Bibcode
OGLE Collaboration; Mróz, Przemek; Udalski, Andrzej; Bennett, David P.; Ryu, Yoon-Hyun; Sumi, Takahiro; Shvartzvald, Yossi; Skowron, Jan; Poleski, Radosław; Pietrukowicz, Paweł; Kozłowski, Szymon; Szymański, Michał K.; Wyrzykowski, Łukasz; Soszyński, Igor; Ulaczyk, Krzysztof; Rybicki, Krzysztof; Iwanek, Patryk; KMTNet Collaboration; Albrow, Michael D.; Chung, Sun-Ju; Gould, Andrew; Han, Cheongho; Hwang, Kyu-Ha; Jung, Youn Kil; Shin, In-Gu; Yee, Jennifer C.; Zang, Weicheng; 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.; MOA Collaboration; Abe, Fumio; Barry, Richard; Bhattacharya, Aparna; Bond, Ian A.; Donachie, Martin; Fukui, A.; Hirao, Yuki; Itow, Yoshitaka; Kawasaki, Kohei; Kondo, Iona; Koshimoto, Naoki; Li, Man Cheung Alex; Matsubara, Yutaka; Muraki, Yasushi; Miyazaki, Shota; Nagakane, Masayuki; Ranc, Clément; Rattenbury, Nicholas J.; Suematsu, Haruno; Sullivan, Denis J.; Suzuki, Daisuke; Tristram, Paul J.; Yonehara, Atsunori; Wise Group; Maoz, Dan; Kaspi, Shai; Friedmann, Matan
Referencia bibliográfica
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 622, id.A201, 8 pp.
Fecha de publicación:
2
2019
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Descripción
Planet formation theories predict the existence of free-floating planets
that have been ejected from their parent systems. Although they emit
little or no light, they can be detected during gravitational
microlensing events. Microlensing events caused by rogue planets are
characterized by very short timescales tE (typically below
two days) and small angular Einstein radii θE (up to
several μas). Here we present the discovery and characterization of
two ultra-short microlensing events identified in data from the Optical
Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) survey, which may have been
caused by free-floating or wide-orbit planets. OGLE-2012-BLG-1323 is one
of the shortest events discovered thus far (tE = 0.155
± 0.005 d, θE = 2.37 ± 0.10μas) and
was caused by an Earth-mass object in the Galactic disk or a
Neptune-mass planet in the Galactic bulge. OGLE-2017-BLG-0560
(tE = 0.905 ± 0.005 d, θE = 38.7
± 1.6μas) was caused by a Jupiter-mass planet in the Galactic
disk or a brown dwarf in the bulge. We rule out stellar companions up to
a distance of 6.0 and 3.9 au, respectively. We suggest that the lensing
objects, whether located on very wide orbits or free-floating, may
originate from the same physical mechanism. Although the sample of
ultrashort microlensing events is small, these detections are consistent
with low-mass wide-orbit or unbound planets being more common than stars
in the Milky Way.