2016-blg-1397b: Kmtnet-only discovery of a microlens giant planet
Weicheng Zang, Kyu-Ha Hwang, Hyoun-Woo Kim +20
We report the discovery of a giant planet in the KMT-2016-BLG-1397 microlensing event, which was found by The Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet) alone. The time scale of…
New Photometric Pipeline to Explore Temporal and Spatial Variability with KMTNet DEEP-South Observations
Seo-Won Chang, Yong-Ik Byun, Min-Su Shin +6
The DEEP-South photometric census of small Solar System bodies produces massive time-series data of variable, transient or moving objects as a by-product. To fully investigate unex…
KMTNet Nearby Galaxy Survey I. : Optimal strategy for low surface brightness imaging with KMTNet
Woowon Byun, Yun-Kyeong Sheen, Luis C. Ho +8
In hierarchical galaxy formation models, galaxies evolve through mergers and accretions. Tidally-disrupted debris from these processes can remain as diffuse, faint structures, whic…
OGLE-2015-BLG-1670Lb: A Cold Neptune beyond the Snow Line in the Provisional WFIRST Microlensing Survey Field
Clément Ranc, David P. Bennett, Yuki Hirao +56
We present the analysis of the microlensing event OGLE-2015-BLG-1670, detected in a high-extinction field, very close to the Galactic plane. Due to the dust extinction along the li…
MOA-2016-BLG-319Lb: Microlensing Planet Subject to Rare Minor-Image Perturbation Degeneracy in Determining Planet Parameter
Cheongho Han, Ian A. Bond, Andrew Gould +42
We present the analysis of the planetary microlensing event MOA-2016-BLG-319. The event light curve is characterized by a brief ( days) anomaly near the peak produced by mi…
KMT-2017-BLG-0165Lb: A Super-Neptune mass planet Orbiting a Sun-like Host Star
Youn Kil Jung, Andrew Gould, Weicheng Zang +22
We report the discovery of a low mass-ratio planet , i.e., 2.5 times higher than the Neptune/Sun ratio. The planetary system was discovered from the analysi…
KMT-2016-BLG-2052L: Microlensing Binary Composed of M Dwarfs Revealed from a Very Long Time-scale Event
Cheongho Han, Youn Kil Jung, Yossi Shvartzvald +26
We present the analysis of a binary microlensing event KMT-2016-BLG-2052, for which the lensing-induced brightening of the source star lasted for 2 seasons. We determine the lens m…
The Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet) Alert Algorithm and Alert System
Hyoun-Woo Kim, Kyu-Ha Hwang, Yossi Shvartzvald +17
We describe a new microlensing-event alert algorithm that is tailored to the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet) multi-observatory system. The algorithm focuses on detect…
RR Lyrae Variable Stars in the Crater II Dwarf Galaxy
Seok-Joo Joo, Jaemann Kyeong, Soung-Chul Yang +10
We report the detection of RR Lyrae variable stars in Crater II, a recently discovered large and diffuse satellite dwarf galaxy of the Milky Way (MW). Based on B, V time-series pho…
KMT-2016-BLG-1820 and KMT-2016-BLG-2142: Two Microlensing Binaries Composed of Planetary-mass Companions and Very-Low-Mass Primaries
Youn Kil Jung, Kyu-Ha Hwang, Yoon-Hyun Ryu +17
We present the analyses of two short-timescale microlensing events, KMT-2016-BLG-1820 and KMT-2016-BLG-2142. In both light curves, the brief anomali…
KMT-2016-BLG-1107: A New Hollywood-Planet Close/Wide Degeneracy
Kyu-Ha Hwang, Yoon-Hyun Ryu, Hyoun-Woo Kim +17
We show that microlensing event KMT-2016-BLG-1107 displays a new type of degeneracy between wide-binary and close-binary Hollywood events in which a giant-star source envelops the…
Microlensing Parallax for OGLE-2017-BLG-0896 Reveals a Counter-Rotating Low-Mass Brown Dwarf
Yossi Shvartzvald, Jennifer C. Yee, Jan Skowron +63
The kinematics of isolated brown dwarfs in the Galaxy, beyond the solar neighborhood, is virtually unknown. Microlensing has the potential to probe this hidden population, as it ca…
OGLE-2017-BLG-1522: A giant planet around a brown dwarf located in the Galactic bulge
Y. K. Jung, A. Udalski, A. Gould +27
We report the discovery of a giant planet in the OGLE-2017-BLG-1522 microlensing event. The planetary perturbations were clearly identified by high-cadence survey experiments despi…
KMT-2016-BLG-0212: First KMTNet-Only Discovery of a Substellar Companion
K. -H. Hwang, H. -W. Kim, D. -J. Kim +18
We present the analysis of KMT-2016-BLG-0212, a low flux-variation ) microlensing event, which is well-covered by high-cadence data from the three Korea M…
OGLE-2016-BLG-1266: A Probable Brown-Dwarf/Planet Binary at the Deuterium Fusion Limit
M. D. Albrow, J. C. Yee, A. Udalski +33
We report the discovery, via the microlensing method, of a new very-low-mass binary system. By combining measurements from Earth and from the Spitzer telescope in Earth-trailing or…