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KMT-2018-BLG-0029LB: A VERY LOW MASS-RATIO Spitzer MICROLENS PLANET
  • 저자
    Gould, Andrew
  • 저널명
    The Korean Astronomical Society
  • 발행년도
    2020
  • 권호
    V .53, N .1
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At q = 1.81 ± 0.20 × 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 q = 5-10 ×10-5. The event was observed by Spitzer, yielding a microlens-parallax πE measurement. Combined with a measurement of the Einstein radius θE from finite-source effects during the caustic crossings, these measurements imply masses of the host Mhost = 1.14+0.10-0.12 M and planet Mplanet = 7.59+0.75-0.69 M, system distance DL = 3.38+0.22-0.26 kpc and projected separation a = 4.27+0.21-0.23 AU. The blended light, which is substantially brighter than the microlensed source, is plausibly due to the lens and could be observed at high resolution immediately.