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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,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Y. Tsapras , J. -Y. Choi , R. A. Street , C. Han , V. Bozza , A. Gould , M. Dominik , J. -P. Beaulieu , A. Udalski , U. G. Jørgensen , T. Sumi , D. M. Bramich , P. Browne , K. Horne , M. Hundertmark , S. Ipatov , N. Kains , C. Snodgrass , I. A. Steele , K. A. Alsubai , J. M. Andersen , S. Calchi Novati , Y. Damerdji , C. Diehl , A. Elyiv , E. Giannini , S. Hardis , K. Harpsøe , T. C. Hinse , D. Juncher , E. Kerins , H. Korhonen , C. Liebig , L. Mancini , M. Mathiasen , M. T. Penny , M. Rabus , S. Rahvar , G. Scarpetta , J. Skottfelt , J. Southworth , J. Surdej , J. Tregloan-Reed , C. Vilela , J. Wambsganss , J. Skowron , R. Poleski , S. Kozłowski , Łukasz Wyrzykowski , M. K. Szymański , M. Kubiak , P. Pietrukowicz , G. Pietrzyński , I. Soszyński , K. Ulaczyk , M. D. Albrow , E. Bachelet , R. Barry , V. Batista , A. Bhattacharya , S. Brillant , J. A. R. Caldwell , A. Cassan , A. Cole , E. Corrales , Ch. Coutures , S. Dieters , D. Dominis Prester , J. Donatowicz , P. Fouqué , J. Greenhill , S. R. Kane , D. Kubas , J. -B. Marquette , J. Menzies , C. P`ere , K. R. Pollard , D. Wouters , G. Christie , D. L. DePoy , S. Dong , J. Drummond , B. S. Gaudi , C. B. Henderson , K. H. Hwang , Y. K. Jung , A. Kavka , J. -R. Koo , C. -U. Lee , D. Maoz , L. A. G. Monard , T. Natusch , H. Ngan , H. Park , R. W. Pogge , I. Porritt , I. -G. Shin , Y. Shvartzvald , T. G. Tan , J. C. Yee , F. Abe , D. P. Bennett , I. A. Bond , C. S. Botzler , M. Freeman , A. Fukui , D. Fukunaga , Y. Itow , N. Koshimoto , C. H. Ling , K. Masuda , Y. Matsubara , Y. Muraki , S. Namba , K. Ohnishi , N. J. Rattenbury , To. Saito , D. J. Sullivan , W. L. Sweatman , D. Suzuki , P. J. Tristram , N. Tsurumi , K. Wada , N. Yamai , P. C. M. Yock A. Yonehara

A Possible Planetary Event OGLE-2002-BLG-055

The microlensing event OGLE-2002-BLG-055 has a single, but very reliable data point, deviating upward from a single source microlensing light curve by 0.6 mag. The simplest interpretation calls for a binary lens with a strong parallax…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Jaroszynski , B. Paczynski

First Space-based Microlens Parallax Measurement of an Isolated Star: Spitzer Observations of OGLE-2014-BLG-0939

We present the first space-based microlens parallax measurement of an isolated star. From the striking differences in the lightcurve as seen from Earth and from Spitzer (~1 AU to the West), we infer a projected velocity v_helio,projected ~…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 J. C. Yee , A. Udalski , S. Calchi Novati , A. Gould , S. Carey , R. Poleski , B. S. Gaudi , R. W. Pogge , J. Skowron , S. Kozłowski , P. Mróz , P. Pietrukowicz , G. Pietrzyński , M. K. Szymański , I. Soszyński , K. Ulaczyk , Ł . Wyrzykowski

Satellite Parallaxes of Lensing Events Towards the Galactic Bulge

In order to understand the nature of the lenses that generate microlensing events, one would like to measure their mass, distance, and velocity. Unfortunately, current microlensing experiments measure only one parameter of the events, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 B. Scott Gaudi , Andrew Gould

Mass measurement of a single unseen star and planetary detection efficiency for OGLE 2007-BLG-050

We analyze OGLE-2007-BLG-050, a high magnification microlensing event (A ~ 432) whose peak occurred on 2 May, 2007, with pronounced finite-source and parallax effects. We compute planet detection efficiencies for this event in order to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-19 V. Batista , Subo Dong , A. Gould , J. P. Beaulieu , A. Cassan , G. W. Christie , C. Han , A. Udalski , W. Allen , D. L. DePoy , A. Gal-Yam , B. S. Gaudi , B. Johnson , S. Kaspi , C. U. Lee , D. Maoz , J. McCormick , I. McGreer , B. Monard , T. Natusch , E. Ofek , B. -G. Park , R. W. Pogge , D. Polishook , A. Shporer , M. D. Albrow , D. P. Bennett , S. Brillant , M. Bode , D. M. Bramich , M. Burgdorf , J. A. R. Caldwell , H. Calitz , A. Cole , K. H. Cook , Ch. Coutures , S. Dieters , M. Dominik , D. Dominis Prester , J. Donatowicz , P. Fouqué , J. Greenhill , M. Hoffman , K. Horne , U. G. Jørgensen , N. Kains , S. Kane , D. Kubas , J. B. Marquette , R. Martin , P. Meintjes , J. Menzies , K. R. Pollard , K. C. Sahu , C. Snodgrass , I. Steele , Y. Tsapras , J. Wambsganss , A. Williams , M. Zub , Ł. Wyrzykowski , M. Kubiak , M. K. Szymański , G. Pietrzyński , I. Soszyński , O. Szewczyk , K. Ulaczyk , F. Abe , I. A. Bond , A. Fukui , K. Furusawa , J. B. Hearnshaw , S. Holderness , Y. Itow , K. Kamiya , P. M. Kilmartin , A. Korpela , W. Lin , C. H. Ling , K. Masuda , Y. Matsubara , N. Miyake , Y. Muraki , M. Nagaya , K. Ohnishi , T. Okumura , Y. C. Perrott , N. Rattenbury , To. Saito , T. Sako , L. Skuljan , D. Sullivan , T. Sumi , W. L. Sweatman , P. J. Tristram , P. C. M. Yock

A possible binary system of a stellar remnant in the high magnification gravitational microlensing event OGLE-2007-BLG-514

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…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 N. Miyake , A. Udalski , T. Sumi , D. P. Bennett , S. Dong , R. A. Street , J. Greenhill , I. A. Bond , A. Gould , M. Kubiak , M. K. Szymanski , G. Pietrzynski , I. Soszynski , K. Ulaczyk , L. Wyrzykowski , F. Abe , A. Fukui , K. Furusawa , S. Holderness , Y. Itow , A. Korpela , C. H. Ling , K. Masuda , Y. Matsubara , Y. Muraki , T. Nagayama , K. Ohnishi , N. Rattenbury , To. Saito , T. Sako , D. J. Sullivan , W. L. Sweatman , P. J. Tristram , P. C. M. Yock , W. Allen , G. W. Christie , D. L. DePoy , B. S. Gaudi , C. Han , C. -U. Lee , J. McCormick , B. Monard , T. Natusch , B. -G. Park , R. W. Pogge , A. Allan , M. Bode , D. M. Bramich , N. Clay , M. Dominik , K. D. Horne , N. Kains , C. Mottram , C. Snodgrass , I. Steele , Y. Tsapras , M. D. Albrow , V. Batista , J. P. Beaulieu , S. Brillant , M. Burgdorf , J. A. R. Caldwell , A. Cassan , A. Cole , K. H. Cook , Ch. Coutures , S. Dieters , D. Dominis Prester , J. Donatowicz , P. Fouque , U. G. Jorgensen , S. Kane , D. Kubas , J. B. Marquette , R. Martin , J. Menzies , K. R. Pollard , K. C. Sahu , J. Wambsganss , A. Williams , M. Zub

OGLE-2005-BLG-153: Microlensing Discovery and Characterization of A Very Low Mass Binary

The mass function and statistics of binaries provide important diagnostics of the star formation process. Despite this importance, the mass function at low masses remains poorly known due to observational difficulties caused by the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 K. -H. Hwang , A. Udalski , C. Han , Y. -H. Ryu , I. A. Bond , J. -P. Beaulieu , M. Dominik , K. Horne , A. Gould , B. S. Gaudi , M. Kubiak , M. K. Szymanski , G. Pietrzynski , I. Soszynski , O. Szewczyk , K. Ulaczyk , L. Wyrzykowski , F. Abe , C. S. Botzler , J. B. Hearnshaw , Y. Itow , K. Kamiya , P. M. Kilmartin , K. Masuda , Y. Matsubara , M. Motomura , Y. Muraki , S. Nakamura , K. Ohnishi , C. Okada , N. Rattenbury , To. Saito , T. Sako , M. Sasaki , D. J. Sullivan , T. Sumi , P. J. Tristram , J. N. Wood , P. C. M. Yock , T. Yoshioka , M. Albrow , D. P. Bennett , D. M. Bramich , S. Brillant , J. A. R. Caldwell , J. J. Calitz , A. Cassan , K. H. Cook , E. Corrales , C. Coutures , M. Desort , S. Dieters , D. Dominis , J. Donatowicz , P. Fouque , J. Greenhill , K. Harpsoe , K. Hill , M. Hoffman , U. G. Jorgensen , S. Kane , D. Kubas , R. Martin , J. -B. Marquette , P. Meintjes , J. Menzies , K. Pollard , K. Sahu , I. Steele , C. Vinter , J. Wambsganss , A. Williams , K. Woller , M. Burgdorf , C. Snodgrass , M. Bode , D. L. Depoy , C. -U. Lee , B. -G. Park , R. W. Pogge

The Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment. Eclipsing Binary Stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud

We present the catalog of 1459 eclipsing binary stars detected in the central 2.4 square degree area of the Small Magellanic Cloud during the OGLE-II microlensing search. The sample includes objects brighter than I=20 mag with periods…

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

OGLE-2014-BLG-0221Lb: A Jupiter Mass Ratio Companion Orbiting either a Late-Type Star or a Stellar Remnant

We present the analysis of microlensing event OGLE-2014-BLG-0221, a planetary candidate event discovered in 2014. The photometric light curve is best described by a binary-lens single-source model. Our light curve modeling finds two…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-23 Rintaro Kirikawa , Takahiro Sumi , David P. Bennett , Daisuke Suzuki , Naoki Koshimoto , Shota Miyazaki , Ian A. Bond , Andrzej Udalski , Nicholas J. Rattenbury , Fumio Abe , Richard Barry , Aparna Bhattacharya , Hirosane Fujii , Akihiko Fukui , Ryusei Hamada , Yuki Hirao , Stela Ishitani Silva , Yoshitaka Itow , Yutaka Matsubara , Yasushi Muraki , Greg Olmschenk , Clément Ranc , Yuki K. Satoh , Mio Tomoyoshi , Paul . J. Tristram , Aikaterini Vandorou , Hibiki Yama , Kansuke Yamashita , Przemek Mróz , Radosław Poleski , Jan Skowron , Michał K. Szymański , Igor Soszyński , Paweł Pietrukowicz , Szymon Kozłowski , Krzysztof Ulaczyk

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

MOA-2011-BLG-293Lb: First Microlensing Planet possibly in the Habitable Zone

We used Keck adaptive optics observations to identify the first planet discovered by microlensing to lie in or near the habitable zone, i.e., at projected separation $r_\perp=1.1\pm 0.1\,$AU from its $M_{L}=0.86\pm 0.06\,M_\odot$ host,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 V. Batista , J. -P. Beaulieu , A. Gould , D. P. Bennett , J. C Yee , A. Fukui , B. S. Gaudi , T. Sumi , A. Udalski

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

Repeating microlensing events in the OGLE data

Microlensing events are usually selected among single-peaked non-repeating light curves in order to avoid confusion with variable stars. However, a microlensing event may exhibit a second microlensing brightening episode when the source…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Skowron , L. Wyrzykowski , S. Mao , M. Jaroszynski

Analysis of the OGLE microlensing candidates using the image subtraction method

The light curves of the OGLE microlensing candidates have been reconstructed using the image subtraction method. A large improvement of the photometric accuracy has been found in comparison with previous processing of the data with DoPHOT.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Alard

Resolving Microlensing Events with Triggered VLBI

Microlensing events provide a unique capacity to study the stellar remnant population of the Galaxy. Optical microlensing suffers from a near complete degeneracy between the mass, the velocity and the distance. However, a subpopulation of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-12 M. Karami , A. E. Broderick , S. Rahvar , M. Reid

OGLE-IV: Fourth Phase of the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment

We present both the technical overview and main science drivers of the fourth phase of the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (hereafter OGLE-IV). OGLE-IV is currently one of the largest sky variability surveys worldwide, targeting…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-24 A. Udalski , M. K. Szymański , G. Szymański

OGLE-2012-BLG-0724Lb: A Saturn-mass Planet around an M-dwarf

We report the discovery of a planet by the microlensing method, OGLE-2012-BLG-0724Lb. Although the duration of the planetary signal for this event was one of the shortest seen for a planetary event, the anomaly was well covered thanks to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-29 Y. Hirao , A. Udalski , T. Sumi , D. P. Bennett , I. A. Bond , N. Rattenbury , D. Suzuki , N. Koshimoto , F. Abe , Y. Asakura , A. Bhattacharya , M. Freeman , A. Fukui , Y. Itow , M. C. A. Li , C. H. Ling , K. Masuda , Y. Matsubara , T. Matsuo , Y. Muraki , M. Nagakane , K. Ohnishi , H. Oyokawa , To. Saito , A. Sharan , H. Shibai , D. J. Sullivan , P. J. Tristram , A. Yonehara , R. Poleski , J. Skowron , P. Mróz , M. K. Szymański , S. Kozłowski , P. Pietrukowicz , I. Soszyński , Ł. Wyzykowski , K. Ulaczyk

Faint source star planetary microlensing: the discovery of the cold gas giant planet OGLE-2014-BLG-0676Lb

We report the discovery of a planet --- OGLE-2014-BLG-0676Lb --- via gravitational microlensing. Observations for the lensing event were made by the MOA, OGLE, Wise, RoboNET/LCOGT, MiNDSTEp and $\mu$FUN groups. All analyses of the light…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-13 N. J. Rattenbury , D. P. Bennett , T. Sumi , N. Koshimoto , I. A. Bond , A. Udalski , Y. Shvartzvald , D. Maoz , U. G. Jorgensen , M. Dominik , R. A. Street , Y. Tsapras , F. Abe , Y. Asakura , R. Barry , A. Bhattacharya , M. Donachie , P. Evans , M. Freeman , A. Fukui , Y. Hirao , Y. Itow , M. C. A. Li , C. H. Ling , K. Masuda , Y. Matsubara , Y. Muraki , M. Nagakane , K. Ohnishi , H. Oyokawa , To. Saito , A. Sharan , D. J. Sullivan , D. Suzuki , P. J. Tristram , A. Yonehara , R. Poleski , J. Skowron , P. Mroz , M. K. Szymanski , I. Soszynski , P. Pietrukowicz , S. Kozlowski , K. Ulaczyk , L. Wyrzykowski , M. Friedmann , S. Kaspi , K. Alsubai , P. Browne , J. M. Andersen , V. Bozza , S. Calchi Novati , Y. Damerdji , C. Diehl , S. Dreizler , A. Elyiv , E. Giannini , S. Hardis , K. Harpsoe , T. C. Hinse , C. Liebig , M. Hundertmark , D. Juncher , N. Kains , E. Kerins , H. Korhonen , L. Mancini , R. Martin , M. Mathiasen , M. Rabus , S. Rahvar , G. Scarpetta , J. Skottfelt , C. Snodgrass , J. Surdej , J. Taylor , J. Tregloan-Reed , C. Vilela , J. Wambsganss , A. Williams , G. D'Ago , E. Bachelet , D. M. Bramich , R. Figuera Jaimes , K. Horne , J. Menzies , R. Schmidt , I. A. Steele

Spitzer + VLTI-GRAVITY Measure the Lens Mass of a Nearby Microlensing Event

We report the lens mass and distance measurements of the nearby microlensing event TCP J05074264+2447555. We measure the microlens parallax vector ${\pi}_{\rm E}$ using Spitzer and ground-based light curves with constraints on the direction…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 Weicheng Zang , Subo Dong , Andrew Gould , Sebastiano Calchi Novati , Ping Chen , Hongjing Yang , Shun-Sheng Li , Shude Mao , K. B. Alton , Sean Carey , G. W. Christie , F. Delplancke-Ströbele , Dax L. Feliz , J. Green , Shaoming Hu , T. Jayasinghe , R. A. Koff , A. Kurtenkov , A. Mérand , Milen Minev , Robert Mutel , T. Natusch , Tyler Roth , Yossi Shvartzvald , Fengwu Sun , T. Vanmunster , Wei Zhu

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