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MOA-2009-BLG-387Lb: a massive planet orbiting an M dwarf

MOA-2009-BLG-387Lb: a massive planet orbiting an M dwarf

Aims. We report the discovery of a planet with a high planet-to-star mass ratio in the microlensing event MOA-2009-BLG-387, which exhibited pronounced deviations over a 12-day interval, one of the longest for any planetary event. The host is an M dwarf, with a mass in the range 0.07 M⊙ < …