Systematic KMTNet planetary anomaly search
Andrew Gould, Cheongho Han, Weicheng Zang, Hongjing Yang, Kyu‐Ha Hwang, A. Udalski, I. A. Bond, Michael D. Albrow, Sun‐Ju Chung, Youn Kil Jung, Yoon-Hyun Ryu, In-Gu Shin, Yossi Shvartzvald, Jennifer C. Yee, Sang-Mok Cha, Dong-Jin Kim, Hyoun-Woo Kim, Seung‐Lee Kim, Chung‐Uk Lee, Dong-Joo Lee, Yongseok Lee, Byeong-Gon Park, Richard W. Pogge, P. Mróz, M. K. Szymański, J. Skowron, Radek Poleski, I. Soszyński, P. Pietrukowicz, S. Kozłowski, K. Ulaczyk, Krzysztof A. Rybicki, Patryk Iwanek, Marcin Wrona, Fumio Abe, Richard Barry, D. P. Bennett, Aparna Bhattacharya, Hirosame Fujii, Akihiko Fukui, Yuki Hirao, Stela Ishitani Silva, Rintaro Kirikawa, Iona Kondo, Naoki Koshimoto, Y. Matsubara, Sho Matsumoto, Shota Miyazaki, Y. Muraki, Arisa Okamura, Greg Olmschenk, Clément Ranc, Nicholas J. Rattenbury, Yuki Satoh, T. Sumi, Daisuke Suzuki, Taiga Toda, P. J. Tristram, Aikaterini Vandorou, Hibiki Yama, Charles Beichman, Geoffry Bryden, S. Calchi Novati, B. Scott Gaudi, Calen B. Henderson, Matthew T. Penny, Savannah Jacklin, Keivan G. Stassun, (The UKIRT Microlensing Team)
Abstract
We complete the analysis of all 2018 prime-field microlensing planets identified by the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet) Anomaly Finder. Among the ten previously unpublished events with clear planetary solutions, eight are either unambiguously planetary or are very likely to be planetary in nature: OGLE-2018-BLG-1126, KMT-2018-BLG-2004, OGLE-2018-BLG-1647, OGLE-2018-BLG-1367, OGLE-2018-BLG-1544, OGLE-2018-BLG-0932, OGLE-2018-BLG-1212, and KMT-2018-BLG-2718. Combined with the four previously published new Anomaly Finder events and 12 previously published (or in preparation) planets that were discovered by eye, this makes a total of 24 2018 prime-field planets discovered or recovered by Anomaly Finder. Together with a paper in preparation on 2018 subprime planets, this work lays the basis for the first statistical analysis of the planet mass-ratio function based on planets identified in KMTNet data. By systematically applying the heuristic analysis to each event, we identified the small modification in their formalism that is needed to unify the so-called close-wide and inner-outer degeneracies.