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Characterizing Microlensing Planetary System OGLE-2014-BLG-0676L with High-Resolution Image Constrained Light Curve Modeling

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics 2026-07-20 v1 Astrophysics of Galaxies

Abstract

We present an analysis that incorporates high-resolution Keck adaptive optics (AO) imaging into microlensing light-curve modeling for the planetary microlensing event OGLE-2014-BLG-0676. Using Keck AO observations obtained 6.3 years after the event, we directly resolved the lens and source. The Keck images reveal a tension, in that the KK-band source flux is 0.52±0.220.52 \pm 0.22 magnitudes brighter than predicted by previously reported light-curve models. By incorporating the Keck imaging constraints into the light-curve modeling, we find a host star mass of Mhost=0.600.14+0.17MM_{\rm host} = 0.60^{+0.17}_{-0.14}\,M_{\odot}, a lens distance of DL=1.880.35+0.63D_{\rm L} = 1.88^{+0.63}_{-0.35} kpc, a planet mass of mp=3.110.63+1.11MJm_{\rm p} = 3.11^{+1.11}_{-0.63}\,M_{\rm J}, and a projected separation of a=2.040.35+0.44a_{\perp} = 2.04^{+0.44}_{-0.35} au and a=3.720.72+0.92a_{\perp} = 3.72^{+0.92}_{-0.72} au for the close and wide solution, respectively. These results demonstrate the power of combining high-angular-resolution imaging with microlensing light-curve modeling to mitigate potential systematic effects and modeling degeneracies, enabling robust determinations of the physical properties of microlensing planetary systems. The results presented here can be confirmed by future observations from the \textit{Roman}'s Galactic Plane Survey.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2607.18408,
  title  = {Characterizing Microlensing Planetary System OGLE-2014-BLG-0676L with High-Resolution Image Constrained Light Curve Modeling},
  author = {Asahi Idei and Naoki Koshimoto and Daisuke Suzuki and Kansuke Nunota and David P. Bennett and Ian A. Bond and Jean-Philippe Beaulieu and Takahiro Sumi and Aparna Bhattacharya and Joshua W. Blackman and Ryusei Hamada and Tsutsumi Nagai and Takuto Tamaoki and Sean K. Terry and Aikaterini Vandorou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.18408},
  year   = {2026}
}

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Accepted for publication in AJ