1. MOA-2010-BLG-477Lb: constraining the mass of a microlensing planet from microlensing parallax, orbital motion and detection of blended light
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Bachelet, E., Shin, I.-G., Han, C., Fouqué, P., Gould, A., Menzies, J.W., Beaulieu, J.-P., Bennett, D.P., Bond, I.A., Dong, Subo, Heyrovský, D., Marquette, J.-B., Marshall, J., Skowron, J., Street, R.A., Sumi, T., Udalski, A., Abe, L., Agabi, K., Albrow, M.D., Allen, W., Bertin, E., Bos, M., Bramich, D.M., Chavez, J., Christie, G.W., Cole, A.A., Crouzet, N., Dieters, S., Dominik, M., Drummond, J., Greenhill, J., Guillot, T., Henderson, C.B., Hessman, F.V., Horne, K., Hundertmark, M., Johnson, J.A., Jørgensen, U.G., Kandori, R., Liebig, C., Mékarnia, D., McCormick, J., Moorhouse, D., Nagayama, T., Nataf, D., Natusch, T., Nishiyama, S., Rivet, J.P., Sahu, K.C., Shvartzvald, Y., Thornley, G., Tomczak, A.R., Tsapras, Y., Yee, J.C., Batista, V., Bennett, C.S., Brillant, S., Caldwell, J.A.R., Cassan, A., Corrales, E., Coutures, C., Dominis Prester, D., Donatowicz, J., Kubas, D., Martin, Roland, Williams, A., Zub, M., The PLANET Collaboration, De Almeida, L., Depoy, D.L., Gaudi, B.S., Hung, L.-W., Jablonski, F., Kaspi, S., Klein, N., Lee, C.-U., Lee, Y., Koo, J.-R., Maoz, D., Muñoz, J.A., Pogge, R.W., Polishook, D., Shporer, A., The FUN Collaboration, Abe, F., Botzler, C.S., Chote, P., Freeman, M., Fukui, A., Furusawa, K., Harris, P., Itow, Y., Kobara, S., Ling, C.H., Masuda, K., Matsubara, Y., Miyake, N., Ohmori, K., Ohnishi, K., Rattenbury, N.J., Saito, To., Sullivan, D.J., Suzuki, D., Sweatman, W.L., Tristram, P.J., Wada, K., Yock, P.C.M., The MOA Collaboration, Szymanski, M.K., Soszynski, I., Kubiak, M., Poleski, R., Ulaczyk, K., Pietrzynski, G., Wyrzykowski, L., The OGLE Collaboration, Kains, N., Snodgrass, C., Steele, I.A., The RoboNet Collaboration, Alsubai, K.A., Bozza, V., Browne, P., Burgdorf, M.J., Calchi Novati, S., Dodds, P., Dreizler, S., Finet, F., Gerner, T., Hardis, S., Harpsøe, K., Hinse, T.C., Kerins, E., Mancini, L., Mathiasen, M., Penny, M.T., Proft, S., Rahvar, S., Ricci, D., Scarpetta, G., Schäfer, S., Schönebeck, F., Southworth, J., Surdej, J., Wambsganss, J., The MiNDSTEp Consortium, Joseph Louis LAGRANGE (LAGRANGE), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Laboratoire de Cosmologie, Astrophysique Stellaire & Solaire, de Planétologie et de Mécanique des Fluides (CASSIOPEE)
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gravitational lensing: micro ,planetary systems ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Astrophysics ,Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics ,Gravitational microlensing ,01 natural sciences ,7. Clean energy ,Einstein radius ,Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e Astrofisica ,Planet ,0103 physical sciences ,Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics ,010306 general physics ,010303 astronomy & astrophysics ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS ,Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics ,Physics ,Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP) ,Giant planet ,Astronomy and Astrophysics ,Mass ratio ,Light curve ,Orbit ,13. Climate action ,Space and Planetary Science ,Orbital motion ,micro [gravitational lensing] ,gravitational lensing: micro, planetary systems ,Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics ,[PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph] ,Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics - Abstract
Microlensing detections of cool planets are important for the construction of an unbiased sample to estimate the frequency of planets beyond the snow line, which is where giant planets are thought to form according to the core accretion theory of planet formation. In this paper, we report the discovery of a giant planet detected from the analysis of the light curve of a high-magnification microlensing event MOA-2010-BLG-477. The measured planet-star mass ratio is $q=(2.181\pm0.004)\times 10^{-3}$ and the projected separation is $s=1.1228\pm0.0006$ in units of the Einstein radius. The angular Einstein radius is unusually large $\theta_{\rm E}=1.38\pm 0.11$ mas. Combining this measurement with constraints on the "microlens parallax" and the lens flux, we can only limit the host mass to the range $0.13, Comment: 3 Tables, 12 Figures, accepted in ApJ
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- 2012
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