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KMT-2021-BLG-1898: Planetary microlensing event involved with binary source stars

The light curve of the microlensing event KMT-2021-BLG-1898 exhibits a short-term central anomaly with double-bump features that cannot be explained by the usual binary-lens or binary-source interpretations. With the aim of interpreting the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-03 Cheongho Han , Andrew Gould , Doeon Kim , Youn Kil Jung , Michael D. Albrow , Sun-Ju Chung , Kyu-Ha Hwang , Chung-Uk Lee , Yoon-Hyun Ryu , In-Gu Shin , Yossi Shvartzvald , Jennifer C. Yee , Weicheng Zang , Sang-Mok Cha , Dong-Jin Kim , Seung-Lee Kim , Dong-Joo Lee , Yongseok Lee , Byeong-Gon Park , Richard W. Pogge

The second multiple-planet system discovered by microlensing: OGLE-2012-BLG-0026Lb, c, a pair of jovian planets beyond the snow line

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…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 C. Han , A. Udalski , J. -Y. Choi , J. C. Yee , A. Gould , G. Christie , T. -G. Tan , M. K. Szymański , M. Kubiak , I. Soszyński , G. Pietrzyński , R. Poleski , K. Ulaczyk , P. Pietrukowicz , S. Kozłowski , J. Skowron , Ł. Wyrzykowski , L. A. Almeida , V. Batista , D. L. Depoy , Subo Dong , J. Drummond , B. S. Gaudi , K. -H. Hwang , F. Jablonski , Y. -K. Jung , C. -U. Lee , J. -R. Koo , J. McCormick , L. A. G. Monard , T. Natusch , H. Ngan , H. Park , R. W. Pogge , Ian Porritt , I. -G. Shin

Detecting Stellar Spots by Gravitational Microlensing

During microlensing events with a small impact parameter, the amplification of the source flux is sensitive to the surface brightness distribution of the source star. Such events provide a means for studying the surface structure of target…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 David Heyrovsky , Dimitar Sasselov

A Puzzle Involving Galactic Bulge Microlensing Events

We study a sample of 16 microlensed Galactic bulge main sequence turnoff region stars for which high dispersion spectra have been obtained with detailed abundance analyses. We demonstrate that there is a very strong and highly statistically…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 Judith G. Cohen , Andrew Gould , Ian B. Thompson , Sofia Feltzing , Thomas Bensby , Jennifer A. Johnson , Wenjin Huang , Jorge Melendez , Sara Lucatello , Martin Asplund

A Giant Planet beyond the Snow Line in Microlensing Event OGLE-2011-BLG-0251

We present the analysis of the gravitational microlensing event OGLE-2011-BLG-0251. This anomalous event was observed by several survey and follow-up collaborations conducting microlensing observations towards the Galactic Bulge. Based on…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 N. Kains , R. Street , J. -Y. Choi , C. Han , A. Udalski , L. A. Almeida , F. Jablonski , P. Tristram , U. G. Jorgensen , M. K. Szymanski , M. Kubiak , G. Pietrzynski , I. Soszynski , R. Poleski , S. Kozlowski , P. Pietrukowicz , K. Ulaczyk , L. Wyrzykowski , J. Skowron , K. A. Alsubai , V. Bozza , P. Browne , M. J. Burgdorf , S. Calchi Novati , P. Dodds , M. Dominik , S. Dreizler , X. -S. Fang , F. Grundahl , C. -H. Gu , S. Hardis , K. Harpsoe , F. V. Hessman , T. C. Hinse , A. Hornstrup , M. Hundertmark , J. Jessen-Hansen , E. Kerins , C. Liebig , M. Lund , M. Lundkvist , L. Mancini , M. Mathiasen , M. T. Penny , S. Rahvar , D. Ricci , K. C. Sahu , G. Scarpetta , J. Skottfelt , C. Snodgrass , J. Southworth , J. Surdej , J. Tregloan-Reed , J. Wambsganss , O. Wertz , D. Bajek , D. M. Bramich , K. Horne , S. Ipatov , I. A. Steele , Y. Tsapras , F. Abe , D. P. Bennett , I. A. Bond , C. S. Botzler , P. Chote , M. Freeman , A. Fukui , K. Furusawa , Y. Itow , C. H. Ling , K. Masuda , Y. Matsubara , N. Miyake , Y. Muraki , K. Ohnishi , N. Rattenbury , T. Saito , D. J. Sullivan , T. Sumi , D. Suzuki , K. Suzuki , W. L. Sweatman , S. Takino , K. Wada , P. C. M. Yock , W. Allen , V. Batista , S. -J. Chung , G. Christie , D. L. DePoy , J. Drummond , B. S. Gaudi , A. Gould , C. Henderson , Y. -K. Jung , J. -R. Koo , C. -U. Lee , J. McCormick , D. McGregor , J. A. Munoz , T. Natusch , H. Ngan , H. Park , R. W. Pogge , I. -G. Shin , J. Yee , M. D. Albrow , E. Bachelet , J. -P. Beaulieu , S. Brillant , J. A. R. Caldwell , A. Cassan , A. Cole , E. Corrales , Ch. Coutures , S. Dieters , D. Dominis Prester , J. Donatowicz , P. Fouque , J. Greenhill , S. R. Kane , D. Kubas , J. -B. Marquette , R. Martin , P. Meintjes , J. Menzies , K. R. Pollard , A. Williams , D. Wouters , M. Zub

OGLE 2008--BLG--290: An accurate measurement of the limb darkening of a Galactic Bulge K Giant spatially resolved by microlensing

Gravitational microlensing is not only a successful tool for discovering distant exoplanets, but it also enables characterization of the lens and source stars involved in the lensing event. In high magnification events, the lens caustic may…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 P. Fouque , D. Heyrovsky , S. Dong , A. Gould , A. Udalski , M. D. Albrow , V. Batista , J. -P. Beaulieu , D. P. Bennett , I. A. Bond , D. M. Bramich , S. Calchi Novati , A. Cassan , C. Coutures , S. Dieters , M. Dominik , D. Dominis Prester , J. Greenhill , K. Horne , U. G. Jorgensen , S. Kozlowski , D. Kubas , C. -H. Lee , J. -B. Marquette , M. Mathiasen , J. Menzies , L. A. G. Monard , S. Nishiyama , I. Papadakis , R. Street , T. Sumi , A. Williams , J. C. Yee , S. Brillant , J. A. R. Caldwell , A. Cole , K. H. Cook , J. Donatowicz , N. Kains , S. R. Kane , R. Martin , K. R. Pollard , K. C. Sahu , Y. Tsapras , J. Wambsganss , M. Zub , D. L. DePoy , B. S. Gaudi , C. Han , C. -U. Lee , B. -G. Park , R. W. Pogge , M. Kubiak , M. K. Szymanski , G. Pietrzynski , I. Soszynski , O. Szewczyk , K. Ulaczyk , L. Wyrzykowski , F. Abe , A. Fukui , K. Furusawa , A. C. Gilmore , J. B. Hearnshaw , Y. Itow , K. ~Kamiya , P. M. Kilmartin , A. V. Korpela , W. Lin , C. H. Ling , K. Masuda , Y. Matsubara , N. Miyake , Y. Muraki , M. Nagaya , K. Ohnishi , T. Okumura , Y. Perrott , N. J. Rattenbury , To. Saito , T. Sako , S. Sato , L. Skuljan , D. Sullivan , W. Sweatman , P. J. Tristram , P. C. M. Yock , A. Allan , M. F. Bode , M. J. Burgdorf , N. Clay , S. N. Fraser , E. Hawkins , E. Kerins , T. A. Lister , C. J. Mottram , E. S. Saunders , C. Snodgrass , I. A. Steele , P. J. Wheatley , T. Anguita , V. Bozza , K. Harpsoe , T. C. Hinse , M. Hundertmark , P. Kjaergaard , C. Liebig , L. Mancini , G. Masi , S. Rahvar , D. Ricci , G. Scarpetta , J. Southworth , J. Surdej , C. C. Thone , A. Riffeser , S. ~Seitz , R. Bender

Lensing of unresolved stars towards the Galactic Bulge

Previous calculations of the rates and optical depths due to microlensing only considered resolved stars. However, if a faint unresolved star lens is close enough to a resolved star, the event will be seen by the microlensing experiments…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Alard

Full characterization of binary-lens event OGLE-2002-BLG-069 from PLANET observations

We analyze the photometric data obtained by PLANET and OGLE on the caustic-crossing binary-lens microlensing event OGLE-2002-BLG-069. Thanks to the excellent photometric and spectroscopic coverage of the event, we are able to constrain the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Kubas , A. Cassan , J. P. Beaulieu , C. Coutures , M. Dominik , M. D. Albrow , S. Brillant , J. A. R. Caldwell , D. Dominis , J. Donatowicz , P. Fouque , U. G. Jorgensen , J. Greenhill , K. Hill , K. Horne , S. Kane , J. B. Marquette , R. Martin , J. Menzies , K. R. Pollard , K. C. Sahu , C. Vinter , J. Wambsganss , R. Watson , A. Williams , C. Fendt , J. Heinmueller , C. Thurl

Four Microlensing Planets with Faint-source Stars Identified in the 2016 and 2017 Season Data

Microlensing planets occurring on faint source stars can escape detection due to their weak signals. Occasionally, detections of such planets are not reported due to the difficulty of extracting high-profile scientific issues on the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-21 Cheongho Han , Andrzej Udalski , Doeon Kim , Youn Kil Jung , Yoon-Hyun Ryu , Michael D. Albrow , Sun-Ju Chung , Andrew Gould , Kyu-Ha Hwang , Chung-Uk Lee , In-Gu Shin , Yossi Shvartzvald , Jennifer C. Yee , Weicheng Zang , Sang-Mok Cha , Dong-Jin Kim , Hyoun-Woo Kim , Seung-Lee Kim , Dong-Joo Lee , Yongseok Lee , Byeong-Gon Park , Richard W. Pogge , Chun-Hwey Kim , Woong-Tae Kim , Przemek Mróz , Michał K. Szymański , Jan Skowron , Radek Poleski , Igor Soszyński , Paweł Pietrukowicz , Szymon Kozłowski , Krzysztof Ulaczyk , Krzysztof A. Rybicki , Patryk Iwanek , Marcin Wrona

Three faint-source microlensing planets detected via resonant-caustic channel

We conducted a project of reinvestigating the 2017--2019 microlensing data collected by the high-cadence surveys with the aim of finding planets that were missed due to the deviations of planetary signals from the typical form of short-term…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-17 Cheongho Han , Andrzej Udalski , Doeon Kim , Yoon-Hyun Ryu , Valerio Bozza , Michael D. Albrow , Sun-Ju Chung , Andrew Gould , Kyu-Ha Hwang , Youn Kil Jung , Chung-Uk Lee , In-Gu Shin , Yossi Shvartzvald , Jennifer C. Yee , Weicheng Zang , Sang-Mok Cha , Dong-Jin Kim , Hyoun-Woo Kim , Seung-Lee Kim , Dong-Joo Lee , Yongseok Lee , Byeong-Gon Park , Richard W. Pogge , Przemek Mróz , Michał K. Szymański , Jan Skowron , Radosław Poleski , Igor Soszyński , Paweł Pietrukowicz , Szymon Kozłowski , Krzysztof Ulaczyk , Krzysztof A. Rybicki , Patryk Iwanek , Marcin Wrona , Mariusz Gromadzki

Three binary-source binary-lens microlensing events from the 2024 microlensing campaign

We investigated microlensing events detected by the OGLE and KMTNet surveys during the 2024 observing season, focusing on those that exhibit very complex anomaly features. Through this analysis, we found that the light curves of three…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-16 Cheongho Han , Chung-Uk Lee , Andrzej Udalski , Michael D. Albrow , Sun-Ju Chung , Andrew Gould , Youn Kil Jung , Kyu-Ha Hwang , Yoon-Hyun Ryu , Yossi Shvartzvald , In-Gu Shin , Jennifer C. Yee , Weicheng Zang , Hongjing Yang , Doeon Kim , Dong-Jin Kim , Byeong-Gon Park , Przemek Mróz , Michał K. Szymański , Jan Skowron , Radosław Poleski , Igor Soszyński , Paweł Pietrukowicz , Szymon Kozłowski , Krzysztof A. Rybicki , Patryk Iwanek , Krzysztof Ulaczyk , Marcin Wrona , Mariusz Gromadzki , Mateusz J. Mróz

Gravitational Microlensing and Dark Matter Problem: Results and Perspectives

Foundations of standard theory of microlensing are described, namely we consider microlensing stars in Galactic bulge, the Magellanic Clouds or other nearby galaxies. We suppose that gravitational microlenses lie between an Earth observer…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. F. Zakharov

A study of the Mg II 2796.34 A emission line in late--type normal, and RS CVn stars

We carry out an analysis of the Mg II 2796.34 A emission line in RS CVn stars and make a comparison with the normal stars studied in a previous paper (Paper I). The sample of RS CVn stars consists of 34 objects with known HIPPARCOS…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Cardini , A. Cassatella , M. Badiali , A. Altamore , M. J. Fernandez-Figueroa

The Microlensing Event Rate and Optical Depth from MOA-II 9 year Survey toward the Galactic Bulge

We present measurements of the microlensing optical depth and event rate toward the Galactic bulge using the dataset from the 2006--2014 MOA-II survey, which covers 22 bulge fields spanning ~42 deg^2 between -5 deg < l < 10 deg and -7 deg <…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-01 Kansuke Nunota , Takahiro Sumi , Naoki Koshimoto , Nicholas J. Rattenbury , Fumio Abe , Richard Barry , David P. Bennett , Aparna Bhattacharya , Akihiko Fukui , Ryusei Hamada , Shunya Hamada , Naoto Hamasaki , Yuki Hirao , Stela Ishitani Silva , Yoshitaka Itow , Yutaka Matsubara , Shota Miyazaki , Yasushi Muraki , Tsutsumi Nagai , Greg Olmschenk , Clement Ranc , Yuki K. Satoh , Daisuke Suzuki , Paul J. Tristram , Aikaterini Vandorou , Hibiki Yama

KMT-2019-BLG-0797: binary-lensing event occurring on a binary stellar system

We analyze the microlensing event KMT-2019-BLG-0797. The light curve of the event exhibits two anomalous features from a single-lens single-source model, and we aim to reveal the nature of the anomaly. It is found that a model with two…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-26 Cheongho Han , Chung-Uk Lee , Yoon-Hyun Ryu , Doeon Kim , Michael D. Albrow , Sun-Ju Chung , Andrew Gould , Kyu-Ha Hwang , Youn Kil Jung , Hyoun-Woo Kim , In-Gu Shin , Yossi Shvartzvald , Jennifer C. Yee , Weicheng Zang , Sang-Mok Cha , Dong-Jin Kim , Seung-Lee Kim , Dong-Joo Lee , Yongseok Lee , Byeong-Gon Park , Richard W. Pogge

Gravitational Microlensing by Neutron Stars and Radio Pulsars: Event Rates, Timescale Distributions, and Mass Measurements

We investigate properties of Galactic microlensing events in which a stellar object is lensed by a neutron star. For an all-sky photometric microlensing survey, we determine the number of lensing events caused by $\sim10^{5}$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-07-03 Shi Dai , Martin C. Smith , Mengxiang Lin , Youling Yue , George Hobbs , Renxin Xu

Microlensing Constraints on Low-Mass Companions

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

OGLE-2017-BLG-0537: Microlensing Event with a Resolvable Lens in $\lesssim 5$ years from High-resolution Follow-up Observations

We present the analysis of the binary-lens microlensing event OGLE-2017-BLG-0537. The light curve of the event exhibits two strong caustic-crossing spikes among which the second caustic crossing was resolved by high-cadence surveys. It is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-15 Y. K. Jung , C. Han , A. Udalski , A. Gould , M. D. Albrow , S. -J. Chung , K. -H. Hwang , C. -U. Lee , Y. -H. Ryu , I. -G. Shin , Y. Shvartzvald , J. C. Yee , W. Zang , W. Zhu , S. -M. Cha , D. -J. Kim , H. -W. Kim , S. -L. Kim , D. -J. Lee , Y. Lee , B. -G. Park , R. W. Pogge , W. -T. Kim , P. Mróz , R. Poleski , J. Skowron , M. K. Szymański , I. Soszyński , S. Kozłowski , P. Pietrukowicz , K. Ulaczyk , M. Pawlak

Modelling the Galactic Bar Using Red Clump Stars

The color-magnitude diagrams of $\sim 1 \times 10^6$ stars obtained for 19 fields towards the Galactic bulge with the OGLE project reveal a well-defined population of bulge red clump stars. We found that the distributions of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Z. Stanek , M. Mateo , A. Udalski , M. Szymanski , J. Kaluzny , M. Kubiak , W. Krzeminski

MOA-2010-BLG-477Lb: constraining the mass of a microlensing planet from microlensing parallax, orbital motion and detection of blended light

Microlensing detections of cool planets are important for the construction of an unbiased sample to estimate the frequency of planets beyond the snow line, which is where giant planets are thought to form according to the core accretion…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 E. Bachelet , I. -G. Shin , C. Han , P. Fouqué , A. Gould , J. W. Menzies , J. -P. Beaulieu , D. P. Bennett , I. A. Bond , Subo Dong , D. Heyrovský , J. B. Marquette , J. Marshall , J. Skowron , R. A. Street , T. Sumi , A. Udalski , L. Abe , K. Agabi , M. D. Albrow , W. Allen , E. Bertin , M. Bos , D. M. Bramich , J. Chavez , G. W. Christie , A. A. Cole , N. Crouzet , S. Dieters , M. Dominik , J. Drummond , J. Greenhill , T. Guillot , C. B. Henderson , F. V. Hessman , K. Horne , M. Hundertmark , J. A. Johnson , U. G. Jørgensen , R. Kandori , C. Liebig , D. Mékarnia , J. McCormick , D. Moorhouse , T. Nagayama , D. Nataf , T. Natusch , S. Nishiyama , J. -P. Rivet , K. C. Sahu , Y. Shvartzvald , G. Thornley , A. R. Tomczak , Y. Tsapras , J. C. Yee , V. Batista , C. S. Bennett , S. Brillant , J. A. R. Caldwell , A. Cassan , E. Corrales , C. Coutures , D. Dominis Prester , J. Donatowicz , D. Kubas , R. Martin , A. Williams , M. Zub , L. Andrade de Almeida , D. L. DePoy , B. S. Gaudi , L. -W. Hung , F. Jablonski , S. Kaspi , N. Klein , C. -U. Lee , Y. Lee , J. -R. Koo , D. Maoz , J. A. Muñoz , R. W. Pogge , D. Polishook , A. Shporer , F. Abe , C. S. Botzler , P. Chote , M. Freeman , A. Fukui , K. Furusawa , P. Harris , Y. Itow , S. Kobara , C. H. Ling , K. Masuda , Y. Matsubara , N. Miyake , K. Ohmori , K. Ohnishi , N. J. Rattenbury , To. Saito , D. J. Sullivan , D. Suzuki , W. L. Sweatman , P. J. Tristram , K. Wada , P. C. M. Yock , M. K. Szymański , I. Soszyński , M. Kubiak , R. Poleski , K. Ulaczyk , G. Pietrzyński , Ł. Wyrzykowski , N. Kains , C. Snodgrass , I. A. Steele , K. A. Alsubai , V. Bozza , P. Browne , M. J. Burgdorf , S. Calchi Novati , P. Dodds , S. Dreizler , F. Finet , T. Gerner , S. Hardis , K. Harpsøe , T. C. Hinse , E. Kerins , L. Mancini , M. Mathiasen , M. T. Penny , S. Proft , S. Rahvar , D. Ricci , G. Scarpetta , S. Schäfer , F. Schönebeck , J. Southworth , J. Surdej , J. Wambsganss