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OGLE-2018-BLG-0022: A Nearby M-dwarf Binary

We report observations of the binary microlensing event OGLE-2018-BLG-0022, provided by the ROME/REA Survey, which indicate that the lens is a low-mass binary star consisting of M3 (0.375+/-0.020 Msun) and M7 (0.098+/-0.005 Msun)…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-15 R. A. Street , E. Bachelet , Y. Tsapras , M. P. G. Hundertmark , V. Bozza , M. Dominik , D. M. Bramich , A. Cassan , K. Horne , S. Mao , A. Saha , J. Wambsganss , Weicheng Zang , U. G. Jorgensen , P. Longa-Pena , N. Peixinho , S. Sajadian , M. J. Burgdorf , J. Campbell-White , S. Dib , D. F. Evans , Y. I. Fujii , T. C. Hinse , E. Khalouei , S. Lowry , S. Rahvar , M. Rabus , J. Skottfelt , C. Snodgrass , J. Southworth , J. Tregloan-Reed

MACHO Alert 95-30 : First Real-Time Observation of Extended Source Effects in Gravitational Microlensing

We present analysis of MACHO Alert 95-30, a dramatic gravitational microlensing event towards the Galactic bulge whose peak magnification departs significantly from the standard point-source microlensing model. Alert 95-30 was observed in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 C. Alcock , W. H. Allen , R. A. Allsman , D. Alves , T. S. Axelrod , T. S. Banks , S. F. Beaulieu , A. C. Becker , R. H. Becker , D. P. Bennett , I. A. Bond , B. S. Carter , K. H. Cook , R. J. Dodd , K. C. Freeman , M. Gregg , K. Griest , J. B. Hearnshaw , A. Heller , M. Honda , J. Jugaku , S. Kabe , S. Kaspi , P. M. Kilmartin , A. Kitamura , O. Kovo , M. J. Lehner , T. E. Love , D. Maoz , S. L. Marshall , Y. Matsubara , D. Minniti , M. Miyamoto , Y. Muraki , T. Nakamura , B. A. Peterson , M. R. Pratt , P. J. Quinn , I. N. Reid , M. Reid , D. Reiss , A. Retter , A. W. Rodgers , W. L. W. Sargent , H. Sato , M. Sekiguchi , P. B. Stetson , C. W. Stubbs , D. J. Sullivan , W. Sutherland , A. Tomaney , T. Vandehei , Y. Watase , D. L. Welch , T. Yanagisawa , M. Yoshizawa , P. C. M. Yock

The Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment. Catalog of Microlensing Events in the Galactic Bulge

We present the Catalog of microlensing events detected toward the Galactic bulge in three observing seasons, 1997--1999, during the OGLE-II microlensing survey. The search for microlensing events was performed using a database of about…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Udalski , K. Zebrun , M. Szymanski , M. Kubiak , G. Pietrzynski , I. Soszynski , P. Wozniak

Determination of stellar shape in microlensing event MOA 2002-BLG-33

We report a measurement of the shape of the source star in microlensing event MOA 2002-BLG-33. The lens for this event was a close binary whose centre-of-mass passed almost directly in front of the source star. At this time, the source star…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. J. Rattenbury , F. Abe , D. P. Bennett , I. A. Bond , J. J. Calitz , A. Claret , K. H. Cook , Y. Furuta , A. Gal-Yam , J-F. Glicenstein , J. B. Hearnshaw , P. H. Hauschildt , P. M. Kilmartin , Y. Kurata , K. Masuda , D. Maoz , Y. Matsubara , P. J. Meintjes , M. Moniez , Y. Muraki , S. Noda , E. O. Ofek , K. Okajima , L. Philpott , S. H. Rhie , T. Sako , D. J. Sullivan , T. Sumi , D. M. Terndrup , P. J. Tristram , J. Wood , T. Yanagisawa , P. C. M. Yock

A Super-Jupiter orbiting a late-type star: A refined analysis of microlensing event OGLE-2012-BLG-0406

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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Gravitational Microlensing Rates in Milky Way Globular Clusters

Many recent observational and theoretical studies suggest that globular clusters (GCs) host compact object populations large enough to play dominant roles in their overall dynamical evolution. Yet direct detection, particularly of black…

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Microlensing planets in M22: free-floating or bound?

We use detailed numerical simulations and theoretical estimates to show that, if confirmed, the unusually brief microlensing events observed by Sahu et al. (2001) in the field of the globular cluster M22 might be explained as a result of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. de la Fuente Marcos , C. de la Fuente Marcos

Gravitational Microlensing, The Distance Scale, And The Ages

A high optical depth to gravitational microlensing towards the galactic bulge is consistent with current models of the galactic bar. The low optical depth towards the LMC can probably be accounted for by the ordinary stars in our galaxy and…

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First detection of a gravitational microlensing candidate towards the Small Magellanic Cloud

We report the first discovery of a gravitational microlensing candidate towards a new population of source stars, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). The candidate event's light curve shows no variation for 3 years before an upward excursion…

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Microlensing of Globular Clusters as a Probe of Galactic Structure

The spatial distribution of compact dark matter in our Galaxy can be determined in a few years of monitoring Galactic globular clusters for microlensing. Globular clusters are the only dense fields of stars distributed throughout the…

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Microlensing of pulsar radiation in the Galactic Center

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…

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MOA 2011-BLG-028Lb: a Neptune-mass Microlensing Planet in the Galactic Bulge

We present the discovery of a Neptune-mass planet orbiting a 0.8 +- 0.3 M_Sun star in the Galactic bulge. The planet manifested itself during the microlensing event MOA 2011-BLG-028/OGLE-2011-BLG-0203 as a low-mass companion to the lens…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 J. Skowron , A. Udalski , R. Poleski , S. Kozłowski , M. K. Szymański , Ł. Wyrzykowski , K. Ulaczyk , P. Pietrukowicz , G. Pietrzyński , I. Soszyński , F. Abe , D. P. Bennett , A. Bhattacharya , I. A. Bond , M. Freeman , A. Fukui , Y. Hirao , Y. Itow , N. Koshimoto , C. H. Ling , K. Masuda , Y. Matsubara , Y. Muraki , M. Nagakane , K. Ohnishi , N. Rattenbury , To. Saito , D. J. Sullivan , T. Sumi , D. Suzuki , P. J. Tristram , A. Yonehara , M. Dominik , U. G. Jørgensen , V. Bozza , K. Harpsøe , M. Hundertmark , J. Skottfelt

Precise mass measurement of OGLE-2013-BLG-0132/MOA-2013-BLG-148: a Saturn mass planet orbiting an M-dwarf

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…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-01 Natalia E. Rektsini , Virginie Batista , Clement Ranc , David P. Bennett , Jean-Philippe Beaulieu , Joshua W. Blackman , Andrew A. Cole , Sean K. Terry , Naoki Koshimoto , Aparna Bhattacharya , Aikaterini Vandorou , Thomas J. Plunkett , Jean-Baptiste Marquette

Recent Microlensing Results from the MACHO Project

We describe a few recent microlensing results from the MACHO Collaboration. The aim of the MACHO Project was the identification and quantitative description of dark and luminous matter in the Milky Way using microlensing toward the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Popowski , C. A. Nelson , D. P. Bennett , A. J. Drake , T. Vandehei , K. Griest , K. H. Cook , C. Alcock , R. A. Allsman , D. R. Alves , T. S. Axelrod , A. C. Becker , K. C. Freeman , M. Geha , M. J. Lehner , S. L. Marshall , D. Minniti , B. A. Peterson , P. J. Quinn , C. W. Stubbs , W. Sutherland , D. Welch

The Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment. Follow-Up Observations of the Macho Microlensing Event in the Galactic Bulge

We present follow-up observations of a gravitational microlensing candidate found by the MACHO collaboration in the Galactic bulge. The photometric data cover a period near the maximum of the event and may be used to construct complete…

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Discovery of a Gas giant Planet in Microlensing Event OGLE-2014-BLG-1760

We present the analysis of the planetary microlensing event OGLE-2014-BLG-1760, which shows a strong light curve signal due to the presence of a Jupiter mass-ratio planet. One unusual feature of this event is that the source star is quite…

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The Outer Envelopes of Globular Clusters. I. NGC 7089 (M2)

We present the results of a wide-field imaging survey of the periphery of the Milky Way globular cluster NGC 7089 (M2). Data were obtained with MegaCam on the Magellan Clay Telescope, and the Dark Energy Camera on the Blanco Telescope. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-03 P. B. Kuzma , G. S. Da Costa , A. D. Mackey , T. A. Roderick

Candidate Gravitational Microlensing Events for Future Direct Lens Imaging

The mass of the lenses giving rise to Galactic microlensing events can be constrained by measuring the relative lens-source proper motion and lens flux. The flux of the lens can be separated from that of the source, companions to the…

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Microlensing events in the Galactic bulge

For the first time we detected microlensing events at zero latitude in the Galactic bulge using the VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea Survey (VVV) data. We have discovered a total sample of N = 630 events within an area covering 20.7 sq.…

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OGLE-2017-BLG-1186: first application of asteroseismology and Gaussian processes to microlensing

We present the analysis of the event OGLE-2017-BLG-1186 from the 2017 Spitzer microlensing campaign. This is a remarkable microlensing event because its source is photometrically bright and variable, which makes it possible to perform an…

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