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most citedThe Exoplanet Mass-Ratio Function from the MOA-II Survey: Discovery of a Break and Likely Peak at a Neptune Mass

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71 papers

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…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 22 cited

KMT-2021-BLG-0171Lb and KMT-2021-BLG-1689Lb: Two Microlensing Planets in the KMTNet High-cadence Fields with Followup Observations

Hongjing Yang, Weicheng Zang, Andrew Gould +56

Follow-up observations of high-magnification gravitational microlensing events can fully exploit their intrinsic sensitivity to detect extrasolar planets, especially those with sma…

astro-ph.EP2021

KMT-2021-BLG-0322: Severe degeneracy between triple-lens and higher-order binary-lens interpretations

Cheongho Han, Andrew Gould, Yuki Hirao +46

We investigate the microlensing event KMT-2021-BLG-0322, for which the light curve exhibits three distinctive sets of caustic-crossing features. It is found that the overall featur…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 1 cited

New Giant Planet beyond the Snow Line for an Extended MOA Exoplanet Microlens Sample

Clément Ranc, David P. Bennett, Richard K. Barry +28

Characterizing a planet detected by microlensing is hard if the planetary signal is weak or the lens-source relative trajectory is far from caustics. However, statistical analyses…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 12 cited

MOA-2006-BLG-074: recognizing xallarap contaminants in planetary microlensing

P. Rota, Y. Hirao, V. Bozza +23

MOA-2006-BLG-074 was selected as one of the most promising planetary candidates in a retrospective analysis of the MOA collaboration: its asymmetric high-magnification peak can be…

astro-ph.EP2021

OGLE-2018-BLG-1185b : A Low-Mass Microlensing Planet Orbiting a Low-Mass Dwarf

Iona Kondo, Jennifer C. Yee, David P. Bennett +94

We report the analysis of planetary microlensing event OGLE-2018-BLG-1185, which was observed by a large number of ground-based telescopes and by the Space Telescope. The…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 15 cited

KMT-2019-BLG-1715: planetary microlensing event with three lens masses and two source stars

Cheongho Han, Andrzej Udalski, Doeone Kim +61

We investigate the gravitational microlensing event KMT-2019-BLG-1715, of which light curve shows two short-term anomalies from a caustic-crossing binary-lensing light curve: one w…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 61 cited

Systematic KMTNet Planetary Anomaly Search, Paper I: OGLE-2019-BLG-1053Lb, A Buried Terrestrial Planet

Weicheng Zang, Kyu-Ha Hwang, Andrzej Udalski +69

In order to exhume the buried signatures of "missing planetary caustics" in the KMTNet data, we conducted a systematic anomaly search to the residuals from point-source point-lens…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 12 cited

KMT-2019-BLG-0371 and the Limits of Bayesian Analysis

Yun Hak Kim, Sun-Ju Chung, Jennifer C. Yee +54

We show that the perturbation at the peak of the light curve of microlensing event KMT-2019-BLG-0371 is explained by a model with a mass ratio between the host star and planet of $…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 7 cited

OGLE-2019-BLG-0960Lb: The Smallest Microlensing Planet

Jennifer C. Yee, Weicheng Zang, Andrzej Udalski +80

We report the analysis of OGLE-2019-BLG-0960, which contains the smallest mass-ratio microlensing planet found to date (q = 1.2--1.6 x 10^{-5} at 1-sigma). Although there is substa…

astro-ph.EP2020

OGLE-2017-BLG-1049: Another giant planet microlensing event

Yun Hak Kim, Sun-Ju Chung, A. Udalski +55

We report a giant exoplanet discovery in the microlensing event OGLE-2017-BLG-1049, which is a planet-host star mass ratio of and has a caustic crossin…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 7 cited

OGLE-2018-BLG-0799Lb: a Planet with Spitzer Parallax

Weicheng Zang, Yossi Shvartzvald, Andrzej Udalski +73

We report the discovery and analysis of a planet in the microlensing event OGLE-2018-BLG-0799. The planetary signal was observed by several ground-based telescopes, and the planet-…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 9 cited

OGLE-2018-BLG-1269Lb: A Jovian Planet With A Bright, Host

Youn Kil Jung, Andrew Gould, Andrzej Udalski +54

We report the discovery of a planet in the microlensing event OGLE-2018-BLG-1269, with planet-host mass ratio , i.e., times smaller than the Jupiter/Su…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 16 cited

A Gas Giant Planet in the OGLE-2006-BLG-284L Stellar Binary System

David P. Bennett, Andrzej Udalski, Ian A. Bond +32

We present the analysis of microlensing event OGLE-2006-BLG-284, which has a lens system that consists of two stars and a gas giant planet with a mass ratio of $q_p = (1.26\pm 0.19…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 18 cited

OGLE-2017-BLG-0406: Microlens Parallax Reveals Saturn-mass Planet orbiting M-dwarf Host in the Inner Galactic Disk

Yuki Hirao, David P. Bennett, Yoon-Hyun Ryu +93

We report the discovery and analysis of the planetary microlensing event OGLE-2017-BLG-0406, which was observed both from the ground and by the satellite in a solar…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 15 cited

One Planet or Two Planets? The Ultra-sensitive Extreme-magnification Microlensing Event KMT-2019-BLG-1953

Cheongho Han, Doeon Kim, Youn Kil Jung +48

We present the analysis of a very high-magnification () microlensing event KMT-2019-BLG-1953. A single-lens single-source (1L1S) model appears to approximately delineate…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 11 cited

OGLE-2013-BLG-0911Lb: A Secondary on the Brown-Dwarf Planet Boundary around an M-dwarf

Shota Miyazaki, Takahiro Sumi, David P. Bennett +92

We present the analysis of the binary-lens microlensing event OGLE-2013-BLG-0911. The best-fit solutions indicate the binary mass ratio of q~0.03 which differs from that reported i…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 15 cited

KMT-2019-BLG-0842Lb: A Cold Planet Below the Uranus/Sun Mass Ratio

Youn Kil Jung, Andrzej Udalski, Weicheng Zang +59

We report the discovery of a cold planet with a very low planet/host mass ratio of , which is similar to the ratio of Uranus/Sun ($q=4.37 \times 10^…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 12 cited

Candidate Brown-dwarf Microlensing Events with Very Short Timescales and Small Angular Einstein Radii

Cheongho Han, Chung-Uk Lee, Andrzej Udalski +62

Short-timescale microlensing events are likely to be produced by substellar brown dwarfs (BDs), but it is difficult to securely identify BD lenses based on only event timescales $t…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 32 cited

OGLE-2018-BLG-1700L: Microlensing Planet in Binary Stellar System

Cheongho Han, Chung-Uk Lee, Andrzej Udalski +58

We report the discovery of a planet in a binary that was discovered from the analysis of the microlensing event OGLE-2018-BLG-1700. We identify the triple nature of the lens from t…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 34 cited

OGLE-2018-BLG-1011L\lowercase{b,c}: Microlensing Planetary System with Two Giant Planets Orbiting a Low-mass Star

Cheongho Han, David P. Bennett, Andrzej Udalski +70

We report a multiplanetary system found from the analysis of microlensing event OGLE-2018-BLG-1011, for which the light curve exhibits a double-bump anomaly around the peak. We fin…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 3 cited

OGLE-2015-BLG-1649Lb: A gas giant planet around a low-mass dwarf

Masayuki Nagakane, Chien-Hsiu Lee, Naoki Koshimoto +66

We report the discovery of an exoplanet in microlensing event OGLE-2015-BLG-1649. The planet/host-star mass ratio is and the projected separation normalized…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 6 cited

An analysis of binary microlensing event OGLE-2015-BLG-0060

Y. Tsapras, A. Cassan, C. Ranc +83

We present the analysis of stellar binary microlensing event OGLE-2015-BLG-0060 based on observations obtained from 13 different telescopes. Intensive coverage of the anomalous par…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 17 cited

Parallax of OGLE-2018-BLG-0596: A Low-mass-ratio Planet around an M-dwarf

Youn Kil Jung, Andrew Gould, Andrzej Udalski +63

We report the discovery of a microlensing planet OGLE-2018-BLG-0596Lb, with preferred planet-host mass ratio . The planetary signal, which is chara…