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Microlensing planets occurring on faint source stars can escape detection due to their weak signals. Occasionally, detections of such planets are not reported due to the difficulty of extracting high-profile scientific issues on the…

We report the discovery and analysis of the planetary microlensing event OGLE-2017-BLG-0406, which was observed both from the ground and by the ${\it Spitzer}$ satellite in a solar orbit. At high magnification, the anomaly in the light…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-29 Yuki Hirao , David P. Bennett , Yoon-Hyun Ryu , Naoki Koshimoto , Andrzej Udalski , Jennifer C. Yee , Takahiro Sumi , Ian A. Bond , Yossi Shvartzvald , Fumio Abe , Richard K. Barry , Aparna Bhattacharya , Martin Donachie , Akihiko Fukui , Yoshitaka Itow , Iona Kondo , Man Cheung Alex Li , Yutaka Matsubara , Taro Matsuo , Shota Miyazaki , Yasushi Muraki , Masayuki Nagakane , Clement Ranc , Nicholas J. Rattenbury , Haruno Suematsu , Hiroshi Shibai , Daisuke Suzuki , Paul J. Tristram , Atsunori Yonehara , J. Skowron , R. Poleski , P. Mroz , M. K. Szymanski , I. Soszynski , S. Kozlowski , P. Pietrukowicz , K. Ulaczyk , K. Rybicki , P. Iwanek , Michael D. Albrow , Sun-Ju Chung , Andrew Gould , Cheongho Han , Kyu-Ha Hwang , Youn Kil Jung , In-Gu Shin , Weicheng Zang , Sang-Mok Cha , Dong-Jin Kim , Hyoun-Woo Kim , Seung-Lee Kim , Chung-Uk Lee , Dong-Joo Lee , Yongseok Lee , Byeong-Gon Park , Richard W. Pogge , Charles A. Beichman , Geoffery Bryden , Sebastiano Calchi Novati , Sean Carey , B. Scott Gaudi , Calen B. Henderson , Wei Zhu , Etienne Bachelet , Greg Bolt , Grant Christie , Markus Hundertmark , Tim Natusch , Dan Maoz , Jennie McCormick , Rachel A. Street , Thiam-Guan Tan , Yiannis Tsapras , U. G. Jorgensen , M. Dominik , V. Bozza , J. Skottfelt , C. Snodgrass , S. Ciceri , R. Figuera Jaimes , D. F. Evans , N. Peixinho , T. C. Hinse , M. J. Burgdorf , J. Southworth , S. Rahvar , S. Sajadian , M. Rabus , C. von Essen , Y. I. Fujii , J. Campbell-White , S. Lowry , C. Helling , L. Mancini , L. Haikala , Ryo Kandori

Of all planet-finding techniques, microlensing is potentially the most sensitive to Earth-mass planets. However, microlensing lightcurves generically yield only the planet-star mass ratio: the mass itself is uncertain to a factor of a few.…

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Gravitational microlensing is known to be an impressive tool for searching dark, small, and compact objects that are missed by the usual astronomical observations. In this paper, by analysing multiple images acquired by DECam, we present…

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Exoplanets classified as super-Earths are commonly observed on short period orbits, close to their host stars, but their abundance on wider orbits is poorly constrained. Gravitational microlensing is sensitive to exoplanets on wide orbits.…

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We revisit the planetary microlensing event OGLE-2013-BLG-0132/MOA-2013-BLG-148 using Keck adaptive optics imaging in 2013 with NIRC2 and in 2020, 7.4 years after the event, with OSIRIS. The 2020 observations yield a source and lens…

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The kinematics of isolated brown dwarfs in the Galaxy, beyond the solar neighborhood, is virtually unknown. Microlensing has the potential to probe this hidden population, as it can measure both the mass and five of the six phase-space…

We inspect 4 microlensing events KMT-2021-BLG-1968, KMT-2021-BLG-2010, KMT-2022-BLG-0371, and KMT-2022-BLG-1013, for which the light curves exhibit partially covered short-term central anomalies. We conduct detailed analyses of the events…

Light curves of microlensing events occasionally deviate from the smooth and symmetric form of a single-lens single-source event. While most of these anomalous events can be accounted for by employing a binary-lens single-source (2L1S) or a…

We present the analysis of the binary gravitational microlensing event MOA-2015-BLG-020. The event has a fairly long timescale (about 63 days) and thus the light curve deviates significantly from the lensing model that is based on the…

MOA-2006-BLG-074 was selected as one of the most promising planetary candidates in a retrospective analysis of the MOA collaboration: its asymmetric high-magnification peak can be perfectly explained by a source passing across a central…

We present a detailed analysis of survey and follow-up observations of microlensing event OGLE-2012-BLG-0406 based on data obtained from 10 different observatories. Intensive coverage of the lightcurve, especially the perturbation part,…

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