Systematic KMTNet Planetary Anomaly Search. IX. Complete Sample of 2016 Prime-Field Planets [EPA]

http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.16881


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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I. Shin, J. Yee, W. Zang, et. al.
Thu, 30 Mar 23
56/66

Comments: 38 pages, 17 figures, 12 Tables, submitted to the AAS journal