The progress of KMTNet microlensing

  • Chung, Sun-Ju (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute) ;
  • Gould, Andrew (Department of Astronomy, Ohio State University) ;
  • Jung, Youn Kil (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute) ;
  • Hwang, Kyu-Ha (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute) ;
  • Ryu, Yoon-Hyun (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute) ;
  • Shin, In-Gu (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute) ;
  • Yee, Jennifer C. (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) ;
  • Zhu, Wei (Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Toronto) ;
  • Kim, Hyun-Woo (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute)
  • 발행 : 2019.04.10

초록

We report the status of KMTNet (Korea Microlensing Telescope Network) microlensing. From KMTNet event-finder, we are annually detecting over 2500 microlensing events. In 2018, we have carried out a real-time alert for only the Northern bulge fields. It was very helpful to select Spitzer targets. Thanks to the real-time alert, KMT-only events for which OGLE and MOA could not detect have been largely increased. The KMTNet event-finder and alert-finder algorithms are being upgraded every year. From these, we found 18 exoplanets and various interesting events, such as an exomoon-candidate, a free-floating candidate, and brown dwarfs, which are very difficult to be detected by other techniques including radial velocity and transit. In 2019, the KMTNet alert will be available in real-time for all bulge fields. As before, we will continue to collaborate with Spitzer team to measure the microlens parallaxes, which are required for estimating physical parameters of the lens. Thus, the KMTNet alert will be helpful to select Spitzer targets again. Also we plan to do follow-up observations for high-magnification events to study the planet multiplicity function. The KMTNet alert will play an important role to do follow-up observations for high-magnification events. Also, we will search for free-floating planets with short timescale (< 3 days) to study the planet frequency in our Galaxy.

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