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Microlensing has a unique advantage for detecting dark objects in the Milky Way, such as free-floating planets, neutron stars, and stellar-mass black holes. Most microlensing surveys focus on the Galactic bulge, where higher stellar density…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-11 Ruocheng Zhai , Antonio C. Rodriguez , Shude Mao , Casey Y. Lam , Eric C. Bellm , Josiah Purdum , Frank J. Masci , Avery Wold

Extrasolar planets found by gravitational microlensing often require assumptions on the source star distance and relative proper motion. Only in a few cases has it been possible to confirm these findings with space-based observations or…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-01 K. -S. Nikolaus , M. Hundertmark

Context. Astrometric microlensing is an excellent tool to determine the mass of a stellar object. By measuring the astrometric shift of a background source star in combination with precise predictions of its unlensed position and of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-25 J. Klüter , U. Bastian , M. Demleitner , J. Wambsganss

We investigate the possibility of determining whether microlensing objects towards the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) are in a Galactic thick disc, or are in a Galactic halo, by using parallax measurements with an Earth-radius scale baseline.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Sumi , Y. Kan-ya

We analyze the extreme high-magnification microlensing event OGLE-2008-BLG-279, which peaked at a maximum magnification of A ~ 1600 on 30 May 2008. The peak of this event exhibits both finite-source effects and terrestrial parallax, from…

OGLE-2004-BLG-343 was a microlensing event with peak magnification A_{max}=3000+/-1100, by far the highest-magnification event ever analyzed and hence potentially extremely sensitive to planets orbiting the lens star. Due to human error,…

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

We present high resolution follow-up data of the planetary microlensing event MOA-2010-BLG-328, using Keck and the Hubble. Keck data, taken 8 years after the event, reveal a strong lens detection enabling a direct measurement of lens flux…

We present a catalog of 450 high signal-to-noise microlensing events observed by the MACHO collaboration between 1993 and 1999. The events are distributed throughout our fields and, as expected, they show clear concentration toward the…

We present the lightcurves of 21 gravitational microlensing events from the first six years of the MACHO Project gravitational microlensing survey which are likely examples of lensing by binary systems. These events were manually selected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 MACHO , GMAN collaborations , : , C. Alcock et al

We present preliminary results of the analysis of 5 years of MACHO data on the Galactic bulge microlensing events with clump giants as sources. In particular, we discuss: 1) the selection of `giant' events, 2) distribution of impact…

We present the microlensing optical depth towards the Galactic bulge based on the detection of 99 events found in our Difference Image Analysis (DIA) survey. This analysis encompasses three years of data, covering ~ 17 million stars in ~ 4…

Gould & DePoy proposed a pixel lensing survey towards the Galactic bulge using a small aperture (~65 mm) camera with a large pixel size (10") detector and deliberately degraded optics achieving 30" PSF. In this paper, we estimate the event…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Cheongho Han

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…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-26 Shun-Sheng Li , Weicheng Zang , Andrzej Udalski , Yossi Shvartzvald , Daniel Huber , Chung-Uk Lee , Takahiro Sumi , Andrew Gould , Shude Mao , Pascal Fouqué , Tianshu Wang , Subo Dong , Uffe G. Jørgensen , Andrew Cole , Przemek Mróz , Michał K. Szymański , Jan Skowron , Radosław Poleski , Igor Soszyński , Paweł Pietrukowicz , Szymon Kozłowski , Krzysztof Ulaczyk , Krzysztof A. Rybicki , Patryk Iwanek , Jennifer C. Yee , Sebastiano Calchi Novati , Charles A. Beichman , Geoffery Bryden , Sean Carey , B. Scott Gaudi , Calen B. Henderson , Wei Zhu , Michael D. Albrow , Sun-Ju Chung , Cheongho Han , Kyu-Ha Hwang , Youn Kil Jung , Yoon-Hyun Ryu , In-Gu Shin , Sang-Mok Cha , Dong-Jin Kim , Hyoun-Woo Kim , Seung-Lee Kim , Dong-Joo Lee , Yongseok Lee , Byeong-Gon Park , Richard W. Pogge , Ian A. Bond , Fumio Abe , Richard Barry , David P. Bennett , Aparna Bhattacharya , Martin Donachie , Akihiko Fukui , Yuki Hirao , Yoshitaka Itow , Iona Kondo , Naoki Koshimoto , Man Cheung Alex Li , Yutaka Matsubara , Yasushi Muraki , Shota Miyazaki , Masayuki Nagakane , Clément Ranc , Nicholas J. Rattenbury , Haruno Suematsu , Denis J. Sullivan , Daisuke Suzuki , Paul J. Tristram , Atsunori Yonehara , Grant Christie , John Drummond , Jonathan Green , Steve Hennerley , Tim Natusch , Ian Porritt , Etienne Bachelet , Dan Maoz , Rachel A. Street , Yiannis Tsapras , Valerio Bozza , Martin Dominik , Markus Hundertmark , Nuno Peixinho , Sedighe Sajadian , Martin J. Burgdorf , Daniel F. Evans , Roberto Figuera Jaimes , Yuri I. Fujii , Lauri K. Haikala , Christiane Helling , Thomas Henning , Tobias C. Hinse , Luigi Mancini , Penelope Longa-Peña , Sohrab Rahvar , Markus Rabus , Jesper Skottfelt , Colin Snodgrass , John Southworth , Eduardo Unda-Sanzana , Carolina von Essen , Jean-Phillipe Beaulieu , Joshua Blackman , Kym Hill

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

Gravitational microlensing events of high magnification have been shown to be promising targets for detecting extrasolar planets. However, only a few events of high magnification have been found using conventional survey techniques. Here we…

We present the analysis of a binary microlensing event KMT-2016-BLG-2052, for which the lensing-induced brightening of the source star lasted for 2 seasons. We determine the lens mass from the combined measurements of the microlens parallax…

The analysis of the first two years of OGLE data revealed 9 microlensing events of the galactic bulge stars, with the characteristic time scales in the range $ 8.6 < t_0 < 62 $ days, where $ t_0 = R_E / V $. The optical depth to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 B. Paczynski , K. Z. Stanek , A. Udalski , M. Szymanski , J. Kaluzny , M. Kubiak , M. Mateo , W. Krzeminski