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most citedSystematic Reanalysis of KMTNet microlensing events, Paper I: Updates of the Photometry Pipeline and a New Planet Candidate

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16 papers

astro-ph.SR2026

Mode Switching in Two Blue Large Amplitude Pulsators observed by OGLE, KMTNet and DREAMS

Hao Ma, Shude Mao, Seung-Lee Kim +20

Blue large-amplitude pulsators (BLAPs) are rare, hot, short-period pulsating stars whose rapid oscillations provide a unique probe of stellar interiors and atmospheres. In this pap…

astro-ph.EP2026

KMT-2026-BLG-0083L: A Two-Jovian-Planet System Orbiting an M Dwarf Discovered by Microlensing

Cheongho Han, Chung-Uk Lee, Zhixing Li +65

We present the analysis of the microlensing event KMT-2026-BLG-0083, which was independently detected by the KMTNet, OGLE, and PRIME surveys and also monitored by the DREAMS survey…

astro-ph.EP2026

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…

astro-ph.EP2026

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…

astro-ph.SR2026

A Minute-Cadence Deep Bulge Survey: First Data Release of DREAMS

Hongjing Yang, Weicheng Zang, Francisco Valdes +31

The DECam Rogue Earths and Mars Survey (DREAMS), a NOIRLab survey program, has been conducting a three-year survey covering a 5 deg area in the Galactic bulge (roughly spanning…

astro-ph.EP2026

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…

astro-ph.EP2026

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…

astro-ph.EP2026★ 3 cited

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…

astro-ph.EP2025

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…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

Binary-lens Microlensing Degeneracy: Impact on Planetary Sensitivity and Mass-ratio Function

Yuxin Shang, Hongjing Yang, Jiyuan Zhang +5

Gravitational microlensing is a unique method for discovering cold planets across a broad mass range. Reliable statistics of the microlensing planets require accurate sensitivity e…

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★ 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.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.EP2023★ 47 cited

Systematic Reanalysis of KMTNet microlensing events, Paper I: Updates of the Photometry Pipeline and a New Planet Candidate

Hongjing Yang, Jennifer C. Yee, Kyu-Ha Hwang +52

In this work, we update and develop algorithms for KMTNet tender-love care (TLC) photometry in order to create an new, mostly automated, TLC pipeline. We then start a project to sy…

astro-ph.EP2023

KMT-2021-BLG-1547Lb: Giant microlensing planet detected through a signal deformed by source binarity

Cheongho Han, Weicheng Zang, Youn Kil Jung +52

We investigate the previous microlensing data collected by the KMTNet survey in search of anomalous events for which no precise interpretations of the anomalies have been suggested…