Bibcode
Ranc, Clément; Bennett, David P.; Hirao, Yuki; Udalski, Andrzej; Han, Cheongho; Bond, Ian A.; Yee, Jennifer C.; Albrow, Michael D.; Chung, Sun-Ju; Gould, Andrew; Hwang, Kyu-Ha; Jung, Youn-Kil; Ryu, Yoon-Hyun; Shin, In-Gu; Shvartzvald, Yossi; Zang, Weicheng; Zhu, Wei; Cha, Sang-Mok; Kim, Dong-Jin; Kim, Hyoun-Woo; Kim, Seung-Lee; Lee, Chung-Uk; Lee, Dong-Joo; Lee, Yong-Seok; Park, Byeong-Gon; Pogge, Richard W.; (The KMTNet Collaboration; Abe, Fumio; Barry, Richard K.; Bhattacharya, Aparna; Donachie, Martin; Fukui, Akihiko; Itow, Yoshitaka; Kawasaki, Kohei; Kondo, Iona; Koshimoto, Naoki; Li, Man Cheung Alex; Matsubara, Yutaka; Miyazaki, Shota; Muraki, Yasushi; Nagakane, Masayuki; Rattenbury, Nicholas J.; Suematsu, Haruno; Sullivan, Denis J.; Sumi, Takahiro; Suzuki, Daisuke; Tristram, Paul J.; Yonehara, Atsunori; (The MOA Collaboration; Poleski, Radosław; Mróz, Przemek; Skowron, Jan; Szymański, Michał K.; Soszyński, Igor; Kozłowski, Szymon; Pietrukowicz, Paweł; Ulaczyk, Krzysztof; (The OGLE Collaboration
Bibliographical reference
The Astronomical Journal, Volume 157, Issue 6, article id. 232, 14 pp. (2019).
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Description
We present the analysis of the microlensing event OGLE-2015-BLG-1670,
detected in a high-extinction field very close to the Galactic plane.
Due to the dust extinction along the line of sight, this event was too
faint to be detected before it reached the peak of magnification. The
microlensing light-curve models indicate a high-magnification event with
a maximum of A max ≳ 200, very sensitive to planetary
deviations. An anomaly in the light curve has been densely observed by
the microlensing surveys MOA, KMTNet, and OGLE. From the light-curve
modeling, we find a planetary anomaly characterized by a planet-to-host
mass ratio,
q=≤ft({1.00}-0.16+0.18\right)×
{10}-4, at the peak recently identified in the mass-ratio
function of microlensing planets. Thus, this event is interesting to
include in future statistical studies about planet demography. We have
explored the possible degeneracies and find two competing planetary
models resulting from the s≤ftrightarrow 1/s degeneracy. However,
because the projected separation is very close to s = 1, the physical
implications for the planet for the two solutions are quite similar,
except for the value of s. By combining the light-curve parameters with
a Galactic model, we have estimated the planet mass M 2 =
{17.9}-8.8+9.6 {M}\oplus and the lens
distance {D}{{L}} = {6.7}-1.3+1.0
{kpc}, corresponding to a Neptune-mass planet close to the Galactic
bulge. Such events with a low absolute latitude (| b| ≈
1\buildrel{\circ}\over{.} 1) are subject to both high extinction and
more uncertain source distances, two factors that may affect the mass
measurements in the provisional Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope
fields. More events are needed to investigate the potential trade-off
between the higher lensing rate and the difficulty in measuring masses
in these low-latitude fields.