Subjects: Astronomy >> Astrophysical processes submitted time 2023-02-19
Weicheng Zang
Kyu-Ha Hwang
Andrzej Udalski
Tianshu Wang
Wei Zhu
Takahiro Sumi
Jennifer C. Yee
Andrew Gould
Shude Mao
Xiangyu Zhang
Michael D. Albrow
Sun-Ju Chung
Cheongho Han
Youn Kil Jung
Yoon-Hyun Ryu
In-Gu Shin
Yossi Shvartzvald
Sang-Mok Cha
Dong-Jin Kim
Hyoun-Woo Kim
Abstract： In order to exhume the buried signatures of "missing planetary caustics" in the KMTNet data, we conducted a systematic anomaly search to the residuals from point-source point-lens fits, based on a modified version of the KMTNet EventFinder algorithm. This search reveals the lowest mass-ratio planetary caustic to date in the microlensing event OGLE-2019-BLG-1053, for which the planetary signal had not been noticed before. The planetary system has a planet-host mass ratio of $q = (1.25 \pm 0.13) \times 10^{-5}$. A Bayesian analysis yields estimates of the mass of the host star, $M_{\rm host} = 0.61_{-0.24}^{+0.29}~M_\odot$, the mass of its planet, $M_{\rm planet} = 2.48_{-0.98}^{+1.19}~M_{\oplus}$, the projected planet-host separation, $a_\perp = 3.4_{-0.5}^{+0.5}$ au, and the lens distance of $D_{\rm L} = 6.8_{-0.9}^{+0.6}$ kpc. The discovery of this very low mass-ratio planet illustrates the utility of our method and opens a new window for a large and homogeneous sample to study the microlensing planet-host mass-ratio function down to $q \sim 10^{-5}$.
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Subjects: Astronomy >> Astrophysical processes submitted time 2023-02-19
Weicheng Zang
Yossi Shvartzvald
Andrzej Udalski
Jennifer C. Yee
Chung-Uk Lee
Takahiro Sumi
Xiangyu Zhang
Hongjing Yang
Shude Mao
Sebastiano Calchi Novati
Andrew Gould
Wei Zhu
Charles A. Beichman
Geoffery Bryden
Sean Carey
B. Scott Gaudi
Calen B. Henderson
Przemek Mróz
Jan Skowron
Radoslaw Poleski
Abstract： 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 ground-based observations yield a constraint on the angular Einstein radius $\theta_{\rm E}$, and the microlensing parallax vector $\vec{\pi}_{\rm E}$, is strongly constrained by the Spitzer data. However, the 2019 Spitzer baseline data reveal systematics in the Spitzer photometry, so there is ambiguity in the magnitude of the parallax. In our preferred interpretation, a full Bayesian analysis using a Galactic model indicates that the planetary system is composed of an $M_{\rm planet} = 0.26_{-0.11}^{+0.22}~M_{J}$ planet orbiting an $M_{\rm host} = 0.093_{-0.038}^{+0.082}~M_{\odot}$, at a distance of $D_{\rm L} = 3.71_{-1.70}^{+3.24}$ kpc. An alternate interpretation of the data shifts the localization of the minima along the arc-shaped microlens parallax constraints. This, in turn, yields a more massive host with median mass of $0.13 {M_{\odot}}$ at a distance of 6.3 kpc. This analysis demonstrates the robustness of the osculating circles formalism, but shows that further investigation is needed to assess how systematics affect the specific localization of the microlens parallax vector and, consequently, the inferred physical parameters.
Peer Review Status:Awaiting Review
Subjects: Astronomy >> Astrophysical processes submitted time 2023-02-19
Amber Malpas
Michael D. Albrow
Jennifer C. Yee
Andrew Gould
Andrzej Udalski
Antonio Herrera Martin
Spitzer Team
Charles A. Beichman
Geoffery Bryden
Sebastiano Calchi Novati
Sean Carey
Calen B. Henderson
B. Scott Gaudi
Yossi Shvartzvald
Wei Zhu
KMTNet Collaboration
Sang-Mok Cha
Sun-Ju Chung
Cheongho Han
Kyu-Ha Hwang
Abstract： We report the analysis of microlensing event OGLE-2017-BLG-1038, observed by the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment, Korean Microlensing Telescope Network, and Spitzer telescopes. The event is caused by a giant source star in the Galactic Bulge passing over a large resonant binary lens caustic. The availability of space-based data allows the full set of physical parameters to be calculated. However, there exists an eightfold degeneracy in the parallax measurement. The four best solutions correspond to very-low-mass binaries near ($M_1 = 170^{+40}_{-50} M_J$ and $M_2 = 110^{+20}_{-30} M_J$), or well below ($M_1 = 22.5^{+0.7}_{-0.4} M_J$ and $M_2 = 13.3^{+0.4}_{-0.3} M_J$) the boundary between stars and brown dwarfs. A conventional analysis, with scaled uncertainties for Spitzer data, implies a very-low-mass brown dwarf binary lens at a distance of 2 kpc. Compensating for systematic Spitzer errors using a Gaussian process model suggests that a higher mass M-dwarf binary at 6 kpc is equally likely. A Bayesian comparison based on a galactic model favors the larger-mass solutions. We demonstrate how this degeneracy can be resolved within the next ten years through infrared adaptive-optics imaging with a 40 m class telescope.
Peer Review Status:Awaiting Review
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