OGLE-2017-BLG-1522: A giant planet around a brown dwarf located in the Galactic bulge

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2018
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Jung YK
Udalski A
Gould A
Ryu Y-H
Yee JC
Han C
Albrow MD
Lee C-U
Kim S-L
Hwang K-H
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We report the discovery of a giant planet in the OGLE-2017-BLG-1522 microlensing event. The planetary perturbations were clearly identified by high-cadence survey experiments despite the relatively short event timescale of tE∼7.5 days. The Einstein radius is unusually small, θE=0.065mas, implying that the lens system either has very low mass or lies much closer to the microlensed source than the Sun, or both. A Bayesian analysis yields component masses (Mhost,Mplanet)=(46−25+79,0.75−0.40+1.26) MJ and source-lens distance DLS=0.99−0.54+0.91 kpc, implying that this is a brown-dwarf/Jupiter system that probably lies in the Galactic bulge, a location that is also consistent with the relatively low lens-source relative proper motion μ=3.2±0.5 mas yr−1. The projected companion-host separation is 0.59−0.11+0.12 AU, indicating that the planet is placed beyond the snow line of the host, i.e., asl∼0.12 AU. Planet formation scenarios combined with the small companion-host mass ratio q∼0.016 and separation suggest that the companion could be the first discovery of a giant planet that formed in a protoplanetary disk around a brown dwarf host.

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astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.SR, binaries: general, gravitational lensing: micro, brown dwarf, planetary systems
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Field of Research::02 - Physical Sciences::0201 - Astronomical and Space Sciences::020108 - Planetary Science (excl. Extraterrestrial Geology)
Fields of Research::51 - Physical sciences::5101 - Astronomical sciences::510109 - Stellar astronomy and planetary systems
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