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astro-ph.EP2026

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…

astro-ph.EP2026

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…

astro-ph.EP2026

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…

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

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…

astro-ph.EP2025

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…

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★ 38 cited

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…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 9 cited

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…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 2 cited

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…

astro-ph.EP2025

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…

astro-ph.EP2025

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…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 2 cited

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…

astro-ph.EP2024

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…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 4 cited

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…

astro-ph.EP2024

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…

astro-ph.EP2024

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…

astro-ph.EP2024

Measurement of Dependence of Microlensing Planet Frequency on The Host Star Mass and Galactocentric Distance by using a Galactic Model

Kansuke Nunota, Naoki Koshimoto, Daisuke Suzuki +6

We measure the dependence of planet frequency on host star mass, , and distance from the Galactic center, , using a sample of planets discovered by gravitatio…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 9 cited

Unveiling MOA-2007-BLG-192: An M Dwarf Hosting a Likely Super-Earth

Sean K. Terry, Jean-Philippe Beaulieu, David P. Bennett +15

We present an analysis of high angular resolution images of the microlensing target MOA-2007-BLG-192 using Keck adaptive optics and the Hubble Space Telescope. The planetary host s…

astro-ph.EP2024

Precise mass measurement of OGLE-2013-BLG-0132/MOA-2013-BLG-148: a Saturn mass planet orbiting an M-dwarf

Natalia E. Rektsini, Virginie Batista, Clement Ranc +10

We revisit the planetary microlensing event OGLE-2013-BLG-0132/MOA-2013-BLG-148 using Keck adaptive optics imaging in 2013 with NIRC2 and in 2020, 7.4 years after the event, with O…

astro-ph.EP2024

MOA-2022-BLG-563Lb, KMT-2023-BLG-0469Lb, and KMT-2023-BLG-0735Lb: Three sub-Jovian-mass microlensing planets

Cheongho Han, Youn Kil Jung, Ian A. Bond +45

We analyze the anomalies appearing in the light curves of the three microlensing events MOA-2022-BLG-563, KMT-2023-BLG-0469, and KMT-2023-BLG-0735. The anomalies exhibit common sho…

astro-ph.EP2024

Systematic KMTNet Planetary Anomaly Search. XI. Complete Sample of 2016 Sub-Prime Field Planets

In-Gu Shin, Jennifer C. Yee, Weicheng Zang +63

Following Shin et al. (2023b), which is a part of the Systematic KMTNet Planetary Anomaly Search series (i.e., a search for planets in the 2016 KMTNet prime fields), we conduct a s…

astro-ph.EP2023

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…

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…