Image-Constrained Modeling with Hubble and Keck Images Reveals that OGLE-2012-BLG-0563Lb is a Jupiter-Mass planet Orbiting a K Dwarf
Abstract
We present high angular resolution imaging from the Hubble Space Telescope combined with adaptive optics imaging results from the Keck-II telescope to determine the mass of the OGLE-2012-BLG-0563L host star and planet to be M host = 0.801 0.033M and M planet = 1.116 0.087 M Jupiter, respectively, located at a distance of DL = 5.46 0.56\,kpc. There is a close-wide degeneracy in the light curve models that indicates star-planet projected separation of 1.50 0.16\,AU for the close model and 8.41 0.87\,AU for the wide model. We used the image-constrained modeling method to analyze the light curve data with constraints from this high angular resolution image analysis. This revealed systematic errors in some of the ground-based light curve photometry that led to an estimate of the angular Einstein Radius, θE, that was too large by a factor of 2. The host star mass is a factor of 2.4 larger than the value presented in the fukui15 discovery paper. Although most systematic photometry errors seen in ground-based microlensing light curve photometry will not be repeated in data from the Roman Space Telescope's Galactic Bulge Time Domain Survey, we argue that image constrained modeling will be a valuable method to identify possible systematic errors in Roman photometry.
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