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2017AJ....154..133H - Astron. J., 154, 133-133 (2017/October-0)

OGLE-2016-BLG-0263Lb: microlensing detection of a very low-mass binary companion through a repeating event channel.

HAN C., UDALSKI A., GOULD A., BOND I.A., ALBROW M.D., CHUNG S.-J., JUNG Y.K., RYU Y.-H., SHIN I.-G., YEE J.C., ZHU W., CHA S.-M., KIM S.-L., KIM D.-J., LEE C.-U., LEE Y., PARK B.-G. (The KMTNet Collaboration), SKOWRON J., MROZ P., PIETRUKOWICZ P., KOZLOWSKI S., POLESKI R., SZYMANSKI M.K., SOSZYNSKI I., ULACZYK K., PAWLAK M. (The OGLE Collaboration), ABE F., ASAKURA Y., BARRY R., BENNETT D.P., BHATTACHARYA A., DONACHIE M., EVANS P., FUKUI A., HIRAO Y., ITOW Y., KOSHIMOTO N., LI M.C.A., LING C.H., MASUDA K., MATSUBARA Y., MURAKI Y., NAGAKANE M., OHNISHI K., RANC C., RATTENBURY N.J., SAITO T., SHARAN A., SULLIVAN D.J., SUMI T., SUZUKI D., TRISTRAM P.J., YAMADA T., YAMADA T., YONEHARA A. (The MOA Collaboration)

Abstract (from CDS):

We report the discovery of a planet-mass companion to the microlens OGLE-2016-BLG-0263L. Unlike most low-mass companions that were detected through perturbations to the smooth and symmetric light curves produced by the primary, the companion was discovered through the channel of a repeating event, in which the companion itself produced its own single-mass light curve after the event produced by the primary had ended. Thanks to the continuous coverage of the second peak by high-cadence surveys, the possibility of the repeating nature due to source binarity is excluded with a 96% confidence level. The mass of the companion estimated by a Bayesian analysis is Mp=4.1–2.5+6.5 MJ. The projected primary-companion separation is a⊥=6.5–1.9+1.3 au. The ratio of the separation to the snow-line distance of a⊥/asl∼15.4 corresponds to the region beyond Neptune, the outermost planet of the solar system. We discuss the importance of high-cadence surveys in expanding the range of microlensing detections of low-mass companions and future space-based microlensing surveys.

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Journal keyword(s): brown dwarfs - gravitational lensing: micro - planetary systems - planetary systems

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