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Red noise versus planetary interpretations in the microlensing event OGLE-2013-BLG-446

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arxiv 1510.02724 v2 pith:35E5KDRK submitted 2015-10-09 astro-ph.EP

Red noise versus planetary interpretations in the microlensing event OGLE-2013-BLG-446

E. Bachelet , D. M. Bramich , C. Han , J. Greenhill , R. A. Street , A. Gould , G. D Ago , K. AlSubai
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M. Dominik R. Figuera Jaimes K. Horne M. Hundertmark N. Kains C. Snodgrass I. A. Steele Y. Tsapras M. D. Albrow V. Batista J.-P. Beaulieu D.P. Bennett S. Brillant J. A. R. Caldwell A. Cassan A. Cole C. Coutures S. Dieters D. Dominis Prester J. Donatowicz P. Fouque K. Hill J.-B. Marquette J. Menzies C. Pere C. Ranc J. Wambsganss D. Warren L. Andrade de Almeida J.-Y. Choi D. L. DePoy Subo Dong L.-W. Hung K.H. Hwang F. Jablonski Y. K. Jung S. Kaspi N. Klein C.-U. Lee D. Maoz J.A. Munoz D. Nataf H. Park R. W. Pogge D. Polishook I.-G. Shin A. Shporer J.C.Yee F. Abe A. Bhattacharya I.A. Bond C.S. Botzler M. Freeman A. Fukui Y. Itow N. Koshimoto C.H. Ling K. Masuda Y. Matsubara Y. Muraki K. Ohnishi L.C. Philpott N. Rattenbury To. Saito D.J. Sullivan T. Sumi D. Suzuki P. J. Tristram A. Yonehara V. Bozza S. Calchi Novati S. Ciceri P. Galianni S.H. Gu K. Harpsoe T. C. Hinse U. G. Jorgensen D. Juncher H. Korhonen L. Mancini C. Melchiorre A. Popovas A. Postiglione M. Rabus S. Rahvar R. W. Schmidt G. Scarpetta J. Skottfelt John Southworth An. Stabile J. Surdej X.-B. Wang O. Wertz
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For all exoplanet candidates, the reliability of a claimed detection needs to be assessed through a careful study of systematic errors in the data to minimize the false positives rate. We present a method to investigate such systematics in microlensing datasets using the microlensing event OGLE-2013-BLG-0446 as a case study. The event was observed from multiple sites around the world and its high magnification (A_{max} \sim 3000) allowed us to investigate the effects of terrestrial and annual parallax. Real-time modeling of the event while it was still ongoing suggested the presence of an extremely low-mass companion (\sim 3M_\oplus ) to the lensing star, leading to substantial follow-up coverage of the light curve. We test and compare different models for the light curve and conclude that the data do not favour the planetary interpretation when systematic errors are taken into account.

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