OGLE-2019-BLG-0468Lb,c: Two microlensing giant planets around a G-type star
Abstract
Aims: With the aim of interpreting anomalous lensing events with no suggested models, we conducted a project of reinvestigating microlensing data collected in and before the 2019 season. In this work, we report a multi-planet system, OGLE-2019-BLG-0468L, that was found as a result of this project.
Methods: The light curve of the lensing event OGLE-2019-BLG-0468, which consists of three distinctive anomaly features, could not be explained by the usual binary-lens or binary-source interpretations. We find a solution that explains all anomaly features with a triple-lens interpretation, in which the lens is composed of two planets and their host, making the lens the fourth multi-planet system securely found by microlensing.
Results: The two planets have masses of ~3.4 MJ and ~10.2 MJ, and they are orbiting around a G-type star with a mass of ~0.9 M⊙ and a distance of ~4.4 kpc. The host of the planets is most likely responsible for the light of the baseline object, although the possibility of the host being a companion to the baseline object cannot be ruled out.
- Publication:
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Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Pub Date:
- February 2022
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2111.03755
- Bibcode:
- 2022A&A...658A..93H
- Keywords:
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- gravitational lensing: micro;
- planets and satellites: detection;
- Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics;
- Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
- E-Print:
- 10 pages, 3 tables, 11 figures