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(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

A standard binary microlensing event lightcurve allows just two parameters of the lensing system to be measured: the mass ratio of the companion to its host, and the projected separation of the components in units of the Einstein radius.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-03-17 Matthew T. Penny , Shude Mao , Eamonn Kerins

Astrometric observations of microlensing events were originally proposed to determine the lens proper motion with which the physical parameters of lenses can be better constrained. In this proceeding, we demonstrate that besides this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Cheongho Han

The microlens parallax is a crucial observable for conclusively identifying the nature of lens systems in microlensing events containing or composed of faint (even dark) astronomical objects such as planets, neutron stars, brown dwarfs, and…

Quasar microlensing can be used to constrain important astrophysical properties, such as the accretion disk size and the amount of stars in the lensing galaxy. The associated brightness variations over time, in particular high magnification…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-09 Favio Neira , Timo Anguita , Georgios Vernardos

We present nine new binary lens candidates from OGLE-III Early Warning System database for the season of 2005. We have also found four events interpreted as single mass lensing of double sources. The candidates have been selected by visual…

The high gradient of magnification across the source during both small impact parameter events and caustic crossings offers a unique opportunity for determining the surface brightness profile of the source. Furthermore, models indicate that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-08 R. Ignace , J. E. Bjorkman , H. M. Bryce

The light received by source stars in microlensing events may be significantly polarized if both an efficient photon scattering mechanism is active in the source stellar atmosphere and a differential magnification is therein induced by the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 G. Ingrosso , F. De Paolis , A. A. Nucita , F. Strafella , S. Calchi Novati , Ph. Jetzer , G. Liuzzi , A. Zakharov

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…

The microlensing event OGLE-2008-BLG-510 is characterised by an evident asymmetric shape of the peak, promptly detected by the ARTEMiS system in real time. The skewness of the light curve appears to be compatible both with binary-lens and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 V. Bozza , M. Dominik , N. J. Rattenbury , U. G. Joergensen , Y. Tsapras , D. M. Bramich , A. Udalski , I. A. Bond , C. Liebig , A. Cassan , P. Fouque , A. Fukui , M. Hundertmark , I. -G. Shin , S. H. Lee , J. -Y. Choi , S. -Y. Park , A. Gould , A. Allan , S. Mao , L. Wyrzykowski , R. A. Street , D. Buckley , T. Nagayama , M. Mathiasen , T. C. Hinse , S. Calchi Novati , K. Harpsoee , L. Mancini , G. Scarpetta , T. Anguita , M. J. Burgdorf , K. Horne , A. Hornstrup , N. Kains , E. Kerins , P. Kjaergaard , G. Masi , S. Rahvar , D. Ricci , C. Snodgrass , J. Southworth , I. A. Steele , J. Surdej , C. C. Thoene , J. Wambsganss , M. Zub , M. D. Albrow , V. Batista , J. -P. Beaulieu , D. P. Bennett , J. A. R. Caldwell , A Cole , K. H. Cook , C. Coutures , S. Dieters , D. Dominis Prester , J. Donatowicz , J. Greenhill , S. R. Kane , D. Kubas , J. -B. Marquette , R. Martin , J. Menzies , K. R. Pollard , K. C. Sahu , A. Williams , M. K. Szymanski , M. Kubiak , G. Pietrzynski , I. Soszynski , R. Poleski , K. Ulaczyk , D. L. DePoy , S. Dong , C. Han , J. Janczak , C. -U. Lee , R. W. Pogge , F. Abe , K. Furusawa , J. B. Hearnshaw , Y. Itow , P. M. Kilmartin , A. V. Korpela , W. Lin , C. H. Ling , K. Masuda , Y. Matsubara , N. Miyake , Y. Muraki , K. Ohnishi , Y. C. Perrott , To. Saito , L. Skuljan , D. J. Sullivan , T. Sumi , D. Suzuki , W. L. Sweatman , P. J. Tristram , K. Wada , P. C. M. Yock , A. Gulbis , Y. Hashimoto , A. Kniazev , P. Vaisanen

(abridged) Using the particularly long gravitational microlensing event OGLE-2014-BLG-1186 with a time-scale $t_\mathrm{E}$ ~ 300 d, we present a methodology for identifying the nature of localised deviations from single-lens point-source…

A planetary microlensing signal is generally characterized by a short-term perturbation to the standard single lensing light curve. A subset of binary-source events can produce perturbations that mimic planetary signals, thereby introducing…

Since the first observation of triple-lens gravitational microlensing in 2006, analyses of six more events have been published by the end of 2018. In three events the lens was a star with two planets; four involved a binary star with a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-30 Kamil Danek , David Heyrovsky

The lightcurve of PA-99-N2, one of the recently announced microlensing candidates towards M31, shows small deviations from the standard Paczynski form. We explore a number of possible explanations, including correlations with the seeing,…

Gravitational microlensing with binary lensing is one of the channels for detecting exoplanets. Due to the degeneracy of the lens parameters for the binary microlensing, additional features such as parallax and finite-size effects need to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-15 Samaneh Sarbaz , Sohrab Rahvar

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