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Microscopes and various forms of interferometers have been used for decades in optical metrology of objects that are typically larger than the wavelength of light {\lambda}. However, metrology of subwavelength objects was deemed impossible…

We consider a contribution of microlensing in X-ray variability of high-redshifted QSOs. Such an effect could be caused by stellar mass objects (SMO) located in a bulge or/and in a halo of this quasar as well as at cosmological distances…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. F. Zakharov , L. C. Popovic , P. Jovanovic

In recent years, gravitational lensing has been used as a means to detect substructure in galaxy-sized halos, via anomalous flux ratios in quadruply-imaged lenses. In addition to causing anomalous flux ratios, substructure may also perturb…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Jacqueline Chen , Eduardo Rozo , Neal Dalal , James E. Taylor

Radio observations with the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) provide the agility, sensitivity, and spectral coverage to trace the evolution of the size, shape and spectra of gamma-ray burst (GRB) remnants from the earliest moments on. In the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. J. Galama , A. G. De Bruyn

We investigate gravitational microlensing signals produced by a spatially extended object transiting in front of a finite-sized source star. The most interesting features arise for lens and source sizes comparable to the Einstein radius of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-28 Djuna Croon , David McKeen , Nirmal Raj , Zihui Wang

The longest microlensing events provide enough information to estimate the mass and distance of the lens. Among hundreds of millions of stars which were monitored for many years by the OGLE project we selected those with clear parallax…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-13 Łukasz Wyrzykowski , Zuzanna Kostrzewa-Rutkowska , Krzysztof Rybicki

Microlensing searches toward the inner galaxy $(|l|,|b|\leq 22.\hskip-2pt'5)$ have several major advantages. First, the event rate is strongly dominated by bulge-bulge lensing events where both the source and lens lie in the bulge. Second,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Andrew Gould

Following previous suggestions of other researchers, this paper discusses the prospects for astrometric observation of MACHO gravitational microlensing events. We derive the expected astrometric observables for a simple microlensing event…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. F. Boden , M. Shao , D. Van Buren

We investigate the possibility of identifying massive objects (lenses) in the Galactic Center region (GC) by means of pulsar timing. The well known intensity change due to microlensing is found to be less important. For typical stellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 N. Wex , J. Gil , M. Sendyk

Rapidly rotating neutron stars are promising sources for existing and upcoming gravitational-wave interferometers. While relatively dim, these systems are expected to emit continuously, allowing for signal to be accumulated through…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-11 Arthur G. Suvorov

Microlensing events are now regularly being detected by monitoring the flux of a large number of potential sources and measuring the combined magnification of the images. This phenomenon could also be detected directly from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Jordi Miralda-Escude

Microlensing not only brings extra magnification lightcurves on top of the intrinsic ones but also shifts them in time domain, making the actual time-delays between images of strongly lensed active galactic nucleus change on the $\sim$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-06 Kai Liao

Microlenses with typical stellar masses (a few ${\rm M}_{\odot}$) have traditionally been disregarded as potential sources of gravitational lensing effects at LIGO/Virgo frequencies, since the time delays are often much smaller than the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-24 J. M. Diego , O. A. Hannuksela , P. L. Kelly , T. Broadhurst , K. Kim , T. G. F. Li , G. F. Smoot

Strongly lensed gravitational waves may pass through the stellar field of a lensing galaxy with additional modulations (on both phase and amplitude) due to gravitational microlensing effect of stars/remnants near the line of sight. These…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-21 Zhaoqi Su , Xikai Shan , Zhenwei Lyu , Junyao Zhang , Yebin Liu , Shude Mao , Huan Yang

Microlensing is sensitive to binary, brown dwarf, and planetary companions to normal stars in the Galactic bulge with separations between about 1-10 AU. The accurate, densely-sampled photometry of microlensing events needed to detect…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Scott Gaudi

Microlensing events can be used to directly measure the masses of single field stars to a precision of $\sim$1-10\%. The majority of direct mass measurements for stellar and sub-stellar objects typically only come from observations of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-09 M. B. Nielsen , D. M. Bramich

Massive objects located between Earth and a compact binary merger can act as a magnifying glass improving the sensitivity of gravitational wave detectors to distant events. Depending on the parameters of the system, a point mass lens…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-27 Ruxandra Bondarescu , Helena Ubach , Oleg Bulashenko , Andrew P. Lundgren

Weak gravitational lensing is a powerful probe of cosmology and has emerged as a key probe for the Dark Universe. Up till now this science has been conducted mainly at optical wavelengths. Current upgraded and future radio facilities will…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-25 Prina Patel

A moving mass makes a gravitational wake in the partially ionized interstellar medium, which acts as a lens for radio-frequency light. Consequently, plasma microlensing could complement gravitational microlensing in the search for invisible…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-29 M. Sten Delos

In recent years, deep learning has been successfully applied in various scientific domains. Following these promising results and performances, it has recently also started being evaluated in the domain of radio astronomy. In particular,…