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most citedMicrolensing events indicate that super-Earth exoplanets are common in Jupiter-like orbits

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astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

KMT-2022-BLG-1818Lb,c: A Cold Super-Jupiter with a Saturn Sibling

Hongyu Li, Jiyuan Zhang, Cheongho Han +72

We present the discovery and analysis of the sixth microlensing two-planet system, KMT-2022-BLG-1818Lb,c, detected by a follow-up program targeting high-magnification events. Both…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 38 cited

Microlensing events indicate that super-Earth exoplanets are common in Jupiter-like orbits

Weicheng Zang, Youn Kil Jung, Jennifer C. Yee +65

Exoplanets classified as super-Earths are commonly observed on short period orbits, close to their host stars, but their abundance on wider orbits is poorly constrained. Gravitatio…

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.EP2025

Systematic Search for FFPs in KMTNet Full-Frame Images. I. Photometry Pipeline

Qiyue Qian, Hongjing Yang, Weicheng Zang +22

To exhume the buried signatures of free-floating planets (FFPs) with small angular Einstein radius , we build a new full-frame difference image pipeline for the Korean M…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 5 cited

How Rare are TESS Free-Floating Planets?

Hongjing Yang, Weicheng Zang, Tianjun Gan +3

Recently, Kunimoto et al. claimed that a short-lived signal in the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) Sector 61 database was possibly caused by a microlensing event with…

astro-ph.EP2023

OGLE-2017-BLG-0448Lb: A Low Mass-Ratio Wide-Orbit Microlensing Planet?

Ruocheng Zhai, Radosław Poleski, Weicheng Zang +38

The gravitational microlensing technique is most sensitive to planets in a Jupiter-like orbit and has detected more than 200 planets. However, only a few wide-orbit () micro…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 2 cited

Simulations of Triple Microlensing Events I: Detectability of a scaled Sun-Jupiter-Saturn System

Renkun Kuang, Weicheng Zang, Shude Mao +2

Up to date, only 13 firmly established triple microlensing events have been discovered, so the occurrence rates of microlensing two-planet systems and planets in binary systems are…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 18 cited

ET White Paper: To Find the First Earth 2.0

Jian Ge, Hui Zhang, Weicheng Zang +163

We propose to develop a wide-field and ultra-high-precision photometric survey mission, temporarily named "Earth 2.0 (ET)". This mission is designed to measure, for the first time,…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 17 cited

OGLE-2019-BLG-1470LABc: Another Microlensing Giant Planet in a Binary System?

Renkun Kuang, Weicheng Zang, Youn Kil Jung +36

We report the discovery and analysis of a candidate triple-lens single-source (3L1S) microlensing event, OGLE-2019-BLG-1470. This event was first classified as a normal binary-lens…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 10 cited

Light Curve Calculations for Triple Microlensing Systems

Renkun Kuang, Shude Mao, Tianshu Wang +2

We present a method to compute the magnification of a finite source star lensed by a triple lens system based on the image boundary (contour integration) method. We describe a new…