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KMT-2018-BLG-1743: Planetary Microlensing Event Occurring on Two Source Stars

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics 2021-09-01 v1 Astrophysics of Galaxies Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Abstract

We present the analysis of the microlensing event KMT-2018-BLG-1743. The light curve of the event, with a peak magnification Apeak800A_{\rm peak}\sim 800, exhibits two anomaly features, one around the peak and the other on the falling side of the light curve. An interpretation with a binary lens and a single source (2L1S) cannot describe the anomalies. By conducting additional modeling that includes an extra lens (3L1S) or an extra source (2L2S) relative to a 2L1S interpretation, we find that 2L2S interpretations with a planetary lens system and a binary source best explain the observed light curve with Δχ2188\Delta\chi^2\sim 188 and 91\sim 91 over the 2L1S and 3L1S solutions, respectively. Assuming that these Δχ2\Delta\chi^2 values are adequate for distinguishing the models, the event is the fourth 2L2S event and the second 2L2S planetary event. The 2L2S interpretations are subject to a degeneracy, resulting in two solutions with s>1.0s>1.0 (wide solution) and s<1.0s<1.0 (close solution). The masses of the lens components and the distance to the lens are (Mhost/M,Mplanet/MJ,DL/kpc)(0.190.111+0.27,0.250.14+0.34,6.481.03+0.94)(M_{\rm host}/M_\odot, M_{\rm planet}/M_{\rm J}, D_{\rm L}/{\rm kpc}) \sim (0.19^{+0.27}_{-0.111}, 0.25^{+0.34}_{-0.14}, 6.48^{+0.94}_{-1.03}) and (0.420.25+0.34,1.610.97+1.30,6.041.27+0.93)\sim (0.42^{+0.34}_{-0.25}, 1.61^{+1.30}_{-0.97}, 6.04^{+0.93}_{-1.27}) according to the wide and close solutions, respectively. The source is a binary composed of an early G dwarf and a mid M dwarf. The values of the relative lens-source proper motion expected from the two degenerate solutions, μwide2.3\mu_{\rm wide}\sim 2.3 mas yr1^{-1} and μclose4.1\mu_{\rm close} \sim 4.1 mas yr1^{-1}, are substantially different, and thus the degeneracy can be broken by resolving the lens and source from future high-resolution imaging observations.

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@article{arxiv.2107.00155,
  title  = {KMT-2018-BLG-1743: Planetary Microlensing Event Occurring on Two Source Stars},
  author = {Cheongho Han and Michael D. Albrow and Sun-Ju Chung and Andrew Gould and Kyu-Ha Hwang and Youn Kil Jung and Doeon Kim and Hyoun-Woo Kim and Chung-Uk Lee and Yoon-Hyun Ryu and In-Gu Shin and Yossi Shvartzvald and Jennifer C. Yee and Weicheng Zang and Sang-Mok Cha and Dong-Jin Kim and Seung-Lee Kim and Dong-Joo Lee and Yongseok Lee and Byeong-Gon Park and Richard W. Pogge},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.00155},
  year   = {2021}
}

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11 pages, 13 figures

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