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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The KMTNet 2016 Data Release
H. -W. Kim, K. -H. Hwang, D. -J. Kim +18
We present Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet) light curves for microlensing-event candidates for the 2016 season, which covers an area of 97 sq.deg observed at cadences…
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…
Measurement of Source Star Colors with the K2C9-CFHT Multi-color Microlensing Survey
Weicheng Zang, Matthew T Penny, Wei Zhu +8
K2 Campaign 9 (K2C9) was the first space-based microlensing parallax survey capable of measuring microlensing parallaxes of free-floating planet candidate microlensing events. Simu…
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…
OGLE-2017-BLG-0329L: A Microlensing Binary Characterized with Dramatically Enhanced Precision Using Data from Space-based Observations
C. Han, S. Calchi Novati, A. Udalski +54
Mass measurements of gravitational microlenses require one to determine the microlens parallax $\pie$, but precise $\pie$ measurement, in many cases, is hampered due to the subtlet…
OGLE-2017-BLG-1130: The First Binary Gravitational Microlens Detected From Spitzer Only
Tianshu Wang, S. Calchi Novati, A. Udalski +36
We analyze the binary gravitational microlensing event OGLE-2017-BLG-1130 (mass ratio q~0.45), the first published case in which the binary anomaly was only detected by the Spitzer…
OGLE-2017-BLG-1434Lb: Eighth q < 1 * 10^-4 Mass-Ratio Microlens Planet Confirms Turnover in Planet Mass-Ratio Function
A. Udalski, Y. -H. Ryu, S. Sajadian +55
We report the discovery of a cold Super-Earth planet (m_p=4.4 +/- 0.5 M_Earth) orbiting a low-mass (M=0.23 +/- 0.03 M_Sun) M dwarf at projected separation a_perp = 1.18 +/- 0.10 AU…
OGLE-2017-BLG-0373Lb: A Jovian Mass-Ratio Planet Exposes A New Accidental Microlensing Degeneracy
J. Skowron, Y. -H. Ryu, K. -H. Hwang +30
We report the discovery of microlensing planet OGLE-2017-BLG-0373Lb. We show that while the planet-host system has an unambiguous microlens topology, there are two geometries withi…
The KMTNet/K2-C9 (Kepler) Data Release
H. -W. Kim, K. -H. Hwang, D. -J. Kim +18
We present Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet) light curves for microlensing-event candidates in the Kepler K2 C9 field having peaks within 3 effective timescales of the…
Spitzer Microlensing Parallax for OGLE-2016-BLG-1067: a sub-Jupiter Orbiting an M-dwarf in the Disk
S. Calchi Novati, D. Suzuki, A. Udalski +65
We report the discovery of a sub-Jupiter mass planet orbiting beyond the snow line of an M-dwarf most likely in the Galactic disk as part of the joint Spitzer and ground-based moni…