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Limits on the abundance of galactic planets from 5 years of planet observations

  • MD Albrow*
  • , J An
  • , JP Beaulieu
  • , JAR Caldwell
  • , DL DePoy
  • , M Dominik
  • , BS Gaudi
  • , G Gould
  • , J Greenhill
  • , K Hill
  • , S Kane
  • , R Martin
  • , J Menzies
  • , JW Pel
  • , RW Pogge
  • , KR Pollard
  • , PD Sackett
  • , KC Sahu
  • , P Vermaak
  • , R Watson
  • A Williams, PLANET Collaboration
*Corresponding author voor dit werk

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Samenvatting

We search for signatures of planets in 43 intensively monitored microlensing events that were observed between 1995 and 1999. Planets would be expected to cause a short-duration (similar to1 day) deviation on the smooth, symmetric light curve produced by a single lens. We find no such anomalies and infer that less than one-third of the similar to0.3 M. stars that typically comprise the lens population have Jupiter mass companions with semimajor axes in the range of 1.5 AU <a <4 AU. Since orbital periods of planets at these radii are 3-15 yr, the outer portion of this region is currently difficult to probe with any other technique.

Originele taal-2English
Pagina's (van-tot)L113-L116
Aantal pagina's4
TijdschriftAstrophysical Journal
Volume556
Nummer van het tijdschrift2
StatusPublished - 1-aug.-2001

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