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Mass Production of 2023 KMTNet Microlensing Planets. II. Two Planets and A Brown Dwarf

June 2026 • 2026AJ....171..352L

Authors • Li, Zhixing • Li, Hongyu • Zang, Weicheng • Ryu, Yoon-Hyun • Udalski, Andrzej • Sumi, Takahiro • Yang, Hongjing • Tang, Yuchen • Zhang, Jiyuan • Mao, Shude • Albrow, Michael D. • Chung, Sun-Ju • Gould, Andrew • Han, Cheongho • Ha Hwang, Kyu- • Jung, Youn Kil • Shin, In-Gu • Shvartzvald, Yossi • Yee, Jennifer C. • Cha, Sang-Mok • Kim, Dong-Jin • Kim, Seung-Lee • Lee, Chung-Uk • Lee, Dong-Joo • Lee, Yongseok • Park, Byeong-Gon • Pogge, Richard W. • KMTNet Collaboration • Mróz, Przemek • Szymański, Michał K. • Skowron, Jan • Poleski, Radoslaw • Soszyński, Igor • Pietrukowicz, Paweł • Kozłowski, Szymon • Rybicki, Krzysztof A. • Iwanek, Patryk • Ulaczyk, Krzysztof • Wrona, Marcin • Gromadzki, Mariusz • Mróz, Mateusz J. • OGLE Collaboration • Abe, Fumio • Bando, Ken • Bennett, David P. • Bhattacharya, Aparna • Bond, Ian A. • Fukui, Akihiko • Hamada, Ryusei • Hamada, Shunya • Hamasak, Naoto • Hirao, Yuki • Ishitani Silva, Stela • Koshimoto, Naoki • Matsubara, Yutaka • Miyazaki, Shota • Muraki, Yasushi • Nagai, Tutumi • Nunota, Kansuke • Olmschenk, Greg • Ranc, Clément • Rattenbury, Nicholas J. • Satoh, Yuki • Suzuki, Daisuke • Terry, Sean • Tristram, Paul J. • Vandorou, Aikaterini • Yama, Hibiki • MOA Collaboration

Abstract • To expand the homogeneous microlensing planetary sample of the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet), we investigate six planetary candidates identified by the AnomalyFinder search in the 2023 prime-field data, namely KMT-2023-BLG-1592, OGLE-2023-BLG-0766, KMT-2023-BLG-0332, KMT-2023-BLG-0486, KMT-2023-BLG-0792, and OGLE-2023-BLG-1043. Light-curve modeling indicates that the first two events have planetary mass ratios of logq3.0 and −2.6, while the third exhibits a brown dwarf mass ratio of logq1.4 . The remaining three events show the well-known degeneracy between the binary-lens single-source (2L1S) and single-lens binary-source (1L2S) interpretations. A Bayesian analysis yields companion masses of about 0.6 and 1.2 Jupiter masses for the two planetary systems, likely orbiting beyond the snow lines of M- or K-dwarf hosts. A review of the KMTNet planetary sample shows that candidates discovered by AnomalyFinder are significantly more likely to exhibit the 2L1S/1L2S degeneracy, consistent with the tendency of AnomalyFinder to detect subtler planetary signals.

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