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Unique Science from a Coordinated LSST-WFIRST Survey of the Galactic Bulge
R. A. Street, M. B. Lund, M. Donachie +19
NASA's WFIRST mission will perform a wide-field, NIR survey of the Galactic Bulge to search for exoplanets via the microlensing techniques. As the mission is due to launch in the m…
Two Jupiter-Mass Planets Discovered by the KMTNet Survey in 2017
I. -G. Shin, Y. -H. Ryu, J. C. Yee +17
We report two microlensing events, KMT-2017-BLG-1038 and KMT-2017-BLG-1146 that are caused by planetary systems. These events were discovered by KMTNet survey observations from the…
Two new free-floating or wide-orbit planets from microlensing
P. Mroz, A. Udalski, D. P. Bennett +57
Planet formation theories predict the existence of free-floating planets that have been ejected from their parent systems. Although they emit little or no light, they can be detect…
Kmt-2016-blg-1397b: Kmtnet-only discovery of a microlens giant planet
Weicheng Zang, Kyu-Ha Hwang, Hyoun-Woo Kim +20
We report the discovery of a giant planet in the KMT-2016-BLG-1397 microlensing event, which was found by The Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet) alone. The time scale of…
Radii of 88 M Subdwarfs and Updated Radius Relations for Low-Metallicity M Dwarf Stars
Aurora Y. Kesseli, J. Davy Kirkpatrick, Sergio B. Fajardo-Acosta +9
M subdwarfs are low-metallicity M dwarfs that typically inhabit the halo population of the Galaxy. Metallicity controls the opacity of stellar atmospheres; in metal poor stars, hyd…
OGLE-2015-BLG-1670Lb: A Cold Neptune beyond the Snow Line in the Provisional WFIRST Microlensing Survey Field
Clément Ranc, David P. Bennett, Yuki Hirao +56
We present the analysis of the microlensing event OGLE-2015-BLG-1670, detected in a high-extinction field, very close to the Galactic plane. Due to the dust extinction along the li…
OGLE-2017-BLG-0039: Microlensing Event with Light from the Lens Identified from Mass Measurement
C. Han, Y. K. Jung, A. Udalski +58
We present the analysis of the caustic-crossing binary microlensing event OGLE-2017-BLG-0039. Thanks to the very long duration of the event, with an event time scale $t_{\rm E}\sim…
MOA-2016-BLG-319Lb: Microlensing Planet Subject to Rare Minor-Image Perturbation Degeneracy in Determining Planet Parameter
Cheongho Han, Ian A. Bond, Andrew Gould +42
We present the analysis of the planetary microlensing event MOA-2016-BLG-319. The event light curve is characterized by a brief ( days) anomaly near the peak produced by mi…
KMT-2017-BLG-0165Lb: A Super-Neptune mass planet Orbiting a Sun-like Host Star
Youn Kil Jung, Andrew Gould, Weicheng Zang +22
We report the discovery of a low mass-ratio planet , i.e., 2.5 times higher than the Neptune/Sun ratio. The planetary system was discovered from the analysi…
KMT-2016-BLG-2052L: Microlensing Binary Composed of M Dwarfs Revealed from a Very Long Time-scale Event
Cheongho Han, Youn Kil Jung, Yossi Shvartzvald +26
We present the analysis of a binary microlensing event KMT-2016-BLG-2052, for which the lensing-induced brightening of the source star lasted for 2 seasons. We determine the lens m…
OGLE-2017-BLG-0537: Microlensing Event with a Resolvable Lens in years from High-resolution Follow-up Observations
Y. K. Jung, C. Han, A. Udalski +29
We present the analysis of the binary-lens microlensing event OGLE-2017-BLG-0537. The light curve of the event exhibits two strong caustic-crossing spikes among which the second ca…
The Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet) Alert Algorithm and Alert System
Hyoun-Woo Kim, Kyu-Ha Hwang, Yossi Shvartzvald +17
We describe a new microlensing-event alert algorithm that is tailored to the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet) multi-observatory system. The algorithm focuses on detect…
A Planetary Microlensing Event with an Unusually Red Source Star: MOA-2011-BLG-291
David P. Bennett, Andrzej Udalski, Ian A. Bond +43
We present the analysis of planetary microlensing event MOA-2011-BLG-291, which has a mass ratio of and a source star that is redder (or brighter) than…
OGLE-2014-BLG-0962 and the First Statistical Validation of Bayesian Priors for Galactic Microlensing
Yutong Shan, Jennifer C. Yee, Andrzej Udalski +46
OGLE-2014-BLG-0962 (OB140962) is a stellar binary microlensing event that was well-covered by observations from the Spitzer satellite as well as ground-based surveys. Modelling yie…
KMT-2016-BLG-1820 and KMT-2016-BLG-2142: Two Microlensing Binaries Composed of Planetary-mass Companions and Very-Low-Mass Primaries
Youn Kil Jung, Kyu-Ha Hwang, Yoon-Hyun Ryu +17
We present the analyses of two short-timescale microlensing events, KMT-2016-BLG-1820 and KMT-2016-BLG-2142. In both light curves, the brief anomali…
KMT-2016-BLG-1107: A New Hollywood-Planet Close/Wide Degeneracy
Kyu-Ha Hwang, Yoon-Hyun Ryu, Hyoun-Woo Kim +17
We show that microlensing event KMT-2016-BLG-1107 displays a new type of degeneracy between wide-binary and close-binary Hollywood events in which a giant-star source envelops the…
Microlensing Parallax for OGLE-2017-BLG-0896 Reveals a Counter-Rotating Low-Mass Brown Dwarf
Yossi Shvartzvald, Jennifer C. Yee, Jan Skowron +63
The kinematics of isolated brown dwarfs in the Galaxy, beyond the solar neighborhood, is virtually unknown. Microlensing has the potential to probe this hidden population, as it ca…
Spitzer Opens New Path to Break Classic Degeneracy for Jupiter-Mass Microlensing Planet OGLE-2017-BLG-1140Lb
S. Calchi Novati, J. Skowron, Y. K. Jung +36
We analyze the combined Spitzer and ground-based data for OGLE-2017-BLG-1140 and show that the event was generated by a Jupiter-class planet orbiting…
MOA-2015-BLG-337: A Planetary System with a Low-mass Brown Dwarf/Planetary Boundary Host, or a Brown Dwarf Binary
S. Miyazaki, T. Sumi, D. P. Bennett +59
We report the discovery and the analysis of the short timescale binary-lens microlensing event, MOA-2015-BLG-337. The lens system could be a planetary system with a very low mass h…
OGLE-2017-BLG-0482Lb: A Microlensing Super-Earth Orbiting a Low-mass Host Star
C. Han, Y. Hirao, A. Udalski +62
We report the discovery of a planetary system in which a super-earth orbits a late M-dwarf host. The planetary system was found from the analysis of the microlensing event OGLE-201…
UKIRT-2017-BLG-001Lb: A giant planet detected through the dust
Y. Shvartzvald, S. Calchi Novati, B. S. Gaudi +8
We report the discovery of a giant planet in event UKIRT-2017-BLG-001, detected by the UKIRT microlensing survey. The mass ratio between the planet and its host is $q=1.50_{-0.14}^…
The WFIRST Exoplanet Microlensing Survey
David P. Bennett, Rachel Akeson, Jay Anderson +71
The Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) was the top ranked large space mission in the 2010 New Worlds, New Horizons decadal survey, and it was formed by merging the scien…
White Paper: Exoplanetary Microlensing from the Ground in the 2020s
Jennifer C. Yee, Jay Anderson, Rachel Akeson +25
Microlensing can access planet populations that no other method can probe: cold wide-orbit planets beyond the snow line, planets in both the Galactic bulge and disk, and free float…
KMT-2016-BLG-0212: First KMTNet-Only Discovery of a Substellar Companion
K. -H. Hwang, H. -W. Kim, D. -J. Kim +18
We present the analysis of KMT-2016-BLG-0212, a low flux-variation ) microlensing event, which is well-covered by high-cadence data from the three Korea M…