MOA-2011-BLG-262Lb: A sub-earth-mass moon orbiting a gas giant primary or a high velocity planetary system in the galactic bulge

MOA-2011-BLG-262Lb: A sub-earth-mass moon orbiting a gas giant primary or a high velocity planetary system in the galactic bulge

We present the first microlensing candidate for a free-floating exoplanet-exomoon system, MOA-2011-BLG-262, with a primary lens mass of M host ~ 4 Jupiter masses hosting a sub-Earth mass moon. The argument for an exomoon hinges on the system being relatively close to the Sun. The data constrain the...

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Main Authors: Bennett, D., Batista, V., Bond, I., Bennett, C., Suzuki, D., Beaulieu, J., Udalski, A., Donatowicz, J., Bozza, V., Abe, F., Botzler, C., Freeman, M., Fukunaga, D., Fukui, A., Itow, Y., Koshimoto, N., Ling, C., Masuda, K., Matsubara, Y., Muraki, Y., Namba, S., Ohnishi, K., Rattenbury, N., Saito, T., Sullivan, D., Sumi, T., Sweatman, W., Tristram, P., Tsurumi, N., Wada, K., Yock, P., Albrow, M., Bachelet, E., Brillant, S., Caldwell, J., Cassan, A., Cole, A., Corrales, E., Coutures, C., Dieters, S., Dominis Prester, D., Fouqué, P., Greenhill, J., Horne, K., Koo, J., Kubas, D., Marquette, J., Martin, R., Menzies, J., Sahu, K., Wambsganss, J., Williams, Andrew, Zub, M., Choi, J., Depoy, D., Dong, S., Gaudi, B., Gould, A., Han, C., Henderson, C., McGregor, D., Lee, C., Pogge, R., Shin, I., Yee, J., Szymanski, M., Skowron, J., Poleski, R., Kozlowski, S., Wyrzykowski, Kubiak, M., Pietrukowicz, P., Pietrzynski, G., Soszynski, I., Ulaczyk, K., Tsapras, Y., Street, R., Dominik, M., Bramich, D., Browne, P., Hundertmark, M., Kains, N., Snodgrass, C., Steele, I., Dekany, I., Gonzalez, O., Heyrovský, D., Kandori, R., Kerins, E., Lucas, P.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Institute of Physics Publishing 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/72999

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