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An entire substellar system consisting of a potentially rogue planet with a companion massive as Jupiter was detected about a decade ago through microlensing (OGLE 2012-BLG-0358L).


MICROLENSING DISCOVERY OF A TIGHT, LOW-MASS-RATIO PLANETARY-MASS OBJECT AROUND AN OLD FIELD BROWN DWARF, C. Han, Y. K. Jung, A. Udalski, T. Sumi, B. S. Gaudi, A. Gould, D. P. Bennett, Y. Tsapras, M. K. Szymański, M. Kubiak, G. Pietrzyński, I. Soszyński, J. Skowron, S. Kozłowski, R. Poleski, K. Ulaczyk, Ł. Wyrzykowski, P. Pietrukowicz, (The OGLE Collaboration), F. Abe, I. A. Bond, C. S. Botzler, P. Chote, M. Freeman, A. Fukui, K. Furusawa, P. Harris, Y. Itow, C. H. Ling, K. Masuda, Y. Matsubara, Y. Muraki, K. Ohnishi, N. J. Rattenbury, To. Saito, D. J. Sullivan, W. L. Sweatman, D. Suzuki, P. J. Tristram, K. Wada, P. C. M. Yock, (The MOA Collaboration), V. Batista, G. Christie, J.-Y. Choi, D. L. DePoy, Subo Dong, K.-H. Hwang, A. Kavka, C.-U. Lee, L. A. G. Monard, T. Natusch, H. Ngan, H. Park, R. W. Pogge, I. Porritt, I.-G. Shin, T.G. Tan, J. C. Yee, (The μFUN Collaboration), K. A. Alsubai, V. Bozza, D. M. Bramich, P. Browne, M. Dominik, K. Horne, M. Hundertmark, S. Ipatov, N. Kains, C. Liebig, C. Snodgrass, I. A. Steele, R. A. Street, (The RoboNet Collaboration)

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