Systematic KMTNet Planetary Anomaly Search. II. Six New q &lt; 2 × 10<SUP>-4</SUP> Mass-ratio Planets

Mao, Shude; Yang, Hongjing; Bond, Ian A.; Udalski, Andrzej; Gould, Andrew; Zang, Weicheng; Hwang, Kyu-Ha; Mao, Shude; Albrow, Michael D.; Chung, Sun-Ju; Han, Cheongho; Kil Jung, Youn; Ryu, Yoon-Hyun; Shin, In-Gu; Shvartzvald, Yossi; Yee, Jennifer C.; 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.; Pogge, Richard W.; Mróz, Przemek; Poleski, Radek; Skowron, Jan; Szymański, Michał K.; Soszyński, Igor; Pietrukowicz, Paweł; Kozłowski, Szymon; Ulaczyk, Krzysztof; Rybicki, Krzysztof A.; Iwanek, Patryk; Wrona, Marcin; Gromadzki, Mariusz; Gromadzki, Mariusz; Abe, Fumio; Barry, Richard; Bennett, David P.; Bhattacharya, Aparna; Fujii, Hirosame; Fukui, Akihiko; Hirao, Yuki; Itow, Yoshitaka; Kirikawa, Rintaro; Kondo, Iona; Koshimoto, Naoki; Munford, Brandon; Matsubara, Yutaka; Miyazaki, Shota; Muraki, Yasushi; Olmschenk, Greg; Ranc, Clément; Rattenbury, Nicholas J.; Satoh, Yuki K.; Shoji, Hikaru; Ishitani Silva, Stela; Sumi, Takahiro; Suzuki, Daisuke; Tristram, Paul J.; Yonehara, Atsunori; Yonehara, Atsunori; Zhang, Xiangyu; Zhu, Wei; Penny, Matthew T.; Fouqué, Pascal; Fouqué, Pascal
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The Astronomical Journal

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2022
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We apply the automated AnomalyFinder algorithm of Paper I to 2018-2019 light curves from the ≃13 deg2 covered by the six KMTNet prime fields, with cadences Γ ≥ 2 hr-1. We find a total of 11 planets with mass ratios q < 2 × 10-4, including 6 newly discovered planets, 1 planet that was reported in Paper I, and recovery of 4 previously discovered planets. One of the new planets, OGLE-2018-BLG-0977Lb, is in a planetary caustic event, while the other five (OGLE-2018-BLG-0506Lb, OGLE-2018-BLG-0516Lb, OGLE-2019-BLG-1492Lb, KMT-2019-BLG-0253, and KMT-2019-BLG-0953) are revealed by a "dip" in the light curve as the source crosses the host-planet axis on the opposite side of the planet. These subtle signals were missed in previous by-eye searches. The planet-host separations (scaled to the Einstein radius), s, and planet-host mass ratios, q, are, respectively, (s, q × 105) = (0.88, 4.1), (0.96 ± 0.10, 8.3), (0.94 ± 0.07, 13), (0.97 ± 0.07, 18), (0.97 ± 0.04, 4.1), and (0.74, 18), where the " ± " indicates a discrete degeneracy. The 11 planets are spread out over the range $-5\lt \mathrm{log}q\lt -3.7$ . Together with the two planets previously reported with q ~ 10-5 from the 2018-2019 nonprime KMT fields, this result suggests that planets toward the bottom of this mass-ratio range may be more common than previously believed.
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