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We present the first microlensing candidate for a free-floating exoplanet-exomoon system, MOA-2011-BLG-262, with a primary lens mass of M_host ~ 4 Jupiter masses hosting a sub-Earth mass moon. The data are well fit by this exomoon model,…

We report the discovery and analysis of a planet in the microlensing event OGLE-2018-BLG-0799. The planetary signal was observed by several ground-based telescopes, and the planet-host mass ratio is $q = (2.65 \pm 0.16) \times 10^{-3}$. The…

We present an analysis of high angular resolution images of the microlensing target MOA-2007-BLG-192 using Keck adaptive optics and the Hubble Space Telescope. The planetary host star is robustly detected as it separates from the background…

We present the analysis of microlensing event OGLE-2006-BLG-284, which has a lens system that consists of two stars and a gas giant planet with a mass ratio of $q_p = (1.26\pm 0.19) \times 10^{-3}$ to the primary. The mass ratio of the two…

We show that Earth mass planets orbiting stars in the Galactic disk and bulge can be detected by monitoring microlensed stars in the Galactic bulge. The star and its planet act as a binary lens which generates a lightcurve which can differ…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-21 David P. Bennett , Sun Hong Rhie

The current searches for microlensing events towards the galactic bulge can be used to detect planets around the lensing stars. Their effect is a short-term modulation on the smooth lightcurve produced by the main lensing star. Current and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Joachim Wambsganss

We aim to find missing microlensing planets hidden in the unanalyzed lensing events of previous survey data. For this purpose, we conduct a systematic inspection of high-magnification microlensing events, with peak magnifications $A_{\rm…

We report the detection of sub-Saturn-mass planet MOA-2008-BLG-310Lb and argue that it is the strongest candidate yet for a bulge planet. Deviations from the single-lens fit are smoothed out by finite-source effects and so are not…

We report the discovery of a giant planet in event UKIRT-2017-BLG-001, detected by the UKIRT microlensing survey. The mass ratio between the planet and its host is $q=1.50_{-0.14}^{+0.17}\times10^{-3}$, about 1.5 times the Jupiter/Sun mass…

At $q=1.81\pm 0.20 \times 10^{-5}$, KMT-2018-BLG-0029Lb has the lowest planet-host mass ratio $q$ of any microlensing planet to date by more than a factor of two. Hence, it is the first planet that probes below the apparent "pile-up" at…

We report the discovery and analysis of the planetary microlensing event OGLE-2017-BLG-0406, which was observed both from the ground and by the ${\it Spitzer}$ satellite in a solar orbit. At high magnification, the anomaly in the light…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-29 Yuki Hirao , David P. Bennett , Yoon-Hyun Ryu , Naoki Koshimoto , Andrzej Udalski , Jennifer C. Yee , Takahiro Sumi , Ian A. Bond , Yossi Shvartzvald , Fumio Abe , Richard K. Barry , Aparna Bhattacharya , Martin Donachie , Akihiko Fukui , Yoshitaka Itow , Iona Kondo , Man Cheung Alex Li , Yutaka Matsubara , Taro Matsuo , Shota Miyazaki , Yasushi Muraki , Masayuki Nagakane , Clement Ranc , Nicholas J. Rattenbury , Haruno Suematsu , Hiroshi Shibai , Daisuke Suzuki , Paul J. Tristram , Atsunori Yonehara , J. Skowron , R. Poleski , P. Mroz , M. K. Szymanski , I. Soszynski , S. Kozlowski , P. Pietrukowicz , K. Ulaczyk , K. Rybicki , P. Iwanek , Michael D. Albrow , Sun-Ju Chung , Andrew Gould , Cheongho Han , Kyu-Ha Hwang , Youn Kil Jung , In-Gu Shin , Weicheng Zang , Sang-Mok Cha , Dong-Jin Kim , Hyoun-Woo Kim , Seung-Lee Kim , Chung-Uk Lee , Dong-Joo Lee , Yongseok Lee , Byeong-Gon Park , Richard W. Pogge , Charles A. Beichman , Geoffery Bryden , Sebastiano Calchi Novati , Sean Carey , B. Scott Gaudi , Calen B. Henderson , Wei Zhu , Etienne Bachelet , Greg Bolt , Grant Christie , Markus Hundertmark , Tim Natusch , Dan Maoz , Jennie McCormick , Rachel A. Street , Thiam-Guan Tan , Yiannis Tsapras , U. G. Jorgensen , M. Dominik , V. Bozza , J. Skottfelt , C. Snodgrass , S. Ciceri , R. Figuera Jaimes , D. F. Evans , N. Peixinho , T. C. Hinse , M. J. Burgdorf , J. Southworth , S. Rahvar , S. Sajadian , M. Rabus , C. von Essen , Y. I. Fujii , J. Campbell-White , S. Lowry , C. Helling , L. Mancini , L. Haikala , Ryo Kandori

The microlensing event OGLE-2017-BLG-1434 features a cold super-Earth planet which is one of eleven microlensing planets with a planet-host star mass ratio $q < 1 \times 10^{-4}$. We provide an additional mass-distance constraint on the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-15 J. W. Blackman , J. -P. Beaulieu , A. A. Cole , N. Koshimoto , A. Vandorou , A. Bhattacharya , J. -B. Marquette , D. P. Bennett

We present K2-2016-BLG-0005Lb, a densely sampled, planetary binary caustic-crossing microlensing event found from a blind search of data gathered from Campaign 9 of the Kepler K2 mission (K2C9). K2-2016-BLG-0005Lb is the first bound…

We present the analysis of MOA-2007-BLG-197Lb, the first brown dwarf companion to a Sun-like star detected through gravitational microlensing. The event was alerted and followed-up photometrically by a network of telescopes from the PLANET,…

We present the analysis of the microlensing event OGLE-2016-BLG-1227. The light curve of this short-duration event appears to be a single-lens event affected by severe finite-source effects. Analysis of the light curve based on single-lens…

We analyze five years of PLANET photometry of microlensing events toward the Galactic bulge to search for the short-duration deviations from single lens light curves that are indicative of the presence of planetary companions to the primary…

We report the discovery and analysis of a candidate triple-lens single-source (3L1S) microlensing event, OGLE-2019-BLG-1470. This event was first classified as a normal binary-lens single-source (2L1S) event, but a careful 2L1S modelling…