OGLE-2018-BLG-1428Lb: a Jupiter-mass planet beyond the snow line of a dwarf star

TL;DR

This paper analyzes a microlensing event revealing a Jupiter-mass planet beyond the snow line of a dwarf star, providing detailed mass, distance, and orbital parameters through Bayesian analysis.

Contribution

The study presents the first detailed characterization of a Jupiter-mass planet beyond the snow line via microlensing, including host and planet mass estimates and future resolution prospects.

Findings

Host star is a dwarf star (~0.43 M_sun) at ~6.2 kpc.

Planet has a mass of ~0.77 M_J and orbits at ~3.3 au.

The lens can be resolved with future adaptive optics observations.

Abstract

We present the analysis of the microlensing event OGLE-2018-BLG-1428, which has a short-duration ($\sim 1$ day) caustic-crossing anomaly. The event was caused by a planetary lens system with planet/host mass ratio $q=1.7\times10^{-3}$. Thanks to the detection of the caustic-crossing anomaly, the finite source effect was well measured, but the microlens parallax was not constrained due to the relatively short timescale ($t_{\rm E}=24$ days). From a Bayesian analysis, we find that the host star is a dwarf star $M_{\rm host}=0.43^{+0.33}_{-0.22} \ M_{\odot}$ at a distance $D_{\rm L}=6.22^{+1.03}_{-1.51}\ {\rm kpc}$ and the planet is a Jovian-mass planet $M_{\rm p}=0.77^{+0.77}_{-0.53} \ M_{\rm J}$ with a projected separation $a_{\perp}=3.30^{+0.59}_{-0.83}\ {\rm au}$. The planet orbits beyond the snow line of the host star. Considering the relative lens-source proper motion of $\mu_{\rm rel} = 5.58 \pm 0.38\ \rm mas\ yr^{-1}$, the lens can be resolved by adaptive optics with a 30m telescope in the future.