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2021AJ....161..126R - Astron. J., 161, 126-126 (2021/March-0)

KMT-2017-BLG-2820 and the nature of the free-floating planet population.

RYU Y.-H., MROZ P., GOULD A., HWANG K.-H., KIM H.-W., YEE J.C., ALBROW M.D., CHUNG S.-J., JUNG Y.K., SHIN I.-G., SHVARTZVALD Y., ZANG W., CHA S.-M., KIM D.-J., KIM S.-L., LEE C.-U., LEE D.-J., LEE Y., PARK B.-G., HAN C., POGGE R.W. (The KMTNet Collaboration), UDALSKI A., POLESKI R., SKOWRON J., SZYMANSKI M.K., SOSZYNSKI I., PIETRUKOWICZ P., KOZLOWSKI S., ULACZYK K., RYBICKI K.A., IWANEK P. (The OGLE Collaboration)

Abstract (from CDS):

We report a new free-floating planet (FFP) candidate, KMT-2017-BLG-2820, with Einstein radius θE ≃ 6 µas, lens-source relative proper motion µrel ≃ 8 mas yr–1, and Einstein timescale tE = 6.5 hr. It is the third FFP candidate found in an ongoing study of giant-source finite-source point-lens (FSPL) events in the KMTNet database and the sixth FSPL FFP candidate overall. We find no significant evidence for a host. Based on their timescale distributions and detection rates, we argue that five of these six FSPL FFP candidates are drawn from the same population as the six point-source point-lens (PSPL) FFP candidates found by Mroz et al. in the OGLE-IV database. The θE distribution of the FSPL FFPs implies that they are either sub-Jovian planets in the bulge or super-Earths in the disk. However, the apparent "Einstein desert" (10 <= θE/µas <= 30) would argue for the latter. Whether each of the 12 (six FSPL and six PSPL) FFP candidates is truly an FFP or simply a very wide-separation planet can be determined at first adaptive optics (AO) light on 30 m telescopes, and earlier for some. If the latter, a second epoch of AO observations could measure the projected planet-host separation with a precision of O (10au). At the present time, the balance of evidence favors the unbound-planet hypothesis.

Abstract Copyright: © 2021. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.

Journal keyword(s): Gravitational microlensing

VizieR on-line data: <Available at CDS (J/AJ/161/126): fig1.dat>

Simbad objects: 6

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