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, A. Udalski, I. 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, P. Mróz, M. K. Szymański, J. Skowron, R. Poleski, I. Soszyński, P. Pietrukowicz, S. Kozłowski, Krzysztof A. Rybicki, Patryk Iwanek, K. Ulaczyk, Marcin Wrona, M. Gromadzki, Fumio Abe, Richard Barry, D. P. Bennett, Aparna Bhattacharya, Hirosane Fujii, Akihiko Fukui, Ryusei Hamada, Yuki Hirao, Stela Ishitani Silva, Y. Itow, Rintaro Kirikawa, Iona Kondo, Naoki Koshimoto, Y. Matsubara, Shota Miyazaki, Y. Muraki, Greg Olmschenk, Clément Ranc, Nicholas J. Rattenbury, Yuki Satoh, T. Sumi, Daisuke Suzuki, Mio Tomoyoshi, P. J. Tristram, Aikaterini Vandorou, Hibiki Yama, Kansuke Yamashita
Abstract
Abstract 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.