KMT-2025-BLG-0975Lb and KMT-2025-BLG-1160Lb: Two Uranus-Mass Planets Beyond the Snow Line Discovered by Microlensing
Cheongho Han, Chung-Uk Lee, Andrzej Udalski, Andrew Gould, Michael D. Albrow, Sun-Ju Chung, Youn Kil Jung, Kyu-Ha Hwang, Yoon-Hyun Ryu, Yossi Shvartzvald, In-Gu Shin, Jennifer C. Yee, Weicheng Zang, Hongjing Yang, Doeon Kim, Dong-Jin Kim, Byeong-Gon Park, Richard W. Pogge, Przemek Mróz, Michał K. Szymański, Jan Skowron, Radosław Poleskim Igor Soszyński, Paweł Pietrukowicz, Szymon Kozłowski, Krzysztof A. Rybicki, Patryk Iwanek, Krzysztof Ulaczyk, Marcin Wrona, Mariusz Gromadzki, Mateusz J. Mróz
astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.GA
Submitted: 2026-07-28
Comments: 11 pages, 7 figures
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The gist: We present the analysis of two planetary microlensing events, KMT-2025-BLG-0975 and KMT-2025-BLG-1160, discovered during the 2025 Galactic bulge microlensing season through high-cadence survey
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Abstract
We present the analysis of two planetary microlensing events, KMT-2025-BLG-0975 and KMT-2025-BLG-1160, discovered during the 2025 Galactic bulge microlensing season through high-cadence survey observations. In both events, short-duration anomalies near the peaks of the lensing light curves reveal the presence of planetary companions. Light-curve modeling yields planet-to-host mass ratios of q = 8.6 times 10-4 for KMT-2025-BLG-0975 and 1.3 times 10-4 for KMT-2025-BLG-1160. For KMT-2025-BLG-0975, finite-source effects are detected, enabling a measurement of the angular Einstein radius, whereas only a lower limit on this quantity is obtained for KMT-2025-BLG-1160. We estimate the physical parameters of the lens systems through Bayesian analyses constrained by the measured microlensing observables. The results indicate that the planetary companions have masses of M p=29.8+50.5-16.0 M for KMT-2025-BLG-0975Lb and 25.4+15.5-14.1 M for KMT-2025-BLG-1160Lb. Both planets have masses comparable to that of Uranus. The host stars are inferred to be a low-mass M dwarf with a mass of M h=0.10+0.18-0.06 M for KMT-2025-BLG-0975L and a late K dwarf with a mass of M h=0.58+0.35-0.32 M for KMT-2025-BLG-1160L. The projected planet--host separations are a=0.81+0.10-0.11 au for KMT-2025-BLG-0975Lb and a=2.56+0.48-0.71 au and 3.29+0.61-0.92 au for the inner and wide solutions, respectively, of KMT-2025-BLG-1160Lb. In both systems, the planets are located beyond the expected snow-line distances of their hosts, placing them in the cold ice-giant regime.
Sources
- MASADA: From Microlensing Planet Mass-Ratio Function to Planet Mass Function
- OGLE-IV: Fourth Phase of the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment
- Difference Image Analysis of the OGLE-II Bulge Data. I. The Method
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