1. Systematic Reanalysis of KMTNet microlensing events, Paper I: Updates of the Photometry Pipeline and a New Planet Candidate
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Yang, Hongjing, Yee, Jennifer C., Hwang, Kyu-Ha, Qian, Qiyue, Bond, Ian A., Gould, Andrew, Hu, Zhecheng, Zhang, Jiyuan, Mao, Shude, Zhu, Wei, Albrow, Michael D., Chung, Sun-Ju, Han, Cheongho, Jung, Youn Kil, Ryu, Yoon-Hyun, Shin, In-Gu, Shvartzvald, Yossi, Cha, Sang-Mok, Kim, Dong-Jin, Kim, Hyoun-Woo, Kim, Seung-Lee, Lee, Chung-Uk, Lee, Dong-Joo, Lee, Yongseok, Park, Byeong-Gon, Pogge, Richard W., Zang, Weicheng, Abe, Fumio, Barry, Richard, Bennett, David P., Bhattacharya, Aparna, Donachie, Martin, Fujii, Hirosane, Fukui, Akihiko, Hirao, Yuki, Itow, Yoshitaka, Kirikawa, Rintaro, Kondo, Iona, Koshimoto, Naoki, Li, Man Cheung Alex, Matsubara, Yutaka, Muraki, Yasushi, Miyazaki, Shota, Olmschenk, Greg, Ranc, Clément, Rattenbury, Nicholas J., Satoh, Yuki, Shoji, Hikaru, Silva, Stela Ishitani, Sumi, Takahiro, Suzuki, Daisuke, Tanaka, Yuzuru, Tristram, Paul J., Yamawaki, Tsubasa, and Yonehara, Atsunori
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Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics ,Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies ,Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics - Abstract
In this work, we update and develop algorithms for KMTNet tender-love care (TLC) photometry in order to create an new, mostly automated, TLC pipeline. We then start a project to systematically apply the new TLC pipeline to the historic KMTNet microlensing events, and search for buried planetary signals. We report the discovery of such a planet candidate in the microlensing event MOA-2019-BLG-421/KMT-2019-BLG-2991. The anomalous signal can be explained by either a planet around the lens star or the orbital motion of the source star. For the planetary interpretation, despite many degenerate solutions, the planet is most likely to be a Jovian planet orbiting an M or K dwarf, which is a typical microlensing planet. The discovery proves that the project can indeed increase the sensitivity of historic events and find previously undiscovered signals., Comment: 19 pages, 13 figures, 7 tables. Submitted to MNRAS
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- 2023