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OGLE-2018-BLG-0532Lb: Cold Neptune With Possible Jovian Sibling

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics 2020-10-07 v1

Abstract

We report the discovery of the planet OGLE-2018-BLG-0532Lb, with very obvious signatures in the light curve that lead to an estimate of the planet-host mass ratio q=Mplanet/Mhost1×104q=M_{\rm planet}/M_{\rm host}\simeq 1\times10^{-4}. Although there are no obvious systematic residuals to this double-lens/single-source (2L1S) fit, we find that χ2\chi^2 can be significantly improved by adding either a third lens (3L1S, Δχ2=81\Delta\chi^2=81) or second source (2L2S, Δχ2=65\Delta\chi^2=65) to the lens-source geometry. After thorough investigation, we conclude that we cannot decisively distinguish between these two scenarios and therefore focus on the robustly-detected planet. However, given the possible presence of a second planet, we investigate to what degree and with what probability such additional planets may affect seemingly single-planet light curves. Our best estimates for the properties of the lens star and the secure planet are: a host mass M0.25MM\sim 0.25\,M_\odot, system distance DL1D_L\sim 1\,kpc and planet mass mp,1=8Mm_{p,1}= 8\,M_\oplus with projected separation a1,=1.4a_{1,\perp}=1.4\,au. However, there is a relatively bright I=18.6I=18.6 (and also relatively blue) star projected within <50<50\,mas of the lens, and if future high-resolution images show that this is coincident with the lens, then it is possible that it is the lens, in which case, the lens would be both more massive and more distant than the best-estimated values above.

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@article{arxiv.1905.08148,
  title  = {OGLE-2018-BLG-0532Lb: Cold Neptune With Possible Jovian Sibling},
  author = {Yoon-Hyun Ryu and Andrzej Udalski and Jennifer C. Yee and Matthew T. Penny and Weicheng Zang and Michael D. Albrow and Sun-Ju Chung and Andrew Gould and Cheongho Han and Kyu-Ha Hwang and Youn Kil Jung and In-Gu Shin and Yossi Shvartzvald and Sang-Mok Cha and Dong-Jin Kim and Hyoun-Woo 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 Przemek Mroz and Michal K. Szymanski and Jan Skowron and Radek Poleski and Igor Soszynski and Pawel Pietrukowicz and Szymon Kozlowski and Krzysztof Ulaczyk and Krzysztof A. Rybicki and Patryk Iwanek and Marcin Wrona and Shude Mao and Pascal Fouque and Wei Zhu and Tianshu Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.08148},
  year   = {2020}
}

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48 pages, 9 figures, 7 tables