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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 $…
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…
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…
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-…
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 $q_p = (1.26\pm 0.19…
OGLE-2017-BLG-0406: Microlens Parallax Reveals Saturn-mass Planet orbiting M-dwarf Host in the Inner Galactic Disk
Yuki Hirao, David P. Bennett, Yoon-Hyun Ryu +93
We report the discovery and analysis of the planetary microlensing event OGLE-2017-BLG-0406, which was observed both from the ground and by the satellite in a solar…
One Planet or Two Planets? The Ultra-sensitive Extreme-magnification Microlensing Event KMT-2019-BLG-1953
Cheongho Han, Doeon Kim, Youn Kil Jung +48
We present the analysis of a very high-magnification () microlensing event KMT-2019-BLG-1953. A single-lens single-source (1L1S) model appears to approximately delineate…
OGLE-2013-BLG-0911Lb: A Secondary on the Brown-Dwarf Planet Boundary around an M-dwarf
Shota Miyazaki, Takahiro Sumi, David P. Bennett +92
We present the analysis of the binary-lens microlensing event OGLE-2013-BLG-0911. The best-fit solutions indicate the binary mass ratio of q~0.03 which differs from that reported i…
KMT-2019-BLG-0842Lb: A Cold Planet Below the Uranus/Sun Mass Ratio
Youn Kil Jung, Andrzej Udalski, Weicheng Zang +59
We report the discovery of a cold planet with a very low planet/host mass ratio of , which is similar to the ratio of Uranus/Sun ($q=4.37 \times 10^…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Spectroscopic Mass and Host-star Metallicity Measurements for Newly Discovered Microlensing Planet OGLE-2018-BLG-0740Lb
Cheongho Han, Jennifer C. Yee, Andrzej Udalski +63
We report the discovery of the microlensing planet OGLE-2018-BLG-0740Lb. The planet is detected with a very strong signal of , but the interpretation of the signal s…
The 2L1S/1L2S Degeneracy for Two Microlensing Planet Candidates Discovered by the KMTNet Survey in 2017
I. -G. Shin, J. C. Yee, A. Gould +46
We report two microlensing planet candidates discovered by the KMTNet survey in . However, both events have the 2L1S/1L2S degeneracy, which is an obstacle to claiming the dis…