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2021AJ....162...96R - Astron. J., 162, 96-96 (2021/September-0)

Shortest microlensing event with a bound planet: KMT-2016-BLG-2605.

RYU Y.-H., HWANG K.-H., GOULD A., YEE J.C., ALBROW M.D., CHUNG S.-J., HAN C., JUNG Y.K., KIM H.-W., 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. and POGGE R.W.

Abstract (from CDS):

With a planet-host mass ratio q = 0.012 ± 0.001, KMT-2016-BLG-2605 has the shortest Einstein timescale, tE = 3.41 ± 0.13 days, of any planetary microlensing event to date. This prompts us to examine the full sample of seven short (tE < 7 days) planetary events with good q measurements. We find that six have clustered Einstein radii θE = 115 ± 20 µas and lens-source relative proper motions µrel ≃ 9.5 ± 2.5 mas yr–1. For the seventh, these two quantities could not be measured. These distributions are consistent with a Galactic bulge population of very low mass (VLM) hosts near the hydrogen-burning limit. This conjecture could be verified by imaging at first adaptive optics light on next-generation (30 m) telescopes. Based on a preliminary assessment of the sample, "planetary" companions (i.e., below the deuterium-burning limit) are divided into "genuine planets," formed in their disks by core accretion, and VLM brown dwarfs, which form like stars. We discuss techniques for expanding the sample, which include taking account of the peculiar "anomaly-dominated" morphology of the KMT-2016-BLG-2605 light curve.

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

Journal keyword(s): Gravitational microlensing - Gravitational microlensing exoplanet detection

VizieR on-line data: <Available at CDS (J/AJ/162/96): fig4.dat>

CDS comments: KMT-2016-BLG-2124 is a misprint for KMT-2016-BLG-2142.

Simbad objects: 15

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