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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…
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…
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…
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…
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-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…
A Transiting Super-Earth in the Radius Valley and An Outer Planet Candidate Around HD 307842
Xinyan Hua, Sharon Xuesong Wang, Johanna K. Teske +32
We report the confirmation of a TESS-discovered transiting super-Earth planet orbiting a mid-G star, HD 307842 (TOI-784). The planet has a period of 2.8 days, and the radial veloci…
The Metallicity Dimension of the Super Earth-Cold Jupiter Correlation
Wei Zhu
The correlation between close-in super Earths and distant cold Jupiters in planetary systems has important implications for their formation and evolution. In contrary to some earli…
KMT-2021-BLG-2010Lb, KMT-2022-BLG-0371Lb, and KMT-2022-BLG-1013Lb: Three microlensing planets detected via partially covered signals
Cheongho Han, Chung-Uk Lee, Weicheng Zang +25
We inspect 4 microlensing events KMT-2021-BLG-1968, KMT-2021-BLG-2010, KMT-2022-BLG-0371, and KMT-2022-BLG-1013, for which the light curves exhibit partially covered short-term cen…
MOA-2022-BLG-249Lb: Nearby microlensing super-Earth planet detected from high-cadence surveys
Cheongho Han, Andrew Gould, Youn Kil Jung +51
We investigate the data collected by the high-cadence microlensing surveys during the 2022 season in search for planetary signals appearing in the light curves of microlensing even…
Systematic KMTNet Planetary Anomaly Search. VIII. Complete Sample of 2019 Subprime Field Planets
Youn Kil Jung, Weicheng Zang, Hanyue Wang +41
We complete the publication of all microlensing planets (and ``possible planets'') identified by the uniform approach of the KMT AnomalyFinder system in the 21 KMT subprime fields…
KMT-2022-BLG-0440Lb: A New Microlensing Planet with the Central-Resonant Caustic Degeneracy Broken
Jiyuan Zhang, Weicheng Zang, Youn Kil Jung +57
We present the observations and analysis of a high-magnification microlensing planetary event, KMT-2022-BLG-0440, for which the weak and short-lived planetary signal was covered by…