OGLE-2017-BLG-0482Lb: A Microlensing Super-Earth Orbiting a Low-mass Host Star

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2018
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Han C
Hirao Y
Udalski A
Lee CU
Bozza V
Gould A
Abe F
Barry R
Bond IA
Bennett DP
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© 2018. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. We report the discovery of a planetary system in which a super-Earth orbits a late M-dwarf host. The planetary system was found from the analysis of the microlensing event OGLE-2017-BLG-0482, wherein the planet signal appears as a short-term anomaly to the smooth lensing light curve produced by the host. Despite its weak signal and short duration, the planetary signal was firmly detected from the dense and continuous coverage by three microlensing surveys. We find a planet/host mass ratio of q ∼ 1.4 × 10-4. We measure the microlens parallax from the long-term deviation in the observed lensing light curve, but the angular Einstein radius cannot be measured because the source trajectory did not cross the planet-induced caustic. Using the measured event timescale and the microlens parallax, we find that the masses of the planet and the host are and , respectively, and the projected separation between them is au. The estimated distance to the lens is kpc. The discovery of the planetary system demonstrates that microlensing provides an important method to detect low-mass planets orbiting low-mass stars.

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gravitational lensing: micro, planetary systems
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Fields of Research::51 - Physical sciences::5101 - Astronomical sciences::510109 - Stellar astronomy and planetary systems
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