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Planet formation theories predict the existence of free-floating planets that have been ejected from their parent systems. Although they emit little or no light, they can be detected during gravitational microlensing events. Microlensing…

With their excellent photometric precision and dramatic increase in monitoring frequency, future microlensing survey experiments are expected to be sensitive to very short time-scale, isolated events caused by free-floating and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Cheongho Han , B. Scott Gaudi , Jin H. An , Andrew Gould

Global "second-generation" microlensing surveys aim to discover and characterize extrasolar planets and their frequency, by means of round-the-clock high-cadence monitoring of a large area of the Galactic bulge, in a controlled experiment.…

We analyze three years (1998-2000) of OGLE observations of microlensing events to place limits on the abundance of planets with a planet-to-star mass ratio $q=10^{-3}$ at distances $\sim 1-4$AU from their host stars, i.e. `cool Jupiters'.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yiannis Tsapras , Keith Horne , Stephen Kane , Richard Carson

We report the discovery of a planet with a high planet-to-star mass ratio in the microlensing event MOA-2009-BLG-387, which exhibited pronounced deviations over a 12-day interval, one of the longest for any planetary event. The host is an M…

We demonstrate that microlensing can be used for detecting planets in binary stellar systems. This is possible because in the geometry of planetary binary systems where the planet orbits one of the binary component and the other binary star…

We present the details of the Bayesian analysis on the planetary microlensing event MOA-2016-BLG-227, whose excess flux is likely due to a source/lens companion or an unrelated ambient star, as well as of the assumed prior distributions.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-27 Naoki Koshimoto , David P. Bennett , Daisuke Suzuki

We present observations of the unusual microlensing event OGLE 2003-BLG-235/MOA 2003-BLG-53. In this event a short duration (~7 days) low amplitude deviation in the light curve due a single lens profile was observed in both the MOA and OGLE…

We analyze MOA-2010-BLG-311, a high magnification (A_max>600) microlensing event with complete data coverage over the peak, making it very sensitive to planetary signals. We fit this event with both a point lens and a 2-body lens model and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 J. C. Yee , L. -W. Hung , I. A. Bond , W. Allen , L. A. G. Monard , M. D. Albrow , P. Fouque , M. Dominik , Y. Tsapras , A. Udalski , A. Gould , R. Zellem , M. Bos , G. W. Christie , D. L. DePoy , Subo Dong , J. Drummond , B. S. Gaudi , E. Gorbikov , C. Han , S. Kaspi , N. Klein , C. -U. Lee , D. Maoz , J. McCormick , D. Moorhouse , T. Natusch , M. Nola , B. -G. Park , R. W. Pogge , D. Polishook , A. Shporer , Y. Shvartzvald , J. Skowron , G. Thornley , F. Abe , D. P. Bennett , C. S. Botzler , P. Chote , M. Freeman , A. Fukui , K. Furusawa , P. Harris , Y. Itow , C. H. Ling , K. Masuda , Y. Matsubara , N. Miyake , K. Ohnishi , N. J. Rattenbury , To. Saito , D. J. Sullivan , T. Sumi , D. Suzuki , W. L. Sweatman , P. J. Tristram , K. Wada , P. C. M. Yock , M. K. Szymanski , I. Soszynski , M. Kubiak , R. Poleski , K. Ulaczyk , G. Pietrzynski , L. Wyrzykowski , E. Bachelet , V. Batista , T. G. Beatty , J. -P. Beaulieu , C. S. Bennett , R. Bowens-Rubin , S. Brillant , J. A. R. Caldwell , A. Cassan , A. A. Cole , E. Corrales , C. Coutures , S. Dieters , D. Dominis Prester , J. Donatowicz , J. Greenhill , C. B. Henderson , D. Kubas , J. -B. Marquette , R. Martin , J. W. Menzies , B. Shappee , A. Williams , D. Wouters , J. van Saders , M. Zub , R. A. Street , K. Horne , D. M. Bramich , I. A. Steele , K. A. Alsubai , V. Bozza , P. Browne , M. J. Burgdorf , S. Calchi Novati , P. Dodds , F. Finet , T. Gerner , S. Hardis , K. Harpsoe , F. V. Hessman , T. C. Hinse , M. Hundertmark , U. G. Jorgensen , N. Kains , E. Kerins , C. Liebig , L. Mancini , M. Mathiasen , M. T. Penny , S. Proft , S. Rahvar , D. Ricci , K. C. Sahu , G. Scarpetta , S. Schafer , F. Schonebeck , C. Snodgrass , J. Southworth , J. Surdej , J. Wambsgans

We report the discovery of a several-Jupiter mass planetary companion to the primary lens star in microlensing event OGLE-2005-BLG-071. Precise (<1%) photometry at the peak of the event yields an extremely high signal-to-noise ratio…

The probability of detecting a planetary companion of a lensing star during a microlensing event toward the Galactic center, averaged over all relevant event and galactic parameters, when the planet-star mass ratio $q=0.001$ has a maximum…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 S. J. Peale

Among more than 200 extrasolar planet candidates discovered to date, there is no known planet orbiting around normal binary stars. In this paper, we demonstrate that microlensing is a technique that can detect such planets. Microlensing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Cheongho Han

We present the discovery of a substellar companion to the primary host lens in the microlensing event MOA-2012-BLG-006. The companion-to-host mass ratio is 0.016, corresponding to a companion mass of $\approx8~M_{\rm Jup} (M_*/0.5M_\odot)$.…

We investigate the properties of microlensing events caused by planetary systems where planets with a moon are widely separated from their host stars. From this investigation, we find that the moon feature generally appears as an very…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-03 Sun-Ju Chung , Yoon-Hyun Ryu