OGLE-2015-BLG-1609Lb: A sub-Jovian planet orbiting a low-mass stellar or brown dwarf host

Mróz, MJ ORCID: 0000-0002-8911-6581, Poleski, R ORCID: 0000-0002-9245-6368, Udalski, A ORCID: 0000-0001-5207-5619, Sumi, T, Tsapras, Y ORCID: 0000-0001-8411-351X, Hundertmark, M ORCID: 0000-0003-0961-5231, Pietrukowicz, P ORCID: 0000-0002-2339-5899, Szymanski, MK ORCID: 0000-0002-0548-8995, Skowron, J ORCID: 0000-0002-2335-1730, Mróz, P, Gromadzki, M ORCID: 0000-0002-1650-1518, Iwanek, P, Kozlowski, S, Ratajczak, M, Rybicki, KA, Skowron, DM ORCID: 0000-0001-9439-604X, Soszynski, I, Ulaczyk, K, Wrona, M ORCID: 0000-0002-3051-274X, Abe, F et al (2025) OGLE-2015-BLG-1609Lb: A sub-Jovian planet orbiting a low-mass stellar or brown dwarf host. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 698. ISSN 0004-6361

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Abstract

We present a comprehensive analysis of the planetary microlensing event OGLE-2015-BLG-1609. The planetary anomaly was detected by two survey telescopes, OGLE and MOA. Both surveys collected enough data over the planetary anomaly to enable an unambiguous planet detection. Such survey detections of planetary anomalies are needed to build a robust sample of planets, which could improve studies on the microlensing planetary occurrence rate by reducing biases and statistical uncertainties. In this work we examined different methods for modeling microlensing events using individual datasets. In particular, we incorporated a Galactic model prior to better constrain the poorly defined microlensing parallax. Ultimately, we fitted a comprehensive model to all available data, identifying three potential topologies, with two showing comparably high Bayesian evidence. Our analysis indicates that the host of the planet is either a brown dwarf, with a probability of 34%, or a low-mass stellar object (M dwarf), with a probability of 66%. The topology that provides the best fit to the data results in an extraordinary low host mass, Mh = 0.025+0.050-0.012MȮ, 0.025 0.012+0.050 accompanied by an Earth-mass planet with Mc = 1.9+3.9-1.0MaȮ . 1.9 1.0+3.9

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	5109 Space Sciences; 51 Physical Sciences; 0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences; Astronomy & Astrophysics; 5101 Astronomical sciences; 5107 Particle and high energy physics; 5109 Space sciences
Subjects:	Q Science > QB Astronomy Q Science > QC Physics
Divisions:	Astrophysics Research Institute
Publisher:	EDP Sciences
Date of acceptance:	2 April 2025
Date of first compliant Open Access:	2 July 2025
Date Deposited:	02 Jul 2025 15:45
Last Modified:	03 Jul 2025 12:45
DOI or ID number:	10.1051/0004-6361/202453454
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/26700

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