The IAU working definition of an exoplanet

AL Des Etangs, JJ Lissauer - New Astronomy Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
In antiquity, all of the enduring celestial bodies that were seen to move relative to the
background sky of stars were considered planets. During the Copernican revolution, this …

A Jovian analogue orbiting a white dwarf star

JW Blackman, JP Beaulieu, DP Bennett, C Danielski… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Studies, have shown that the remnants of destroyed planets and debris-disk planetesimals
can survive the volatile evolution of their host stars into white dwarfs,, but few intact planetary …

An isolated mass-gap black hole or neutron star detected with astrometric microlensing

CY Lam, JR Lu, A Udalski, I Bond… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the analysis of five black hole candidates identified from gravitational
microlensing surveys. Hubble Space Telescope astrometric data and densely sampled light …

Predictions of the WFIRST microlensing survey. I. Bound planet detection rates

MT Penny, BS Gaudi, E Kerins… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Wide Field InfraRed Survey Telescope (WFIRST) is the next NASA
astrophysics flagship mission, to follow the James Webb Space Telescope. The WFIRST …

OGLE-2019-BLG-0960 Lb: the smallest microlensing planet

JC Yee, W Zang, A Udalski, YH Ryu… - The Astronomical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the analysis of OGLE-2019-BLG-0960, which contains the smallest mass-ratio
microlensing planet found to date (q= 1.2–1.6× 10− 5 at 1σ). Although there is substantial …

Systematic KMTNet Planetary Anomaly Search. II. Six New q< 2× 10− 4 Mass-ratio Planets

KH Hwang, W Zang, A Gould, A Udalski… - The Astronomical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We apply the automated AnomalyFinder algorithm of Paper I to 2018–2019 light curves from
the≃ 13 deg 2 covered by the six KMTNet prime fields, with cadences Γ≥ 2 hr− 1. We find a …

WFIRST Exoplanet Mass-measurement Method Finds a Planetary Mass of 39±8 M⊕ for OGLE-2012-BLG-0950Lb

A Bhattacharya, JP Beaulieu, DP Bennett… - The Astronomical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
WFIRST Exoplanet Mass-measurement Method Finds a Planetary Mass of 39 ± 8 M⊕ for
OGLE-2012-BLG-0950Lb - IOPscience This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this site you …

Systematic KMTNet Planetary Anomaly Search. VII. Complete Sample of q< 10− 4 Planets from the First 4 yr Survey

W Zang, YK Jung, H Yang, X Zhang… - The Astronomical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the analysis of seven microlensing planetary events with planet/host mass ratios
q< 10− 4: KMT-2017-BLG-1194, KMT-2017-BLG-0428, KMT-2019-BLG-1806, KMT-2017 …

Systematic KMTNet Planetary Anomaly Search. IX. Complete Sample of 2016 Prime-field Planets

IG Shin, JC Yee, W Zang, H Yang… - The Astronomical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
As a part of the" Systematic KMTNet Planetary Anomaly Search" series, we report five new
planets (namely, OGLE-2016-BLG-1635Lb, MOA-2016-BLG-532Lb, KMT-2016-BLG …

Modeling microlensing events with MulensModel

R Poleski, JC Yee - Astronomy and computing, 2019 - Elsevier
We introduce MulensModel, a software package for gravitational microlensing modeling.
The package provides a framework for calculating microlensing model magnification curves …