Bibcode
Han, Cheongho; Yee, Jennifer C.; Udalski, Andrzej; Bond, Ian A.; Bozza, Valerio; Cassan, Arnaud; Hirao, Yuki; Dong, Subo; Kollmeier, Juna A.; Morrell, Nidia; Boutsia, Konstantina; authors, Leading; Albrow, Michael D.; Chung, Sun-Ju; Gould, Andrew; Hwang, Kyu-Ha; Lee, Chung-Uk; Ryu, Yoon-Hyun; Shin, In-Gu; Shvartzvald, Yossi; Jung, Youn Kil; Kim, Doeon; Kim, Woong-Tae; Cha, Sang-Mok; Kim, Dong-Jin; Kim, Hyoun-Woo; Hong, Kyeongsoo; Kim, Seung-Lee; Lee, Dong-Joo; Lee, Yongseok; Park, Byeong-Gon; Pogge, Richard W.; Zang, Weicheng; The KMTNet Collaboration; Mróz, Przemek; Szymański, Michał K.; Skowron, Jan; Poleski, Radek; Soszyński, Igor; Pietrukowicz, Paweł; Kozłowski, Szymon; Ulaczyk, Krzysztof; Rybicki, Krzysztof A.; Iwanek, Patryk; Wrona, Marcin; The OGLE Collaboration; Abe, Fumio; Barry, Richard; Bennett, David P.; Bhattacharya, Aparna; Donachie, Martin; Fukui, Akihiko; Itow, Yoshitaka; Kawasaki, Kohei; Kondo, Iona; Koshimoto, Naoki; Li, Man Cheung Alex; Matsubara, Yutaka; Muraki, Yasushi; Miyazaki, Shota; Nagakane, Masayuki; Ranc, Clément; Rattenbury, Nicholas J.; Suematsu, Haruno; Sullivan, Denis J.; Sumi, Takahiro; Suzuki, Daisuke; Tristram, Paul J.; Yonehara, Atsunori; The MOA Collaboration
Referencia bibliográfica
The Astronomical Journal, Volume 158, Issue 3, article id. 102, 12 pp. (2019).
Fecha de publicación:
9
2019
Número de citas
17
Número de citas referidas
16
Descripción
We report the discovery of the microlensing planet OGLE-2018-BLG-0740Lb.
The planet is detected with a very strong signal of Δχ
2 ∼ 4630, but the interpretation of the signal suffers
from two types of degeneracies. One type is caused by the previously
known close/wide degeneracy, and the other is caused by an ambiguity
between two solutions, in which one solution requires the incorporation
of finite-source effects, while the other solution is consistent with a
point-source interpretation. Although difficult to be firmly resolved
based on only the photometric data, the degeneracy is resolved in strong
favor of the point-source solution with the additional external
information obtained from astrometric and spectroscopic observations.
The small astrometric offset between the source and baseline object
supports that the blend is the lens and this interpretation is further
secured by the consistency of the spectroscopic distance estimate of the
blend with the lensing parameters of the point-source solution. The
estimated mass of the host is 1.0 ± 0.1 M ⊙ and
the mass of the planet is 4.5 ± 0.6 M J (close
solution) or 4.8 ± 0.6 M J (wide solution) and the
lens is located at a distance of 3.2 ± 0.5 kpc. The bright nature
of the lens, with I ∼ 17.1 (V ∼ 18.2), combined with its
dominance of the observed flux suggest that radial-velocity (RV)
follow-up observations of the lens can be done using high-resolution
spectrometers mounted on large telescopes, e.g., Very Large
Telescope/ESPRESSO, and this can potentially not only measure the period
and eccentricity of the planet but also probe for close-in planets. We
estimate that the expected RV amplitude would be ∼ 60\sin i {{m}}
{{{s}}}-1.