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author Yang, Hongjing
Zang, Weicheng
Ryu, Yoon-Hyun
Sumi, Takahiro
Zhang, Jiyuan
Li, Hongyu
Han, Cheongho
Tang, Yuchen
Qian, Qiyue
Li, Zhixing
Shang, Yuxin
Shan, Xikai
Mao, Shude
Damke, Guillermo
Zenteno, Alfredo
Heathcote, Steve
Boutsia, Konstantina
Mróz, Przemek
Zhao, Xiurui
Penny, Matthew
Terry, Sean
Tamburo, Patrick
Cunningham, Timothy
Ye, Quanzhi
Peng, Eric W.
Street, Rachel
Kruszyńska, Katarzyna
Bachelet, Etienne
Tsapras, Yiannis
Hundertmark, Markus
Albrow, Michael D.
Chung, Sun-Ju
Gould, Andrew
Hwang, Kyu-Ha
Jung, Youn Kil
Shin, In-Gu
Shvartzvald, Yossi
Yee, Jennifer C.
Kim, Dong-Jin
Lee, Chung-Uk
Park, Byeong-Gon
Bennett, David P.
Bond, Ian A.
Cataldo, Giuseppe
Hamada, Ryusei
Hirao, Yuki
Idei, Asahi
Makida, Shuma
Miyazaki, Shota
Nagai, Tutumi
Nagano, Togo
Nakayama, Seiya
Nishio, Mayu
Nunota, Kansuke
Ogawa, Ryo
Oishi, Ryunosuke
Okumoto, Yui
Rattenbury, Nicholas J.
Satoh, Yuki K.
Suzuki, Daisuke
Tamura, Motohide
Tamaoki, Takuto
Yama, Hibiki
author_facet Yang, Hongjing
Zang, Weicheng
Ryu, Yoon-Hyun
Sumi, Takahiro
Zhang, Jiyuan
Li, Hongyu
Han, Cheongho
Tang, Yuchen
Qian, Qiyue
Li, Zhixing
Shang, Yuxin
Shan, Xikai
Mao, Shude
Damke, Guillermo
Zenteno, Alfredo
Heathcote, Steve
Boutsia, Konstantina
Mróz, Przemek
Zhao, Xiurui
Penny, Matthew
Terry, Sean
Tamburo, Patrick
Cunningham, Timothy
Ye, Quanzhi
Peng, Eric W.
Street, Rachel
Kruszyńska, Katarzyna
Bachelet, Etienne
Tsapras, Yiannis
Hundertmark, Markus
Albrow, Michael D.
Chung, Sun-Ju
Gould, Andrew
Hwang, Kyu-Ha
Jung, Youn Kil
Shin, In-Gu
Shvartzvald, Yossi
Yee, Jennifer C.
Kim, Dong-Jin
Lee, Chung-Uk
Park, Byeong-Gon
Bennett, David P.
Bond, Ian A.
Cataldo, Giuseppe
Hamada, Ryusei
Hirao, Yuki
Idei, Asahi
Makida, Shuma
Miyazaki, Shota
Nagai, Tutumi
Nagano, Togo
Nakayama, Seiya
Nishio, Mayu
Nunota, Kansuke
Ogawa, Ryo
Oishi, Ryunosuke
Okumoto, Yui
Rattenbury, Nicholas J.
Satoh, Yuki K.
Suzuki, Daisuke
Tamura, Motohide
Tamaoki, Takuto
Yama, Hibiki
contents We present observations and analysis of the bound planetary microlensing event KMT-2025-BLG-1616. The planetary signal was captured by the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet) and the DECam Rogue Earths and Mars Survey (DREAMS). DREAMS's minute-cadence observations break the central/resonant degeneracy in the binary-lens models. The color of the faint source star ($I=22$) is measured from the DREAMS's $r - z$ color. The planetary system has a planet-host mass ratio of $q \sim 5 \times 10^{-4}$. A Bayesian analysis yields a host-star mass of $\sim 0.3\,M_\odot$, a planetary mass of $\sim 40\,M_{\oplus}$, a projected planet-host separation of $\sim 1.6~\mathrm{au}$, and a lens distance of $\sim 7.5~\mathrm{kpc}$. Based on the photometric precision achieved by DREAMS for this event, we simulate free-floating planet (FFP) detections and find that DREAMS is sensitive to Mars-mass FFPs in the Galactic bulge and Moon-mass FFPs in the Galactic disk.
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spellingShingle KMT-2025-BLG-1616Lb: First Microlensing Bound Planet From DREAMS
Yang, Hongjing
Zang, Weicheng
Ryu, Yoon-Hyun
Sumi, Takahiro
Zhang, Jiyuan
Li, Hongyu
Han, Cheongho
Tang, Yuchen
Qian, Qiyue
Li, Zhixing
Shang, Yuxin
Shan, Xikai
Mao, Shude
Damke, Guillermo
Zenteno, Alfredo
Heathcote, Steve
Boutsia, Konstantina
Mróz, Przemek
Zhao, Xiurui
Penny, Matthew
Terry, Sean
Tamburo, Patrick
Cunningham, Timothy
Ye, Quanzhi
Peng, Eric W.
Street, Rachel
Kruszyńska, Katarzyna
Bachelet, Etienne
Tsapras, Yiannis
Hundertmark, Markus
Albrow, Michael D.
Chung, Sun-Ju
Gould, Andrew
Hwang, Kyu-Ha
Jung, Youn Kil
Shin, In-Gu
Shvartzvald, Yossi
Yee, Jennifer C.
Kim, Dong-Jin
Lee, Chung-Uk
Park, Byeong-Gon
Bennett, David P.
Bond, Ian A.
Cataldo, Giuseppe
Hamada, Ryusei
Hirao, Yuki
Idei, Asahi
Makida, Shuma
Miyazaki, Shota
Nagai, Tutumi
Nagano, Togo
Nakayama, Seiya
Nishio, Mayu
Nunota, Kansuke
Ogawa, Ryo
Oishi, Ryunosuke
Okumoto, Yui
Rattenbury, Nicholas J.
Satoh, Yuki K.
Suzuki, Daisuke
Tamura, Motohide
Tamaoki, Takuto
Yama, Hibiki
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Astrophysics of Galaxies
We present observations and analysis of the bound planetary microlensing event KMT-2025-BLG-1616. The planetary signal was captured by the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet) and the DECam Rogue Earths and Mars Survey (DREAMS). DREAMS's minute-cadence observations break the central/resonant degeneracy in the binary-lens models. The color of the faint source star ($I=22$) is measured from the DREAMS's $r - z$ color. The planetary system has a planet-host mass ratio of $q \sim 5 \times 10^{-4}$. A Bayesian analysis yields a host-star mass of $\sim 0.3\,M_\odot$, a planetary mass of $\sim 40\,M_{\oplus}$, a projected planet-host separation of $\sim 1.6~\mathrm{au}$, and a lens distance of $\sim 7.5~\mathrm{kpc}$. Based on the photometric precision achieved by DREAMS for this event, we simulate free-floating planet (FFP) detections and find that DREAMS is sensitive to Mars-mass FFPs in the Galactic bulge and Moon-mass FFPs in the Galactic disk.
title KMT-2025-BLG-1616Lb: First Microlensing Bound Planet From DREAMS
topic Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Astrophysics of Galaxies
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.11469