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2017ApJ...840L...3S - Astrophys. J., 840, L3-L3 (2017/May-1)

An Earth-mass planet in a 1 au orbit around an ultracool dwarf.

SHVARTZVALD Y., YEE J.C., CALCHI NOVATI S., GOULD A., LEE C.-U., BEICHMAN C., BRYDEN G., CAREY S., GAUDI B.S., HENDERSON C.B., ZHU W. (The Spitzer Team), ALBROW M.D., CHA S.-M., CHUNG S.-J., HAN C., HWANG K.-H., JUNG Y.K., KIM D.-J., KIM H.-W., KIM S.-L., LEE Y., PARK B.-G., POGGE R.W., RYU Y.-H., SHIN I.-G. (The KMTNet Group)

Abstract (from CDS):

We combine Spitzer and ground-based Korea Microlensing Telescope Network microlensing observations to identify and precisely measure an Earth-mass (1.43–0.32+0.45M) planet OGLE-2016-BLG-1195Lb at 1.16–0.13+0.16  au orbiting a 0.078–0.012+0.016M ultracool dwarf. This is the lowest-mass microlensing planet to date. At 3.91–0.46+0.42 kpc, it is the third consecutive case among the Spitzer "Galactic distribution" planets toward the Galactic bulge that lies in the Galactic disk as opposed to the bulge itself, hinting at a skewed distribution of planets. Together with previous microlensing discoveries, the seven Earth-size planets orbiting the ultracool dwarf TRAPPIST-1, and the detection of disks around young brown dwarfs, OGLE-2016-BLG-1195Lb suggests that such planets might be common around ultracool dwarfs. It therefore sheds light on the formation of both ultracool dwarfs and planetary systems at the limit of low-mass protoplanetary disks.

Abstract Copyright: © 2017. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.

Journal keyword(s): binaries: general - Galaxy: bulge - gravitational lensing: micro - planetary systems - planetary systems

Simbad objects: 10

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