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Many binary systems are in a state of strong interaction, where mass exchanges, accretion disks, common envelopes provide circumstellar matter which can have significant effects in microlensing light curves of background sources. Such…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 V. Bozza , L. Mancini

We present the analysis of stellar binary microlensing event OGLE-2015-BLG-0060 based on observations obtained from 13 different telescopes. Intensive coverage of the anomalous parts of the light curve was achieved by automated follow-up…

Microlensing is a powerful tool for studying stellar atmospheres because as the source crosses regions of formally infinite magnification (caustics) the surfaceof the star is resolved, thereby allowing one to measure the radial intensity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 B. Scott Gaudi , Andrew Gould

We present detailed analyses of three anomalous microlensing events--KMT-2021-BLG-0209, KMT-2021-BLG-0901, and OGLE-2025-BLG-0356--identified from a systematic re-examination of KMTNet light curves for which previous modeling attempts…

Microlensing can provide a useful tool to probe binary distributions down to low-mass limits of binary companions. In this paper, we analyze the light curves of 8 binary lensing events detected through the channel of high-magnification…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 I. -G. Shin , J. -Y. Choi , S. -Y. Park , C. Han , A. Gould , T. Sumi , A. Udalski , J. -P. Beaulieu , M. Dominik , W. Allen , M. Bos , G. W. Christie , D. L. Depoy , S. Dong , J. Drummond , A. Gal-Yam , B. S. Gaudi , L. -W. Hung , J. Janczak , S. Kaspi , C. -U. Lee , F. Mallia , D. Maoz , A. Maury , J. McCormick , L. A. G. Monard , D. Moorhouse , J. A. Muñoz , T. Natusch , C. Nelson , B. -G. Park , R. W. Pogge , D. Polishook , Y. Shvartzvald , A. Shporer , G. Thornley , J. C. Yee , F. Abe , D. P. Bennett , I. A. Bond , C. S. Botzler , A. Fukui , K. Furusawa , F. Hayashi , J. B. Hearnshaw , S. Hosaka , Y. Itow , K. Kamiya , P. M. Kilmartin , S. Kobara , A. Korpela , W. Lin , C. H. Ling , S. Makita , K. Masuda , Y. Matsubara , N. Miyake , Y. Muraki , M. Nagaya , K. Nishimoto , K. Ohnishi , T. Okumura , K. Omori , Y. C. Perrott , N. Rattenbury , To. Saito , L. Skuljan , D. J. Sullivan , D. Suzuki , W. L. Sweatman , P. J. Tristram , K. Wada , P. C. M. Yock , M. K. Szymański , M. Kubiak , G. Pietrzyński , I. Soszyński , R. Poleski , K. Ulaczyk , Ł. Wyrzykowski , S. Kozłowski , P. Pietrukowicz , M. D. Albrow , V. Batista , D. M. Bramich , S. Brillant , J. A. R. Caldwell , J. J. Calitz , A. Cassan , A. Cole , K. H. Cook , E. Corrales , Ch. Coutures , S. Dieters , D. Dominis Prester , J. Donatowicz , P. Fouqué , J. Greenhill , M. Hoffman , U. G. Jørgensen , S. R. Kane , D. Kubas , J. -B. Marquette , R. Martin , P. Meintjes , J. Menzies , K. R. Pollard , K. C. Sahu , J. Wambsganss , A. Williams , C. Vinter , M. Zub , A. Allan , P. Browne , K. Horne , C. Snodgrass , I. Steele , R. Street , Y. Tsapras , K. A. Alsubai , V. Bozza , P. Browne , M. J. Burgdorf , S. Calchi Novati , P. Dodds , S. Dreizler , F. Finet , T. Gerner , M. Glitrup , F. Grundahl , S. Hardis , K. Harpsøe , F. V. Hessman , T. C. Hinse , M. Hundertmark , N. Kains , E. Kerins , C. Liebig , G. Maier , L. Mancini , M. Mathiasen , M. T. Penny , S. Proft , S. Rahvar , D. Ricci , G. Scarpetta , S. Schäfer , F. Schönebeck , J. Skottfelt , J. Surdej , J. Southworth , F. Zimmer

We consider small-scale spheroidal clusters of weakly interacting massive particles in our Galaxy as non-compact gravitational microlenses and predict the appearance of caustics in the plane of a lensed source. The crossing of these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-30 M. B. Bogdanov , A. M. Cherepashchuk

(abridged) Some difficulties in determining the physical properties that lead to observed anomalies in microlensing light curves, such as the mass and separation of extra-solar planets orbiting the lens star, or the relative source-lens…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Dominik

If a gravitational microlensing event is caused by a widely separated binary lens and the source approaches both lens components, the source flux is successively magnified by the individual lenses: double microlensing events. If events are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Cheongho Han , Byeong-Gon Park , Wonyong Han , Young Woon Kang

We analyze the microlensing event KMT-2019-BLG-0797. The light curve of the event exhibits two anomalous features from a single-lens single-source model, and we aim to reveal the nature of the anomaly. It is found that a model with two…

In the current strategy of microlensing planet searches focusing on high-magnification events, wide and close binaries pose important sources of contamination that imitates planetary signals. For the purpose of finding systematic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Cheongho Han

If a source star is gravitationally microlensed by a multiple lens system, the resulting light curve can have significant deviations from the standard form of a single lens event. The chance to produce significant deviations becomes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Cheongho Han

We investigate the possibility of lens mass determination for a caustic crossing microlensing event based on a space telescope observation. We demonstrate that the parallax due to the orbital motion of a space telescope causes a periodic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Mareki Honma

To maximize the number of planet detections by increasing efficiency, current microlensing follow-up observation experiments are focusing on high-magnification events to search for planet-induced perturbations near the peak of lensing light…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Cheongho Han

We present the analysis of the binary-lens microlensing event OGLE-2017-BLG-0537. The light curve of the event exhibits two strong caustic-crossing spikes among which the second caustic crossing was resolved by high-cadence surveys. It is…

Current gravitational microlensing surveys are observing hundreds of millions of stars in the Galactic bulge - which makes finding rare microlensing events a challenging tasks. In almost all previous works, microlensing events have been…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-06 Przemek Mroz

If stars at the lower end of the main sequence are responsible for the microlensing events observed in the Galactic bulge, then light from the lensing star contributes to the observed brightness. The background and lensing stars generally…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Marc Kamionkowski

When a microlensing light curve is contaminated by blended light from unresolved stars near the line of sight to the lensed star, the light curve shape and corresponding parameterization for the event will differ from the values expected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Cheongho Han