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Systematic KMTNet Planetary Anomaly Search. XII. Complete Sample of 2017 Subprime Field Planets

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics 2025-04-30 v1 Astrophysics of Galaxies Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Abstract

We report the analysis of four unambiguous planets and one possible planet from the subprime fields (Γ1 hr1\Gamma \leq 1~{\rm hr}^{-1}) of the 2017 Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet) microlensing survey, to complete the KMTNet AnomalyFinder planetary sample for the 2017 subprime fields. They are KMT-2017-BLG-0849, KMT-2017-BLG-1057, OGLE-2017-BLG-0364, and KMT-2017-BLG-2331 (unambiguous), as well as KMT-2017-BLG-0958 (possible). For the four unambiguous planets, the mean planet-host mass ratios, qq, are (1.0,1.2,4.6,13)×104(1.0, 1.2, 4.6, 13) \times 10^{-4}, the median planetary masses are (6.4,24,76,171) M(6.4, 24, 76, 171)~M_{\oplus} and the median host masses are (0.19,0.57,0.49,0.40) M(0.19, 0.57, 0.49, 0.40)~M_{\odot} from a Bayesian analysis. We have completed the AnomalyFinder planetary sample from the first 4-year KMTNet data (2016--2019), with 112 unambiguous planets in total, which nearly tripled the microlensing planetary sample. The ``sub-Saturn desert'' (logq=[3.6,3.0]\log q = \left[-3.6, -3.0\right]) found in the 2018 and 2019 KMTNet samples is confirmed by the 2016 and 2017 KMTNet samples.

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@article{arxiv.2504.20155,
  title  = {Systematic KMTNet Planetary Anomaly Search. XII. Complete Sample of 2017 Subprime Field Planets},
  author = {Yuqian Gui and Weicheng Zang and Ruocheng Zhai and Yoon-Hyun Ryu and Andrzej Udalski and Hongjing Yang and Cheongho Han and Shude Mao and Michael D. Albrow and Sun-Ju Chung and Andrew Gould and Kyu-Ha Hwang and Youn Kil Jung and In-Gu Shin and Yossi Shvartzvald and Jennifer C. Yee 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 Mróz and Michał K. Szymański and Jan Skowron and Radosław Poleski and Igor Soszyński and Paweł Pietrukowicz and Szymon Kozłowski and Krzysztof Ulaczyk and Krzysztof A. Rybicki and Patryk Iwanek and Marcin Wrona and Mariusz Gromadzki and Hanyue Wang and Jiyuan Zhang and Renkun Kuang and Qiyue Qian and Wei Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.20155},
  year   = {2025}
}

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