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

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics 2020-07-29 v1 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Abstract

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 qp=(1.26±0.19)×103q_p = (1.26\pm 0.19) \times 10^{-3} to the primary. The mass ratio of the two stars is qs=0.289±0.011q_s = 0.289\pm 0.011, and their projected separation is ss=2.1±0.7s_s = 2.1\pm 0.7\,AU, while the projected separation of the planet from the primary is sp=2.2±0.8s_p = 2.2\pm 0.8\,AU. For this lens system to have stable orbits, the three-dimensional separation of either the primary and secondary stars or the planet and primary star must be much larger than that these projected separations. Since we do not know which is the case, the system could include either a circumbinary or a circumstellar planet. Because there is no measurement of the microlensing parallax effect or lens system brightness, we can only make a rough Bayesian estimate of the lens system masses and brightness. We find host star and planet masses of ML1=0.350.20+0.30MM_{L1} = 0.35^{+0.30}_{-0.20}\,M_\odot, ML2=0.100.06+0.09MM_{L2} = 0.10^{+0.09}_{-0.06}\,M_\odot, and mp=14482+126Mm_p = 144^{+126}_{-82}\,M_\oplus, and the KK-band magnitude of the combined brightness of the host stars is KL=19.71.0+0.7K_L = 19.7^{+0.7}_{-1.0}. The separation between the lens and source system will be 90\sim 90\,mas in mid-2020, so it should be possible to detect the host system with follow-up adaptive optics or Hubble Space Telescope observations.

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@article{arxiv.2005.07199,
  title  = {A Gas Giant Planet in the OGLE-2006-BLG-284L Stellar Binary System},
  author = {David P. Bennett and Andrzej Udalski and Ian A. Bond and Fumio Abe and Richard K. Barry and Aparna Bhattacharya and Martin Donachie and Hirosane Fujii and Akihiko Fukui and Yuki Hirao and Yoshitaka Itow and Kohei Kawasaki and Rintaro Kirikawa and Iona Kondo and Naoki Koshimoto and Man Cheung Alex Li and Yutaka Matsubara and Shota Miyazaki and Yasushi Muraki and Clément Ranc and Nicholas J. Rattenbury and Yuki Satoh and Hikaru Shoji and Takahiro Sumi and Daisuke Suzuki and Yuzuru Tanaka and Paul J. Tristram and Tsubasa Yamawaki and Atsunori Yonehara and Przemek Mroz and Radek Poleski and Michał K. Szymanski and Igor Soszynski and Łukasz Wyrzykowski and Krzysztof Ulaczyk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.07199},
  year   = {2020}
}