KMT-2022-BLG-1818Lb,c: A Cold Super-Jupiter with a Saturn Sibling
Abstract
We present the discovery and analysis of the sixth microlensing two-planet system, KMT-2022-BLG-1818Lb,c, detected by a follow-up program targeting high-magnification events. Both planets are subject to the well-known ''Close/Wide'' degeneracy, although for the first planet, which has a super-Jovian mass ratio of in both solutions, the Close topology, with a normalized separation of , is clearly preferred by . However, contrary to all previous two-planet microlensing systems, the mass ratio for the second planet, , is substantially (factor of ) different for the Close and Wide topologies of the first planet. While this degeneracy is resolved in the present case due to high-cadence follow-up observations, the appearance of this new degeneracy indicates the need for caution in the analysis of future two-planet systems. A Bayesian analysis suggests that the host is likely a K-dwarf star in the Galactic disk. The first planet is probably a super-Jupiter on a Jupiter-like orbit, while the second planet is a Saturn-class planet on either a Mercury-like or Saturn-like orbit.
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@article{arxiv.2505.05093,
title = {KMT-2022-BLG-1818Lb,c: A Cold Super-Jupiter with a Saturn Sibling},
author = {Hongyu Li and Jiyuan Zhang and Cheongho Han and Weicheng Zang and Youn Kil Jung and Andrzej Udalski and Takahiro Sumi and Hongjing Yang and Renkun Kuang and Shude Mao and Michael D. Albrow and Sun-Ju Chung and Andrew Gould and Kyu-Ha Hwang and Yoon-Hyun Ryu and In-Gu Shin and Yossi Shvartzvald and Jennifer C. Yee and Sang-Mok Cha and Dong-Jin Kim and Seung-Lee Kim and Chung-Uk Lee and Dong-Joo Lee and Yongseok Lee and Byeong-Gon Park and Richard W. Pogge and Berto Monard and Yunyi Tang and Subo Dong and Zhuokai Liu and Grant Christie and Jennie McCormick and Tim Natusch and Qiyue Qian and Dan Maoz and Wei Zhu and Przemek Mróz and Michał K. Szymański and Jan Skowron and Radoslaw Poleski and Igor Soszyński and Paweł Pietrukowicz and Szymon Kozłowski and Krzysztof A. Rybicki and Patryk Iwanek and Krzysztof Ulaczyk and Marcin Wrona and Mariusz Gromadzki and Mateusz J. Mróz and Fumio Abe and Ken Bando and David P. Bennett and Aparna Bhattacharya and Ian A. Bond and Akihiko Fukui and Ryusei Hamada and Shunya Hamada and Naoto Hamasak and Yuki Hirao and Stela Ishitani Silva and Naoki Koshimoto and Yutaka Matsubara and Shota Miyazaki and Yasushi Muraki and Tutumi Nagai and Kansuke Nunota and Greg Olmschenk and Clément Ranc and Nicholas J. Rattenbury and Yuki Satoh and Daisuke Suzuki and Sean Terry and Paul J. Tristram and Aikaterini Vandorou and Hibiki Yama},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.05093},
year = {2025}
}
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