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

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34 papers

astro-ph.EP2016

A Super-Jupiter Microlens Planet Characterized by High-Cadence KMTNet Microlensing Survey Observations of OGLE-2015-BLG-0954

I. -G. Shin, Y. -H. Ryu, A. Udalski +26

We report the characterization of a massive (m_p=3.9 +- 1.4 M_jup) microlensing planet (OGLE-2015-BLG-0954Lb) orbiting an M dwarf host (M=0.33 +- 0.12 M_sun) at a distance toward t…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 25 cited

Spitzer Observations of OGLE-2015-BLG-1212 Reveal a New Path to Breaking Strong Microlens Degeneracies

V. Bozza, Y. Shvartzvald, A. Udalski +98

Spitzer microlensing parallax observations of OGLE-2015-BLG-1212 decisively breaks a degeneracy between planetary and binary solutions that is somewhat ambiguous when only ground-b…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 12 cited

Red noise versus planetary interpretations in the microlensing event OGLE-2013-BLG-446

E. Bachelet, D. M. Bramich, C. Han +98

For all exoplanet candidates, the reliability of a claimed detection needs to be assessed through a careful study of systematic errors in the data to minimize the false positives r…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 54 cited

Mass Measurements of Isolated Objects from Space-based Microlensing

Wei Zhu, S. Calchi Novati, A. Gould +78

We report on the mass and distance measurements of two single-lens events from the 2015 \emph{Spitzer} microlensing campaign. With both finite-source effect and microlens parallax…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 119 cited

Spitzer Parallax of OGLE-2015-BLG-0966: A Cold Neptune in the Galactic Disk

R. A. Street, A. Udalski, S. Calchi Novati +106

We report the detection of a Cold Neptune m_planet=21+/-2MEarth orbiting a 0.38MSol M dwarf lying 2.5-3.3 kpc toward the Galactic center as part of a campaign combining ground-base…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 42 cited

Spitzer Microlens Measurement of a Massive Remnant in a Well-Separated Binary

Y. Shvartzvald, A. Udalski, A. Gould +63

We report the detection and mass measurement of a binary lens OGLE-2015-BLG-1285La,b, with the more massive component having (80% probability). A main-sequence…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 2 cited

KMT-2015-1b: a Giant Planet Orbiting a Low-mass Dwarf Host Star Discovered by a New High-cadence Microlensing Survey with a Global Telescope Network

K. -H. Hwang, C. Han, J. -Y. Choi +12

We report the discovery of an extrasolar planet, KMT-2015-1b, that was detected using the microlensing technique. The planetary lensing event was observed by KMTNet survey that has…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 65 cited

A Venus-Mass Planet Orbiting a Brown Dwarf: Missing Link between Planets and Moons

A. Udalski, Y. K. Jung, C. Han +20

The co-planarity of solar-system planets led Kant to suggest that they formed from an accretion disk, and the discovery of hundreds of such disks around young stars as well as hund…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 85 cited

OGLE-2012-BLG-0563Lb: a Saturn-mass Planet around an M Dwarf with the Mass Constrained by Subaru AO imaging

A. Fukui, A. Gould, T. Sumi +58

We report the discovery of a microlensing exoplanet OGLE-2012-BLG-0563Lb with the planet-star mass ratio ~1 x 10^{-3}. Intensive photometric observations of a high-magnification mi…

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.EP2015★ 6 cited

Constraint on Additional Planets in Planetary Systems Discovered through the Channel of High-magnification Gravitational Microlensing Events

I. -G. Shin, C. Han, J. -Y. Choi +3

High-magnification gravitational microlensing events provide an important channel of detecting planetary systems with multiple giants located at their birth places. In order to inv…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 48 cited

Spitzer as Microlens Parallax Satellite: Mass and Distance Measurements of Binary Lens System OGLE-2014-BLG-1050L

Wei Zhu, A. Udalski, A. Gould +26

We report the first mass and distance measurement of a caustic-crossing binary system OGLE-2014-BLG-1050L using the space-based microlens parallax method. \emph{Spitzer} captured t…

astro-ph.EP2014★ 36 cited

OGLE-2011-BLG-0265Lb: a Jovian Microlensing Planet Orbiting an M Dwarf

J. Skowron, I. -G. Shin, A. Udalski +121

We report the discovery of a Jupiter-mass planet orbiting an M-dwarf star that gave rise to the microlensing event OGLE-2011-BLG-0265. Such a system is very rare among known planet…

astro-ph.EP2014★ 116 cited

A Terrestrial Planet in a ~1 AU Orbit Around One Member of a ~15 AU Binary

A. Gould, A. Udalski, I. -G. Shin +61

We detect a cold, terrestrial planet in a binary-star system using gravitational microlensing. The planet has low mass (2 Earth masses) and lies projected at ~ 0.8 a…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 57 cited

OGLE-2013-BLG-0102LA,B: Microlensing binary with components at star/brown-dwarf and brown-dwarf/planet boundaries

Y. K. Jung, A. Udalski, T. Sumi +51

We present the analysis of the gravitational microlensing event OGLE-2013-BLG-0102. The light curve of the event is characterized by a strong short-term anomaly superposed on a smo…

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.SR2014★ 19 cited

Candidate Gravitational Microlensing Events for Future Direct Lens Imaging

C. B. Henderson, H. Park, T. Sumi +76

The mass of the lenses giving rise to Galactic microlensing events can be constrained by measuring the relative lens-source proper motion and lens flux. The flux of the lens can be…

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★ 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.SR2013★ 59 cited

Interpretation of a Short-Term Anomaly in the Gravitational Microlensing Event MOA-2012-BLG-486

K. -H. Hwang, J. -Y. Choi, I. A. Bond +78

A planetary microlensing signal is generally characterized by a short-term perturbation to the standard single lensing light curve. A subset of binary-source events can produce per…

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.SR2013★ 29 cited

Gravitational Binary-lens Events with Prominent Effects of Lens Orbital Motion

H. Park, A. Udalski, C. Han +58

Gravitational microlensing events produced by lenses composed of binary masses are important because they provide a major channel to determine physical parameters of lenses. In thi…

astro-ph.SR2013★ 51 cited

Microlensing Discovery of a Population of Very Tight, Very Low-mass Binary Brown Dwarfs

J. -Y. Choi, C. Han, A. Udalski +121

Although many models have been proposed, the physical mechanisms responsible for the formation of low-mass brown dwarfs are poorly understood. The multiplicity properties and minim…