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We report the extremely high magnification (A > 1000) binary microlensing event OGLE-2007-BLG-514. We obtained good coverage around the double peak structure in the light curve via follow-up observations from different observatories. The…

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

Terrestrial planets born beyond 1-3 AU have been theorized to avoid being engulfed during the red-giant phases of their host stars. Nevertheless, only a few gas-giant planets have been observed around white dwarfs (WDs) -- the end product…

We report the discovery of a planetary system from observation of the high-magnification microlensing event OGLE-2012-BLG-0026. The lensing light curve exhibits a complex central perturbation with multiple features. We find that the…

Recently, the discovery of a Venus-mass planet orbiting a brown-dwarf host in a binary system was reported from the analysis of the microlensing event OGLE-2013-BLG-0723. We reanalyze the event considering the possibility of other…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-06 Cheongho Han , David P. Bennett , Andrzej Udalski , Youn Kil Jung

KMT-2018-BLG-0029Lb and OGLE-2019-BLG-0960Lb were the lowest mass-ratio microlensing planets at the time of discovery. For both events, microlensing parallax measurements from the Spitzer Space Telescope implied lens systems that were more…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-27 Keming Zhang , Sean K. Terry , Joshua S. Bloom , B. Scott Gaudi , Jessica R. Lu

With the aim of interpreting anomalous lensing events with no suggested models, we conducted a project of reinvestigating microlensing data in and before the 2019 season. In this work, we report a multi-planet system OGLE-2019-BLG-0468L…

We present the results of HST observations of the host star for the first definitive extrasolar planet detected by microlensing. The light curve model for this event predicts that the lens star should be separated from the source star by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 David P. Bennett , Jay Anderson , Ian A. Bond , Andrzej Udalski , Andrew Gould

We report a multiplanetary system found from the analysis of microlensing event OGLE-2018-BLG-1011, for which the light curve exhibits a double-bump anomaly around the peak. We find that the anomaly cannot be fully explained by the…

We combine $Spitzer$ and ground-based KMTNet microlensing observations to identify and precisely measure an Earth-mass ($1.43^{+0.45}_{-0.32} M_\oplus$) planet OGLE-2016-BLG-1195Lb at $1.16^{+0.16}_{-0.13}$ AU orbiting a…

We report the discovery and analysis of a candidate triple-lens single-source (3L1S) microlensing event, OGLE-2019-BLG-1470. This event was first classified as a normal binary-lens single-source (2L1S) event, but a careful 2L1S modelling…

We combine statistical arguments and dynamical analysis to study the orbital configuration of the microlensing planetary system OGLE-2012-BLG-0026L. This system is known to host two massive planets, with both projected close to the Einstein…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-17 Sabrina Madsen , Wei Zhu

We search for signatures of planets in 43 intensively monitored microlensing events that were observed between 1995 and 1999. Planets would be expected to cause a short duration (~1 day) deviation on the smooth, symmetric light curve…

Brown dwarfs are important objects because they may provide a missing link between stars and planets, two populations that have dramatically different formation history. In this paper, we present the candidate binaries with brown dwarf…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 I. -G. Shin , C. Han , A. Gould , A. Udalski , T. Sumi , M. Dominik , J. -P. Beaulieu , Y. Tsapras , V. Bozza , M. K. Szymański , M. Kubiak , I. Soszyński , G. Pietrzyński , R. Poleski , K. Ulaczyk , P. Pietrukowicz , S. Kozłowski , J. Skowron , Ł. Wyrzykowski , F. Abe , D. P. Bennett , I. A. Bond , C. S. Botzler , M. Freeman , 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 , G. W. Christie , D. L. Depoy , S. Dong , A. Gal-Yam , B. S. Gaudi , L. -W. Hung , J. Janczak , S. Kaspi , D. Maoz , J. McCormick , D. McGregor , D. Moorhouse , J. A. Muñoz , T. Natusch , C. Nelson , R. W. Pogge , T. -G. Tan , D. Polishook , Y. Shvartzvald , A. Shporer , G. Thornley , U. Malamud , J. C. Yee , J. -Y. Choi , Y. -K. Jung , H. Park , C. -U. Lee , B. -G. Park , J. -R. Koo , D. Bajek , D. M. Bramich , P. Browne , K. Horne , S. Ipatov , C. Snodgrass , I. Steele , R. Street , K. A. Alsubai , M. J. Burgdorf , S. Calchi Novati , P. Dodds , S. Dreizler , X. -S. Fang , F. Grundahl , C. -H. Gu , S. Hardis , K. Harpsøe , T. C. Hinse , M. Hundertmark , J. Jessen-Hansen , U. G. Jørgensen , N. Kains , E. Kerins , C. Liebig , M. Lund , M. Lundkvist , L. Mancini , M. Mathiasen , A. Hornstrup , M. T. Penny , S. Proft , S. Rahvar , D. Ricci , G. Scarpetta , J. Skottfelt , J. Southworth , J. Surdej , J. Tregloan-Reed , O. Wertz , F. Zimmer , M. D. Albrow , V. Batista , 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 , K. Hill , M. Hoffman , 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

We detect a Neptune mass-ratio (q~8e-5) planetary companion to the lens star in the extremely high-magnification (A~800) microlensing event OGLE-2005-BLG-169. If the parent is a main-sequence star, it has mass M~0.5 M_sun implying a planet…

The gravitational microlensing light curves that reveal the presence of extrasolar planets generally yield the planet-star mass ratio and separation in units of the Einstein ring radius. The microlensing method does not require the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 David P. Bennett , Jay Anderson , B. Scott Gaudi

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…