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Magnification changes the observed number counts of galaxies on the sky. This biases the observed tangential shear profiles around galaxies, the so-called galaxy-galaxy lensing (GGL) signal, and the related excess mass profile.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-07 Sandra Unruh , Peter Schneider , Stefan Hilbert , Patrick Simon , Sandra Martin , Jorge Corella Puertas

We investigate the properties of microlensing events caused by planetary systems where planets with a moon are widely separated from their host stars. From this investigation, we find that the moon feature generally appears as an very…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-03 Sun-Ju Chung , Yoon-Hyun Ryu

We study the colour changes induced by blending in a wormhole-like microlensing scenario with extended sources. The results are compared with those obtained for limb darkening. We assess the possibility of an actual detection of the colour…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Diego F. Torres , Ernesto F. Eiroa , Gustavo E. Romero

A variety of methods have been proposed to define and to quantify galaxy environments. While these techniques work well in general with spectroscopic redshift samples, their application to photometric redshift surveys remains uncertain. To…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-06 Chuan-Chin Lai , Lihwai Lin , Hung-Yu Jian , Tzi-Hong Chiueh , Alex Merson , Carlton Baugh , Sebastien Foucaud , Chin-Wei Chen , Wen-Ping Chen

The lensing power spectrum from cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature maps will be measured with unprecedented precision with upcoming experiments, including upgrades to ACT and SPT. Achieving significant improvements in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 A. van Engelen , S. Bhattacharya , N. Sehgal , G. P. Holder , O. Zahn , D. Nagai

Experiments are looking for diffuse brown dwarfs in the dark galactic halo through the gravitational lens effect. If brown dwarfs are clumped in dark clusters, the event rate is not changed, but events are spatially clustered, and stars…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alain Bouquet , Jean Kaplan , Jean-Manuel Verschaeve

Microlensing events provide a unique capacity to study the stellar remnant population of the Galaxy. Optical microlensing suffers from a near complete degeneracy between the mass, the velocity and the distance. However, a subpopulation of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-12 M. Karami , A. E. Broderick , S. Rahvar , M. Reid

Microlensing is most sensitive to binary lenses with relatively large orbital separations, and as such, typical binary microlensing events show little or no orbital motion during the event. However, despite the strength of binary…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 Matthew T. Penny , Eamonn Kerins , Shude Mao

Event-based sensors detect only changes in brightness across a scene, with each pixel producing an asynchronous stream of spatial-temporal data, rather than recording frames of overall illumination such as a traditional frame-based sensor.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-10 Monique Cockram , Noelia Martinez Rey

Much interest has been generated recently by the ongoing MACHO, EROS and OGLE projects to identify gravitationally lensed stars from the Large Magellanic Cloud and Galactic bulge, and the positive identification of several events (Alcock et…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. F. L. Simmons , J. P. Willis , A. Newsam

We interpret the large variety of redshift distributions of galaxies found by far-infrared and (sub-)millimeter deep surveys depending on their depth and wavelength using the B\'ethermin et al. (2012) phenomenological model of galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-04-15 Matthieu Béthermin , Carlos De Breuck , Mark Sargent , Emanuele Daddi

Galactic microlensing datasets now comprise in excess of $10^4$ events, and with the advent of next generation microlensing surveys that may be undertaken with facilities such as the Rubin Observatory (formerly LSST) and Roman Space…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 David Specht , Eamonn Kerins , Supachai Awiphan , Annie C. Robin

A Massive Compact Halo Object (Macho) that lenses a background star will magnify different parts of the rotating stellar disk by varying amounts. The differential magnification will cause a shift in the centroid of the star's spectral lines…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Dan Maoz , Andrew Gould

Accurate shape measurements are essential to infer cosmological parameters from large area weak gravitational lensing studies. The compact diffraction-limited point-spread function (PSF) in space-based observations is greatly beneficial,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-20 Xinzhong Er , Henk Hoekstra , Tim Schrabback , Vincenzo F. Cardone , Roberto Scaramella , Roberto Maoli , Martina Vicinanza , Bryan Gillis , Jason Rhodes

We report on the first results from a large-scale observing campaign aiming to use astrometric microlensing to detect and place limits on the mass of single objects, including stellar remnants. We used the Hubble Space Telescope to monitor…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-02 Noé Kains , A. Calamida , K. C. Sahu , S. Casertano , J. Anderson , A. Udalski , M. Zoccali , H. Bond , M. Albrow , I. Bond , T. Brown , M. Dominik , C. Fryer , M. Livio , S. Mao , M. Rejkuba

Among all galactic microlensing events, those involving a passage of the observed source star over the caustic created by a binary lens are particularly useful in providing information about stellar atmospheres, the dynamics of stellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Dominik

As the Universe expands, the redshift of distant sources changes with time. Here we discuss gravitational lensing phenomena that are consequence of the redshift drift between lensed source, gravitational lens, and observer. When the source…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-01 Giovanni Covone , Mauro Sereno

Gravitational microlensing method is a powerful method to detect isolated black holes in the Milky Way. During a microlensing event brightness of the source increases and this feature is used by many photometric surveys to alert on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-06 I. Gezer , Ł. Wyrzykowski , P. Zieliński , G. Marton , K. Kruszyńska , K. A. Rybicki , N. Ihanec , M. Jabłońska , O. Ziółkowska

We report the discovery of a microlensing candidate projected 2'54" from the center of M32, on the side closest to M31. The blue color (R-I= 0.00 +/- 0.14) of the source argues strongly that it lies in the disk of M31, while the proximity…