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Are Near Resonant Multiple-planet Systems from Kepler Young?
Wei Zhu, Qingru Hu
Recent studies have claimed that Kepler multi-planet systems hosting near-resonant planet pairs---particularly those near second-order mean-motion resonances (MMRs)---exhibit small…
Bernhard-1: An Eccentric Binary Periodically Obscured by its Misaligned Circumbinary Disk
Zhecheng Hu, Wei Zhu, Ping Chen +2
Bernhard-1 is a proposed KH 15D-like circumbinary disk occultation (CBO) system, but its binary nature and disk geometry have not previously been confirmed. We present new optical…
CausticFlow: An Efficient Machine Learning Framework Combining Neural Differential Equations and Normalizing Flows for Binary Microlensing Parameter Inference
Haibin Ren, Wei Zhu
We introduce CausticFlow, a machine learning framework that combines neural controlled differential equations with normalizing flows to infer binary microlensing parameters. This a…
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…
Six New Circumbinary Disk Occultation (CBO) Candidates from the Zwicky Transient Facility
Zhecheng Hu, Wei Zhu, Shuming Wang +1
Circumbinary disk occultation (CBO) systems, in which a misaligned circumbinary disk periodically obscures the central binary, provide unique probes of disk structure and dynamics.…
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…
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…
MOA-2022-BLG-091Lb and KMT-2024-BLG-1209Lb: Microlensing planets detected through weak caustic-crossing signals
Cheongho Han, Chung-Uk Lee, Andrzej Udalski +66
The light curves of the microlensing events MOA-2022-BLG-091 and KMT-2024-BLG-1209 exhibit anomalies with very similar features. These anomalies appear near the peaks of the light…
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…
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…
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…
A differentiable binary microlensing model using adaptive contour integration method
Haibin Ren, Wei Zhu
We present microlux, which is a Jax-based code that can compute the binary microlensing light curve and its derivatives both efficiently and accurately. The key feature of microlux…
An extremely low-density exoplanet spins slow
Quanyi Liu, Wei Zhu, Kento Masuda +3
We present constraints on the shape of Kepler-51d, which is a super-puff with a mass and a radius , based on detailed modeling of the transit lig…
Analysis of the full Spitzer microlensing sample I: Dark remnant candidates and Gaia predictions
Krzysztof A. Rybicki, Yossi Shvartzvald, Jennifer C. Yee +70
In the pursuit of understanding the population of stellar remnants within the Milky Way, we analyze the sample of microlensing events observed by the Spitzer Space Teles…
Detecting Planetary Oblateness in the Era of JWST: A Case Study of Kepler-167e
Quanyi Liu, Wei Zhu, Yifan Zhou +5
Planets may be rotationally flattened, and their oblateness thus provide useful information on their formation and evolution. Here we develop a new algorithm that can compute the t…
OGLE-2015-BLG-0845L: A low-mass M dwarf from the microlensing parallax and xallarap effects
Zhecheng Hu, Wei Zhu, Andrew Gould +51
We present the analysis of the microlensing event OGLE-2015-BLG-0845, which was affected by both the microlensing parallax and xallarap effects. The former was detected via the sim…
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…
KMT-2023-BLG-1431Lb: A New Microlensing Planet from a Subtle Signature
Aislyn Bell, Jiyuan Zhang, Youn Kil Jung +70
The current studies of microlensing planets are limited by small number statistics. Follow-up observations of high-magnification microlensing events can efficiently form a statisti…
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…
Planets Across Space and Time (PAST). V. The evolution of hot Jupiters revealed by the age distribution of their host stars
Di-Chang Chen, Ji-Wei Xie, Ji-Lin Zhou +11
The unexpected discovery of hot Jupiters challenged the classical theory of planet formation inspired by our solar system. Until now, the origin and evolution of hot Jupiters are s…
Prospects from TESS and Gaia to constrain the flatness of planetary systems
Juan I. Espinoza-Retamal, Wei Zhu, Cristobal Petrovich
The mutual inclination between planets orbiting the same star provides key information to understand the formation and evolution of multi-planet systems. In this work, we investiga…
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…
Systematic KMTNet Planetary Anomaly Search. X. Complete Sample of 2017 Prime-Field Planets
Yoon-Hyun Ryu, Andrzej Udalski, Jennifer C. Yee +38
We complete the analysis of planetary candidates found by the KMT AnomalyFinder for the 2017 prime fields that cover . We report 3 unambiguous planets: OGLE-2…
KMT-2022-BLG-0475Lb and KMT-2022-BLG-1480Lb: Microlensing ice giants detected via non-caustic-crossing channel
Cheongho Han, Chung-Uk Lee, Ian A. Bond +49
We investigate the microlensing data collected in the 2022 season from the high-cadence microlensing surveys in order to find weak signals produced by planetary companions to lense…