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标题：MOA-2016-BLG-319Lb: Microlensing Planet Subject to Rare Minor-image Perturbation Degeneracy in Determining Planet Parameters
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作者：Cheongho Han ; Ian A. Bond ; Andrew Gould 等
期刊名称：The Astronomical journal
印刷版ISSN：0004-6256
电子版ISSN：1538-3881
出版年度：2018
卷号：156
期号：5
页码：1-9
DOI：10.3847/1538-3881/aae38e
语种：English
出版社：American Institute of Physics
摘要：We present the analysis of the planetary microlensing event MOA-2016-BLG-319. The event light curve is characterized by a brief (∼3 days) anomaly near the peak produced by minor-image perturbations. From modeling, we find two distinct solutions that describe the observed light curve almost equally as well. From the investigation of the lens-system configurations, we find that the confusion in the lensing solution is caused by the degeneracy between the two solutions resulting from the source passages on different sides of the planetary caustic. These degeneracies can be severe for major-image perturbations, but it is known that they are considerably less severe for minor-image perturbations. From the comparison of the lens-system configuration with those of two previously discovered planetary events, for which similar degeneracies were reported, we find that the degeneracies are caused by the special source trajectories that passed the star–planet axes at approximately right angles. By conducting a Bayesian analysis, it is estimated that the lens is a planetary system in which a giant planet with a mass M M 0.62 p 0.33 1.16 J = -+ ( M 0.65 0.35 1.21 J - + ) is orbiting a low-mass M-dwarf host with a mass M M 0.15 h 0.08 0.28 = - + . Here the planet masses in and out of the parentheses represent the masses for the individual degenerate solutions. The projected host-planet separations are a ⊥ ∼0.95 and ∼1.05au for the two solutions. The identified degeneracy indicates the need to check similar degeneracies in future analyses of planetary lensing events with minor-image perturbations.
关键词：gravitational lensing: micro;planetary systems