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Discovery and Mass Measurements of a Cold, 10-Earth Mass Planet and Its Host Star

We present the discovery and mass measurement of the cold, low-mass planet MOA-2009-BLG-266Lb, made with the gravitational microlensing method. This planet has a mass of m_p = 10.4 +- 1.7 Earth masses and orbits a star of mass M_* = 0.56 +-…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Y. Muraki , C. Han , D. P. Bennett , D. Suzuki , L. A. G. Monard , R. Street , U. G. Jorgensen , P. Kundurthy , J. Skowron , A. C. Becker , M. D. Albrow , P. Fouque , D. Heyrovsky , R. K. Barry , J. -P. Beaulieu , D. D. Wellnitz , I. A. Bond , T. Sumi , S. Dong , B. S. Gaudi , D. M. Bramich , M. Dominik , F. Abe , C. S. Botzler , M. Freeman , A. Fukui , K. Furusawa , F. Hayashi , J. B. Hearnshaw , S. Hosaka , Y. Itow , K. Kamiya , A. V. Korpela , P. M. Kilmartin , W. Lin , C. H. Ling , S. Makita , K. Masuda , Y. Matsubara , N. Miyake , K. Nishimoto , K. Ohnishi , Y. C. Perrott , N. J. Rattenbury , To. Saito , L. Skuljan , D. J. Sullivan , W. L. Sweatman , P. J. Tristram , K. Wada , P. C. M. Yock , G. W. Christie , D. L. DePoy , E. Gorbikov , A. Gould , S. Kaspi , C. -U. Lee , F. Mallia , D. Maoz , J. McCormick , D. Moorhouse , T. Natusch , B. -G. Park , R. W. Pogge , D. Polishook , A. Shporer , G. Thornley , J. C. Yee , A. Allan , P. Browne , K. Horne , N. Kains , C. Snodgrass , I. Steele , Y. Tsapras , V. Batista , C. S. Bennett , S. Brillant , J. A. R. Caldwell , A. Cassan , A. Cole , R. Corrales , Ch. Coutures , S. Dieters , D. Dominis Prester , J. Donatowicz , J. Greenhill , D. Kubas , J. -B. Marquette , R. Martin , J Menzies , K. C. Sahu , I. Waldman , A. Williams M. Zub , H. Bourhrous , Y. Matsuoka , T. Nagayama , N. Oi , Z. Randriamanakoto , V. Bozza , M. J. Burgdorf , S. Calchi Novati , S. Dreizler , F. Finet , M. Glitrup , K. Harpsoe , T. C. Hinse , M. Hundertmark , C. Liebig , G. Maier , L. Mancini , M. Mathiasen , S. Rahvar , D. Ricci , G. Scarpetta , J. Skottfelt , J. Surdej , J. Southworth , J. Wambsganss , F. Zimmer , A. Udalski , R. Poleski , L. Wyrzykowski , K. Ulaczyk , M. K. Szymanski , M. Kubiak , G. Pietrzynski , I. Soszynski

A Pair of Planets Likely in Mean-motion Resonance From Gravitational Microlensing

We combine statistical arguments and dynamical analysis to study the orbital configuration of the microlensing planetary system OGLE-2012-BLG-0026L. This system is known to host two massive planets, with both projected close to the Einstein…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-17 Sabrina Madsen , Wei Zhu

OGLE-2005-BLG-153: Microlensing Discovery and Characterization of A Very Low Mass Binary

The mass function and statistics of binaries provide important diagnostics of the star formation process. Despite this importance, the mass function at low masses remains poorly known due to observational difficulties caused by the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 K. -H. Hwang , A. Udalski , C. Han , Y. -H. Ryu , I. A. Bond , J. -P. Beaulieu , M. Dominik , K. Horne , A. Gould , B. S. Gaudi , M. Kubiak , M. K. Szymanski , G. Pietrzynski , I. Soszynski , O. Szewczyk , K. Ulaczyk , L. Wyrzykowski , F. Abe , C. S. Botzler , J. B. Hearnshaw , Y. Itow , K. Kamiya , P. M. Kilmartin , K. Masuda , Y. Matsubara , M. Motomura , Y. Muraki , S. Nakamura , K. Ohnishi , C. Okada , N. Rattenbury , To. Saito , T. Sako , M. Sasaki , D. J. Sullivan , T. Sumi , P. J. Tristram , J. N. Wood , P. C. M. Yock , T. Yoshioka , M. Albrow , D. P. Bennett , D. M. Bramich , S. Brillant , J. A. R. Caldwell , J. J. Calitz , A. Cassan , K. H. Cook , E. Corrales , C. Coutures , M. Desort , S. Dieters , D. Dominis , J. Donatowicz , P. Fouque , J. Greenhill , K. Harpsoe , K. Hill , M. Hoffman , U. G. Jorgensen , S. Kane , D. Kubas , R. Martin , J. -B. Marquette , P. Meintjes , J. Menzies , K. Pollard , K. Sahu , I. Steele , C. Vinter , J. Wambsganss , A. Williams , K. Woller , M. Burgdorf , C. Snodgrass , M. Bode , D. L. Depoy , C. -U. Lee , B. -G. Park , R. W. Pogge

Microlensing Detections of Planets in Binary Stellar Systems

We demonstrate that microlensing can be used for detecting planets in binary stellar systems. This is possible because in the geometry of planetary binary systems where the planet orbits one of the binary component and the other binary star…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dong-Wook Lee , Chung-Uk Lee , Byeong-Gon Park , Sun-Ju Chung , Young-Soo Kim , Ho-Il Kim , Cheongho Han

Precise mass measurement of OGLE-2013-BLG-0132/MOA-2013-BLG-148: a Saturn mass planet orbiting an M-dwarf

We revisit the planetary microlensing event OGLE-2013-BLG-0132/MOA-2013-BLG-148 using Keck adaptive optics imaging in 2013 with NIRC2 and in 2020, 7.4 years after the event, with OSIRIS. The 2020 observations yield a source and lens…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-01 Natalia E. Rektsini , Virginie Batista , Clement Ranc , David P. Bennett , Jean-Philippe Beaulieu , Joshua W. Blackman , Andrew A. Cole , Sean K. Terry , Naoki Koshimoto , Aparna Bhattacharya , Aikaterini Vandorou , Thomas J. Plunkett , Jean-Baptiste Marquette

KMT-2024-BLG-1044L: A sub-Uranus microlensing planet around a host at the star-brown dwarf mass boundary

We analysed microlensing data to uncover the nature of the anomaly that appeared near the peak of the short-timescale microlensing event KMT-2024-BLG-1044. Despite the anomaly's brief duration of less than a day, it was densely observed…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-11 Cheongho Han , Yoon-Hyun Ryu , Chung-Uk Lee , Andrew Gould , Michael D. Albrow , Sun-Ju Chung , Kyu-Ha Hwang , Youn Kil Jung , Yossi Shvartzvald , In-Gu Shin , Jennifer C. Yee , Hongjing Yang , Weicheng Zang , Doeon Kim , Dong-Jin Kim , Byeong-Gon Park , Richard W. Pogge

OGLE-2014-BLG-1186: gravitational microlensing providing evidence for a planet orbiting the foreground star or for a close binary source?

(abridged) Using the particularly long gravitational microlensing event OGLE-2014-BLG-1186 with a time-scale $t_\mathrm{E}$ ~ 300 d, we present a methodology for identifying the nature of localised deviations from single-lens point-source…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-27 M. Dominik , E. Bachelet , V. Bozza , R. A. Street , C. Han , M. Hundertmark , A. Udalski , D. M. Bramich , K. A. Alsubai , S. Calchi Novati , S. Ciceri , G. D'Ago , R. Figuera Jaimes , T. Haugbølle , T. C. Hinse , K. Horne , U. G. Jørgensen , D. Juncher , N. Kains , H. Korhonen , L. Mancini , J. Menzies , A. Popovas , M. Rabus , S. Rahvar , G. Scarpetta , R. Schmidt , J. Skottfelt , C. Snodgrass , J. Southworth , D. Starkey , I. A. Steele , J. Surdej , Y. Tsapras , J. Wambsganss , O. Wertz , P. Pietrukowicz , M. K. Szymański , P. Mróz , J. Skowron , I. Soszyński , K. Ulaczyk , R. Poleski

UKIRT-2017-BLG-001Lb: A giant planet detected through the dust

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…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-25 Y. Shvartzvald , S. Calchi Novati , B. S. Gaudi , G. Bryden , D. M. Nataf , M. T. Penny , C. Beichman , C. B. Henderson , S. Jacklin , E. F. Schlafly , M. J. Huston

Mass measurement of a single unseen star and planetary detection efficiency for OGLE 2007-BLG-050

We analyze OGLE-2007-BLG-050, a high magnification microlensing event (A ~ 432) whose peak occurred on 2 May, 2007, with pronounced finite-source and parallax effects. We compute planet detection efficiencies for this event in order to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-19 V. Batista , Subo Dong , A. Gould , J. P. Beaulieu , A. Cassan , G. W. Christie , C. Han , A. Udalski , W. Allen , D. L. DePoy , A. Gal-Yam , B. S. Gaudi , B. Johnson , S. Kaspi , C. U. Lee , D. Maoz , J. McCormick , I. McGreer , B. Monard , T. Natusch , E. Ofek , B. -G. Park , R. W. Pogge , D. Polishook , A. Shporer , M. D. Albrow , D. P. Bennett , S. Brillant , M. Bode , D. M. Bramich , M. Burgdorf , J. A. R. Caldwell , H. Calitz , A. Cole , K. H. Cook , Ch. Coutures , S. Dieters , M. Dominik , D. Dominis Prester , J. Donatowicz , P. Fouqué , J. Greenhill , M. Hoffman , K. Horne , U. G. Jørgensen , N. Kains , S. Kane , D. Kubas , J. B. Marquette , R. Martin , P. Meintjes , J. Menzies , K. R. Pollard , K. C. Sahu , C. Snodgrass , I. Steele , Y. Tsapras , J. Wambsganss , A. Williams , M. Zub , Ł. Wyrzykowski , M. Kubiak , M. K. Szymański , G. Pietrzyński , I. Soszyński , O. Szewczyk , K. Ulaczyk , F. Abe , I. A. Bond , A. Fukui , K. Furusawa , J. B. Hearnshaw , S. Holderness , Y. Itow , K. Kamiya , P. M. Kilmartin , A. Korpela , W. Lin , C. H. Ling , K. Masuda , Y. Matsubara , N. Miyake , Y. Muraki , M. Nagaya , K. Ohnishi , T. Okumura , Y. C. Perrott , N. Rattenbury , To. Saito , T. Sako , L. Skuljan , D. Sullivan , T. Sumi , W. L. Sweatman , P. J. Tristram , P. C. M. Yock

MOA-2016-BLG-227Lb: A Massive Planet Characterized by Combining Lightcurve Analysis and Keck AO Imaging

We report the discovery of a microlensing planet --- MOA-2016-BLG-227Lb --- with a large planet/host mass ratio of $q \simeq 9 \times 10^{-3}$. This event was located near the $K2$ Campaign 9 field that was observed by a large number of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Naoki Koshimoto , Yossi Shvartzvald , David Bennett , Matthew Penny , Markus Hundertmark , Ian A. Bond , Weicheng Zang , Calen Henderson , Daisuke Suzuki , Nicholas J. Rattenbury , Takahiro Sumi , Fumio Abe , Yuichiro Asakura , Aparna Bhattacharya , Akihiko Fukui , Yuki Hirao , Yoshitaka Itow , M. C. A. Li , C. Ling , Kimiaki Masuda , Y. Matsubara , Taro Matsuo , Yasushi Muraki , Masayuki Nagakane , Kouji Ohnishi , C. Ranc , To. Saito , A. Sharan , Hiroshi Shibai , Denis Sullivan , P. Tristram , A. Yonehara , Christopher Gelino , Charles Beichman , Jean-Philippe Beaulieu , J. -B. Marquette , Virginie Batista , M. Friedmann , N. Hallakoun , Shai Kaspi , Dani Maoz , G. Bryden , Sebastiano Calchi Novati , Steve Howell , T. Wang , Shude Mao , Pascal Fouque , Heidi Korhonen , Uffe Jorgensen , Rachel Street , Yiannis Tsapras , Martin Dominik , Eamonn Kerins , Arnaud Cassan , Colin Snodgrass , Etienne Bachelet , Valerio Bozza , D. M. Bramich

A New Non-Planetary Interpretation of the Microlensing Event OGLE-2013-BLG-0723

Recently, the discovery of a Venus-mass planet orbiting a brown-dwarf host in a binary system was reported from the analysis of the microlensing event OGLE-2013-BLG-0723. We reanalyze the event considering the possibility of other…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-06 Cheongho Han , David P. Bennett , Andrzej Udalski , Youn Kil Jung

A Newly Identified Degeneracy Keeps the Planetary Interpretation Viable for OGLE-2011-BLG-0950

The microlensing event OGLE-2011-BLG-0950 exhibits the well-known ``Planet/Binary'' degeneracy, in which distinct lens configurations produce similar light curves but imply substantially different mass ratios between the lens components. A…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-21 Jiyuan Zhang , Weicheng Zang , Andrzej Udalski , Hongjing Yang , Shude Mao , Michał K. Szymański , Igor Soszyński , Radoslaw Poleski , Krzysztof Ulaczyk , Paweł Pietrukowicz , Szymon Kozłowski , Jan Skowron , Przemek Mróz , Sean K. Terry , Andrew Gould

Systematic KMTNet Planetary Anomaly Search, Paper III: One Wide-Orbit Planet And Two Stellar Binaries

Only a few wide-orbit planets around old stars have been detected, which limits our statistical understanding of this planet population. Following the systematic search for planetary anomalies in microlensing events found by the Korea…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Hanyue Wang , Weicheng Zang , Wei Zhu , Kyu-Ha Hwang , Andrzej Udalski , Andrew Gould , Cheongho Han , Michael D. Albrow , Sun-Ju Chung , Youn Kil Jung , Doeon Kim , Yoon-Hyun Ryu , In-Gu Shin , Yossi Shvartzvald , Jennifer C. Yee , 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 , Radoslaw Poleski , Przemek Mróz , Jan Skowron , Michał K. Szymański , Igor Soszyński , Paweł Pietrukowicz , Szymon Kozłowski , Krzysztof Ulaczyk , Krzysztof A. Rybicki , Patryk Iwanek , Marcin Wrona , Mariusz Gromadzki , Hongjing Yang , Shude Mao , Xiangyu Zhang

A sub-Saturn Mass Planet, MOA-2009-BLG-319Lb

We report the gravitational microlensing discovery of a sub-Saturn mass planet, MOA-2009-BLG-319Lb, orbiting a K or M-dwarf star in the inner Galactic disk or Galactic bulge. The high cadence observations of the MOA-II survey discovered…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 N. Miyake , T. Sumi , Subo Dong , R. Street , L. Mancini , A. Gould , D. P. Bennett , Y. Tsapras , J. C. Yee , M. D. Albrow , I. A. Bond , P. Fouque , P. Browne , C. Han , C. Snodgrass , F. Finet , K. Furusawa , K. Harpsoe , W. Allen , M. Hundertmark , M. Freeman , D. Suzuki , F. Abe , C. S. Botzler , D. Douchin , A. Fukui , F. Hayashi , J. B. Hearnshaw , S. Hosaka , Y. Itow , K. Kamiya , P. M. Kilmartin , A. Korpela , W. Lin , C. H. Ling , S. Makita , K. Masuda , Y. Matsubara , Y. Muraki , T. Nagayama , K. Nishimoto , K. Ohnishi , Y. C. Perrott , N. Rattenbury , To. Saito , L. Skuljan , D. J. Sullivan , W. L. Sweatman , P. J. Tristram , K. Wada , P. C. M. Yock , The MOA Collaboration , G. Bolt , M. Bos , G. W. Christie , D. L. DePoy , J. Drummond , A. Gal-Yam , B. S. Gaudi , E. Gorbikov , D. Higgins , K. -H. Hwang J. Janczak , S. Kaspi , C. -U. Lee , J. -R. Koo , S. Koz lowski , Y. Lee , F. Mallia , A. Maury , D. Maoz , J. McCormick , L. A. G. Monard , D. Moorhouse , J. A. Mu~noz , T. Natusch , E. O. Ofek , R. W. Pogge , D. Polishook , R. Santallo , A. Shporer , O. Spector , G. Thornley , The Micro FUN Collaboration , A. Allan , D. M. Bramich , K. Horne , N. Kains , I. Steele , The RoboNet Collaboration , V. Bozza , M. J. Burgdorf , S. Calchi Novati , M. Dominik , S. Dreizler , M. Glitrup , F. V. Hessman , T. C. Hinse , U. G. Jorgensen , C. Liebig , G. Maier , M. Mathiasen , S. Rahvar , D. Ricci , G. Scarpetta , J. Skottfelt , J. Southworth , J. Surdej , J. Wambsganss , F. Zimmer , The MiNDSTEp Consortium , V. Batista , J. P. Beaulieu , S. Brillant , A. Cassan , A. Cole , E. Corrales , Ch. Coutures , S. Dieters , J. Greenhill , D. Kubas , J. Menzies , The PLANET Collaboration

OGLE-2014-BLG-0319: A Sub-Jupiter-Mass Planetary Event Encountered Degeneracy with Different Mass Ratios and Lens-Source Relative Proper Motions

We report the discovery of a sub-Jovian-mass planet, OGLE-2014-BLG-0319Lb. The characteristics of this planet will be added into a future extended statistical analysis of the Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics (MOA) collaboration.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-16 Shota Miyazaki , Daisuke Suzuki , Andrzej Udalski , Naoki Koshimoto , David P. Bennett , Nicholas J. Rattenbury , Takahiro Sumi , Fumio Abe , Richard K. Barry , Aparna Bhattacharya , Ian A. Bond , Akihiko Fukui , Hirosane Fujii , Yuki Hirao , Stela Silva , Yoshitaka Itow , Rintaro Kirikawa , Iona Kondo , Brandon Munford , Y. Matsubara , Sho Matsumoto , Yasushi Muraki , Arisa Okamura , Greg Olmschenk , Clément Ranc , Yuki K. Satoh , Taiga Toda , P. J. Tristram , Hibiki Yama , A. Yonehara , Radek Poleski , Przemek Mroz , Jan Skowron , Michal Szymanski , Igor Soszynski , Pawel Pietrukowicz , Syzmon Kozlowski , Krzysztof Ulaczyk , Lukasz Wyrzykowski

KMT-2015-1b: a Giant Planet Orbiting a Low-mass Dwarf Host Star Discovered by a New High-cadence Microlensing Survey with a Global Telescope Network

We report the discovery of an extrasolar planet, KMT-2015-1b, that was detected using the microlensing technique. The planetary lensing event was observed by KMTNet survey that has commenced in 2015. With dense coverage by using network of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-21 K. -H. Hwang , C. Han , J. -Y. Choi , H. Park , Y. K. Jung , I. -G. Shin , M. D. Albrow , A. Gould , V. Bozza , B. -G. Park , S. -L. Kim , C. -U. Lee , S. -M. Cha , D. -J. Kim , Y. Lee

The First Planetary Microlensing Event with Two Microlensed Source Stars

We present the analysis of microlensing event MOA-2010-BLG-117, and show that the light curve can only be explained by the gravitational lensing of a binary source star system by a star with a Jupiter mass ratio planet. It was necessary to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-23 D. P. Bennett , A. Udalski , C. Han , I. A. Bond , J. -P. Beaulieu , J. Skowron , B. S. Gaudi , N. Koshimoto , F. Abe , Y. Asakura , R. K. Barry , A. Bhattacharya , M. Donachie , P. Evans , A. Fukui , Y. Hirao , Y. Itow , M. C. A. Li , C. H. Ling , K. Masuda , Y. Matsubara , Y. Muraki , M. Nagakane , K. Ohnishi , H. Oyokawa , C. Ranc , N. J. Rattenbury , M. K. Rosenthal , To. Saito , A. Sharan , D. J. Sullivan , T. Sumi , D. Suzuki , P. J. Tristram , A. Yonehara , M. K. Szymanski , R. Poleski , I. Soszynski , K. Ulaczyk , L. Wyrzykowski , D. DePoy , A. Gould , R. W. Pogge , J. C. Yee , M. D. Albrow , E. Bachelet , V. Batista , R. Bowens-Rubin , S. Brillant , J. A. R. Caldwell , A. Cole , C. Coutures , S. Dieters , D. Dominis Prester , J. Donatowicz , P. Fouque , K. Horne , M. Hundertmark , N. Kains , S. R. Kane , J. -B. Marquette , J. Menzies , K. R. Pollard , C. Ranc , K. C. Sahu , J. Wambsganss , A. Williams , M. Zub

OGLE-2016-BLG-1093Lb: A Sub-Jupiter-mass Spitzer Planet Located in Galactic Bulge

OGLE-2016-BLG-1093 is a planetary microlensing event that is part of the statistical $Spitzer$ microlens parallax sample. The precise measurement of the microlens parallax effect for this event, combined with the measurement of finite…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-18 In-Gu Shin , Jennifer C. Yee , Kyu-Ha Hwang , Andrew Gould , Andrzej Udalski , Ian A. Bond , Michael D. Albrow , Sun-Ju Chung , Cheongho Han , Youn Kil Jung , Hyoun Woo Kim , Yoon-Hyun Ryu , Yossi Shvartzvald , Weicheng Zang , Sang-Mok Cha , Dong-Jin Kim , Seung-Lee Kim , Chung-Uk Lee , Dong-Joo Lee , Yongseok Lee , Byeong-Gon Park , Richard W. Pogge , Przemek Mróz , Michał K. Szymański , Jan Skowron , Radek Poleski , Igor Soszyński , Paweł Pietrukowicz , Szymon Kozłowski , Krzysztof Ulaczyk , Charles A. Beichman , Geoffery Bryden , Sebastiano Calchi Novati , Sean Carey , B. Scott Gaudi , Calen B. Henderson , Wei Zhu , Fumio Abe , Richard K. Barry , David P. Bennett , Aparna Bhattacharya , Hirosane Fujii , Akihiko Fukui , Yuki Hirao , Yoshitaka Itow , Rintaro Kirikawa , Naoki Koshimoto , Iona Kondo , Yutaka Matsubara , Sho Matsumoto , Shota Miyazaki , Yasushi Muraki , Greg Olmschenk , Arisa Okamura , Clément Ranc , Nicholas J. Rattenbury , Yuki Satoh , Stela Ishitani Silva , Takahiro Sumi , Daisuke Suzuki , Taiga Toda , Paul J. Tristram , Aikaterini Vandorou , Hibiki Yama

KMT-2021-BLG-1898: Planetary microlensing event involved with binary source stars

The light curve of the microlensing event KMT-2021-BLG-1898 exhibits a short-term central anomaly with double-bump features that cannot be explained by the usual binary-lens or binary-source interpretations. With the aim of interpreting the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-03 Cheongho Han , Andrew Gould , Doeon Kim , Youn Kil Jung , Michael D. Albrow , Sun-Ju Chung , Kyu-Ha Hwang , Chung-Uk Lee , Yoon-Hyun Ryu , In-Gu Shin , Yossi Shvartzvald , Jennifer C. Yee , Weicheng Zang , Sang-Mok Cha , Dong-Jin Kim , Seung-Lee Kim , Dong-Joo Lee , Yongseok Lee , Byeong-Gon Park , Richard W. Pogge

A frozen super-Earth orbiting a star at the bottom of the Main Sequence

We observed the microlensing event MOA-2007-BLG-192 at high angular resolution in JHKs with the NACO adaptive optics system on the VLT while the object was still amplified by a factor 1.23 and then at baseline 18 months later. We analyzed…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-03 D. Kubas , J. P. Beaulieu , D. P. Bennett , A. Cassan , A. Cole , J. Lunine , J. B. Marquette , S. Dong , A. Gould , T. Sumi , V. Batista , P. Fouque , S. Brillant , S. Dieters , C. Coutures , J. Greenhill , I. Bond , T. Nagayama , A. Udalski , E. Pompei , D. E. A. Nuernberger , J. B. Le Bouquin