We report the discovery of a giant planet in the OGLE-2017-BLG-1522 microlensing event. The planetary perturbations were clearly identified by high-cadence survey experiments despite the relatively short event timescale of $t_{rm E} sim 7.5$ days. The Einstein radius is unusually small, $theta_{rm E} = 0.065,$mas, implying that the lens system either has very low mass or lies much closer to the microlensed source than the Sun, or both. A Bayesian analysis yields component masses $(M_{rm host}, M_{rm planet})=(46_{-25}^{+79}, 0.75_{-0.40}^{+1.26})~M_{rm J}$ and source-lens distance $D_{rm LS} = 0.99_{-0.54}^{+0.91}~{rm kpc}$, implying that this is a brown-dwarf/Jupiter system that probably lies in the Galactic bulge, a location that is also consistent with the relatively low lens-source relative proper motion $mu = 3.2 pm 0.5~{rm mas}~{rm yr^{-1}}$. The projected companion-host separation is $0.59_{-0.11}^{+0.12}~{rm AU}$, indicating that the planet is placed beyond the snow line of the host, i.e., $a_{sl} sim 0.12~{rm AU}$. Planet formation scenarios combined with the small companion-host mass ratio $q sim 0.016$ and separation suggest that the companion could be the first discovery of a giant planet that formed in a protoplanetary disk around a brown dwarf host.
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