The Astronomical Journal (Jan 2023)

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

  • In-Gu Shin,
  • Jennifer C. Yee,
  • Weicheng Zang,
  • Hongjing Yang,
  • Kyu-Ha Hwang,
  • Cheongho Han,
  • Andrew Gould,
  • Andrzej Udalski,
  • Ian A. Bond,
  • Leading authors,
  • Michael D. Albrow,
  • Sun-Ju Chung,
  • Youn Kil Jung,
  • Yoon-Hyun Ryu,
  • Yossi Shvartzvald,
  • Sang-Mok Cha,
  • Dong-Jin Kim,
  • Seung-Lee Kim,
  • Chung-Uk Lee,
  • Dong-Joo Lee,
  • Yongseok Lee,
  • Byeong-Gon Park,
  • Richard W. Pogge,
  • The KMTNet Collaboration,
  • Przemek Mróz,
  • Michał K. Szymański,
  • Jan Skowron,
  • Radosław Poleski,
  • Igor Soszyński,
  • Paweł Pietrukowicz,
  • Szymon Kozłowski,
  • Krzysztof A. Rybicki,
  • Patryk Iwanek,
  • Krzysztof Ulaczyk,
  • Marcin Wrona,
  • Mariusz Gromadzki,
  • The OGLE Collaboration,
  • Fumio Abe,
  • Richard Barry,
  • David P. Bennett,
  • Aparna Bhattacharya,
  • Hirosane Fujii,
  • Akihiko Fukui,
  • Ryusei Hamada,
  • Yuki Hirao,
  • Stela Ishitani Silva,
  • Yoshitaka Itow,
  • Rintaro Kirikawa,
  • Iona Kondo,
  • Naoki Koshimoto,
  • Yutaka Matsubara,
  • Shota Miyazaki,
  • Yasushi Muraki,
  • Greg Olmschenk,
  • Clément Ranc,
  • Nicholas J. Rattenbury,
  • Yuki Satoh,
  • Takahiro Sumi,
  • Daisuke Suzuki,
  • Mio Tomoyoshi,
  • Paul J. Tristram,
  • Aikaterini Vandorou,
  • Hibiki Yama,
  • Kansuke Yamashita,
  • the MOA Collaboration

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ace96d
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 166, no. 3
p. 104

Abstract

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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-0625Lb, OGLE-2016-BLG-1850Lb, and KMT-2016-BLG-1751Lb) and one planet candidate (KMT-2016-BLG-1855), which were found by searching 2016 KMTNet prime fields. These buried planets show a wide range of masses from Earth-class to super-Jupiter-class and are located in both the disk and the bulge. The ultimate goal of this series is to build a complete planet sample. Because our work provides a complementary sample to other planet detection methods, which have different detection sensitivities, our complete sample will help us to obtain a better understanding of planet demographics in our Galaxy.

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