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MOA-2020-BLG-108Lb: A Giant Planet Beyond the Snow Line of a Low-Mass Lens Near the Lower Boundary of the Mass-Ratio Desert
Yuki K. Satoh, David P. Bennett, Takahiro Sumi +21
We present an analysis of the microlensing event MOA-2020-BLG-108, which was discovered in June 2020 by the MOA collaboration toward the Galactic bulge. The observed light curve sh…
Characterizing Microlensing Planetary System OGLE-2014-BLG-0676L with High-Resolution Image Constrained Light Curve Modeling
Asahi Idei, Naoki Koshimoto, Daisuke Suzuki +12
We present an analysis that incorporates high-resolution Keck adaptive optics (AO) imaging into microlensing light-curve modeling for the planetary microlensing event OGLE-2014-BLG…
Mass Production of 2023 KMTNet Microlensing Planets. II: Two Planets and A Brown Dwarf
Zhixing Li, Hongyu Li, Weicheng Zang +63
To expand the homogeneous microlensing planetary sample of the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet), we investigate six planetary candidates identified by the AnomalyFinde…
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…
Six microlensing planets detected via sub-day signals during the 2023 -- 2024 season
Cheongho Han, Chung-Uk Lee, Andrzej Udalski +58
We present analyses of six microlensing events: KMT-2023-BLG-0548, KMT-2023-BLG-0830, KMT-2023-BLG-0949, KMT-2024-BLG-1281, KMT-2024-BLG-2059, and KMT-2024-BLG-2242. These were ide…
Four binary microlenses with directly measured masses
Cheongho Han, Andrzej Udalski, Chung-Uk Lee +58
We investigated binary lens events from the 2022-2024 microlensing surveys, aiming to identify events suitable for lens mass measurements. We focused on two key light curve feature…
KMT-2022-BLG-0086: Another binary-lens binary-source microlensing event
Sun-Ju Chung, Kyu-Ha Hwang, Jennifer C. Yee +40
We present the analysis of a microlensing event KMT-2022-BLG-0086 of which the overall light curve is not described by a binary-lens single-source (2L1S) model, which suggests the…
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 Reanalysis of KMTNet Microlensing Events, Paper II: Two New Planets in Giant-Source Events
Hongjing Yang, Jennifer C. Yee, Jiyuan Zhang +61
In this work, we continue to apply the updated KMTNet tender-love care (TLC) photometric pipeline to historical microlensing events. We apply the pipeline to a subsample of events…
MOA-2010-BLG-328: Keck and HST Expose the Limits of Occams Razor in Microlensing
Aikaterini Vandorou, David P. Bennett, Jean-Philippe Beaulieu +7
We present high resolution follow-up data of the planetary microlensing event MOA-2010-BLG-328, using Keck and the Hubble. Keck data, taken 8 years after the event, reveal a strong…
Analyses of anomalous lensing events detected from the UKIRT microlensing survey
Cheongho Han, Weicheng Zang, Andrzej Udalski +61
The United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) microlensing survey was conducted over four years, from 2016 to 2019, with the goal of serving as a precursor to future near-infrared…
OGLE-2014-BLG-1760: A Jupiter-Sun analogue residing in the Galactic Bulge
Natalia E. Rektsini, Clement Ranc, Naoki Koshimoto +11
We present the analysis of OGLE-2014-BLG-1760, a planetary system in the galactic bulge. We combine Keck Adaptive Optics follow-up observations in -band with re-reduced light cu…
MOA-2022-BLG-033Lb, KMT-2023-BLG-0119Lb, and KMT-2023-BLG-1896Lb: Three low mass-ratio microlensing planets detected through dip signals
Cheongho Han, Ian A. Bond, Youn Kil Jung +45
We examined the anomalies in the light curves of the lensing events MOA-2022-BLG-033, KMT-2023-BLG-0119, and KMT-2023-BLG-1896. We conducted detailed modeling of the light curves t…
OGLE-2015-BLG-1609Lb: Sub-jovian planet orbiting a low-mass stellar or brown dwarf host
M. J. Mróz, R. Poleski, A. Udalski +70
We present a comprehensive analysis of a planetary microlensing event OGLE-2015-BLG-1609. The planetary anomaly was detected by two survey telescopes, OGLE and MOA. Each of these s…
Image-Constrained Modeling with Hubble and Keck Images Reveals that OGLE-2012-BLG-0563Lb is a Jupiter-Mass planet Orbiting a K Dwarf
David P. Bennett, Aparna Bhattacharya, Jean-Philippe Beaulieu +7
We present high angular resolution imaging from the {\sl Hubble Space Telescope} combined with adaptive optics imaging results from the {\sl Keck}-II telescope to determine the mas…
KMT-2021-BLG-0284, KMT-2022-BLG-2480, and KMT-2024-BLG-0412: Three microlensing events involving two lens masses and two source stars
Cheongho Han, Andrzej Udalski, Ian A. Bond +59
We carried out a project involving the systematic analysis of microlensing data from the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network survey. The aim of this project is to identify lensing…
The Microlensing Event Rate and Optical Depth from MOA-II 9 year Survey toward the Galactic Bulge
Kansuke Nunota, Takahiro Sumi, Naoki Koshimoto +23
We present measurements of the microlensing optical depth and event rate toward the Galactic bulge using the dataset from the 2006--2014 MOA-II survey, which covers 22 bulge fields…
A Candidate High-Velocity Exoplanet System in the Galactic Bulge
Sean K. Terry, Jean-Philippe Beaulieu, David P. Bennett +11
We present an analysis of adaptive optics (AO) images from the Keck-I telescope of the microlensing event MOA-2011-BLG-262. The original discovery paper by Bennett et al. 2014 repo…
Microlensing brown-dwarf companions in binaries detected during the 2022 and 2023 seasons
Cheongho Han, Ian A. Bond, Andrzej Udalski +63
Building on previous works to construct a homogeneous sample of brown dwarfs in binary systems, we investigate microlensing events detected by the Korea Microlensing Telescope Netw…
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…
Four microlensing giant planets detected through signals produced by minor-image perturbations
Cheongho Han, Ian A. Bond, Chung-Uk Lee +63
We investigated the nature of the anomalies appearing in four microlensing events KMT-2020-BLG-0757, KMT-2022-BLG-0732, KMT-2022-BLG-1787, and KMT-2022-BLG-1852. The light curves o…
KMT-2023-BLG-1866Lb: Microlensing super-Earth around an M dwarf host
Cheongho Han, Ian A. Bond, Andrzej Udalski +64
We investigate the nature of the short-term anomaly that appears in the lensing light curve of KMT-2023-BLG-1866. The anomaly was only partly covered due to its short duration, les…