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astro-ph.EP2015★ 50 cited

MOA-2007-BLG-197: Exploring the brown dwarf desert

C. Ranc, A. Cassan, M. D. Albrow +48

We present the analysis of MOA-2007-BLG-197Lb, the first brown dwarf companion to a Sun-like star detected through gravitational microlensing. The event was alerted and followed-up…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 5 cited

Reanalyses of Anomalous Gravitational Microlensing Events in the OGLE-III Early Warning System Database with Combined Data

J. Jeong, H. Park, C. Han +95

We reanalyze microlensing events in the published list of anomalous events that were observed from the OGLE lensing survey conducted during 2004-2008 period. In order to check the…

astro-ph.EP2014★ 10 cited

OGLE-2012-BLG-0455/MOA-2012-BLG-206: Microlensing event with ambiguity in planetary interpretations caused by incomplete coverage of planetary signal

H. Park, C. Han, A. Gould +55

Characterizing a microlensing planet is done from modeling an observed lensing light curve. In this process, it is often confronted that solutions of different lensing parameters r…

astro-ph.EP2014★ 23 cited

OGLE-2008-BLG-355Lb: A Massive Planet around A Late type Star

N. Koshimoto, A. Udalski, T. Sumi +32

We report the discovery of a massive planet OGLE-2008-BLG-355Lb. The light curve analysis indicates a planet:host mass ratio of q = 0.0118 +/- 0.0006 at a separation of 0.877 +/- 0…

astro-ph.EP2014★ 20 cited

MOA-2013-BLG-220Lb: Massive Planetary Companion to Galactic-Disk Host

J. C. Yee, C. Han, A. Gould +70

We report the discovery of MOA-2013-BLG-220Lb, which has a super-Jupiter mass ratio relative to its host. The proper motion, $μ=12.5\pm 1\, {\rm mas}…

astro-ph.EP2013★ 22 cited

MOA-2008-BLG-379Lb: A Massive Planet from a High Magnification Event with a Faint Source

D. Suzuki, A. Udalski, T. Sumi +31

We report analysis of high microlensing event MOA-2008-BLG-379, which has a strong microlensing anomaly at its peak, due to a massive planet with a mass ratio of q = 6.9 x 10^{-3}.…

astro-ph.EP2013★ 175 cited

A Sub-Earth-Mass Moon Orbiting a Gas Giant Primary or a High Velocity Planetary System in the Galactic Bulge

D. P. Bennett, V. Batista, I. A. Bond +90

We present the first microlensing candidate for a free-floating exoplanet-exomoon system, MOA-2011-BLG-262, with a primary lens mass of M_host ~ 4 Jupiter masses hosting a sub-Eart…

astro-ph.EP2013★ 36 cited

MOA-2010-BLG-328Lb: a sub-Neptune orbiting very late M dwarf ?

K. Furusawa, A. Udalski, T. Sumi +119

We analyze the planetary microlensing event MOA-2010-BLG-328. The best fit yields host and planetary masses of Mh = 0.11+/-0.01 M_{sun} and Mp = 9.2+/-2.2M_Earth, corresponding to…

astro-ph.EP2013★ 31 cited

A Super-Jupiter orbiting a late-type star: A refined analysis of microlensing event OGLE-2012-BLG-0406

Y. Tsapras, J. -Y. Choi, R. A. Street +122

We present a detailed analysis of survey and follow-up observations of microlensing event OGLE-2012-BLG-0406 based on data obtained from 10 different observatories. Intensive cover…

astro-ph.EP2013★ 66 cited

MOA-2011-BLG-322Lb: a "second generation survey" microlensing planet

Y. Shvartzvald, D. Maoz, S. Kaspi +37

Global "second-generation" microlensing surveys aim to discover and characterize extrasolar planets and their frequency, by means of round-the-clock high-cadence monitoring of a la…

astro-ph.EP2013★ 75 cited

Microlensing Discovery of a Tight, Low Mass-ratio Planetary-mass Object around an Old, Field Brown Dwarf

C. Han, Y. K. Jung, A. Udalski +67

Observations of accretion disks around young brown dwarfs have led to the speculation that they may form planetary systems similar to normal stars. While there have been several de…

astro-ph.EP2013★ 37 cited

A Giant Planet beyond the Snow Line in Microlensing Event OGLE-2011-BLG-0251

N. Kains, R. Street, J. -Y. Choi +128

We present the analysis of the gravitational microlensing event OGLE-2011-BLG-0251. This anomalous event was observed by several survey and follow-up collaborations conducting micr…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 46 cited

MOA-2010-BLG-073L: An M-Dwarf with a Substellar Companion at the Planet/Brown Dwarf Boundary

R. A. Street, J. -Y. Choi, Y. Tsapras +129

We present an analysis of the anomalous microlensing event, MOA-2010-BLG-073, announced by the Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics survey on 2010-03-18. This event was remark…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 20 cited

MOA-2010-BLG-311: A planetary candidate below the threshold of reliable detection

J. C. Yee, L. -W. Hung, I. A. Bond +123

We analyze MOA-2010-BLG-311, a high magnification (A_max>600) microlensing event with complete data coverage over the peak, making it very sensitive to planetary signals. We fit th…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 19 cited

A possible binary system of a stellar remnant in the high magnification gravitational microlensing event OGLE-2007-BLG-514

N. Miyake, A. Udalski, T. Sumi +78

We report the extremely high magnification (A > 1000) binary microlensing event OGLE-2007-BLG-514. We obtained good coverage around the double peak structure in the light curve via…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 77 cited

MOA-2010-BLG-477Lb: constraining the mass of a microlensing planet from microlensing parallax, orbital motion and detection of blended light

E. Bachelet, I. -G. Shin, C. Han +138

Microlensing detections of cool planets are important for the construction of an unbiased sample to estimate the frequency of planets beyond the snow line, which is where giant pla…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 27 cited

A New Type of Ambiguity in the Planet and Binary Interpretations of Central Perturbations of High-Magnification Gravitational Microlensing Events

J. -Y. Choi, I. -G. Shin, C. Han +118

High-magnification microlensing events provide an important channel to detect planets. Perturbations near the peak of a high-magnification event can be produced either by a planet…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 25 cited

OGLE-2008-BLG-510: first automated real-time detection of a weak microlensing anomaly - brown dwarf or stellar binary?

V. Bozza, M. Dominik, N. J. Rattenbury +103

The microlensing event OGLE-2008-BLG-510 is characterised by an evident asymmetric shape of the peak, promptly detected by the ARTEMiS system in real time. The skewness of the ligh…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 99 cited

Planetary and Other Short Binary Microlensing Events from the MOA Short Event Analysis

D. P. Bennett, T. Sumi, I. A. Bond +22

We present the analysis of four candidate short duration binary microlensing events from the 2006-2007 MOA Project short event analysis. These events were discovered as a byproduct…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 235 cited

MOA-2011-BLG-293Lb: A test of pure survey microlensing planet detections

J. C. Yee, Y. Shvartzvald, A. Gal-Yam +10

Because of the development of large-format, wide-field cameras, microlensing surveys are now able to monitor millions of stars with sufficient cadence to detect planets. These new…

astro-ph.EP2011★ 124 cited

Discovery and Mass Measurements of a Cold, 10-Earth Mass Planet and Its Host Star

Y. Muraki, C. Han, D. P. Bennett +125

We present the discovery and mass measurement of the cold, low-mass planet MOA-2009-BLG-266Lb, made with the gravitational microlensing method. This planet has a mass of m_p = 10.4…

astro-ph.EP2011★ 522 cited

Unbound or Distant Planetary Mass Population Detected by Gravitational Microlensing

T. Sumi, K. Kamiya, A. Udalski +36

Since 1995, more than 500 exoplanets have been detected using different techniques, of which 11 were detected with gravitational microlensing. Most of these are gravitationally bou…

astro-ph.EP2011★ 183 cited

MOA-2009-BLG-387Lb: A massive planet orbiting an M dwarf

Virginie Batista, A. Gould, S. Dieters +25

We report the discovery of a planet with a high planet-to-star mass ratio in the microlensing event MOA-2009-BLG-387, which exhibited pronounced deviations over a 12-day interval,…

astro-ph.EP2010★ 42 cited

A sub-Saturn Mass Planet, MOA-2009-BLG-319Lb

N. Miyake, T. Sumi, Subo Dong +119

We report the gravitational microlensing discovery of a sub-Saturn mass planet, MOA-2009-BLG-319Lb, orbiting a K or M-dwarf star in the inner Galactic disk or Galactic bulge. The h…