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Exoplanets classified as super-Earths are commonly observed on short period orbits, close to their host stars, but their abundance on wider orbits is poorly constrained. Gravitational microlensing is sensitive to exoplanets on wide orbits.…

We present an analysis of the anomalous microlensing event, MOA-2010-BLG-073, announced by the Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics survey on 2010-03-18. This event was remarkable because the source was previously known to be…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 R. A. Street , J. -Y. Choi , Y. Tsapras , C. Han , K. Furusawa , M. Hundertmark , A. Gould , T. Sumi , I. A. Bond , D. Wouters , R. Zellem , A. Udalski , C. Snodgrass , K. Horne , M. Dominik , P. Browne , N. Kains , D. M. Bramich , D. Bajek , I. A. Steele , S. Ipatov , F. Abe , D. P. Bennett , C. S. Botzler , P. Chote , M. Freeman , A. Fukui , P. Harris , Y. Itow , C. H. Ling , K. Masuda , Y. Matsubara , N. Miyake , Y. Muraki , T. Nagayama , S. Nishimaya , K. Ohnishi , N. Rattenbury , To. Saito , D. J. Sullivan , D. Suzuki , W. L. Sweatman , P. J. Tristram , K. Wada , P. C. M. Yock , M. K. Szymanski , M. Kubiak , G. Pietrzynski , I. Soszynski , R. Poleski , K. Ulaczyk , L. Wyrzykowski , J. Yee , S. Dong , I. -G. Shin , C. -U. Lee , J. Skowron , L. Andrade De Almeida , D. L. DePoy , B. S. Gaudi , L. -W. Hung , F. Jablonski , S. Kaspi , N. Klein , K. -H. Hwang , J. -R. Koo , D. Maoz , J. A. Munoz , R. W. Pogge , D. Polishhook , A. Shporer , J. McCormick , G. Christie , T. Natusch , B. Allen , J. Drummond , D. Moorhouse , G. Thornley , M. Knowler , M. Bos , G. Bolt , J. -P. Beaulieu , M. D. Albrow , V. Batista , S. Brillant , J. A. R. Caldwell , A. Cassan , A. Cole , E. Corrales , Ch. Coutures , S. Dieters , D. Dominis Prester , J. Donatowicz , P. Fouque , E. Bachelet , J. Greenhill , S. R. Kane , D. Kubas , J. -B. Marquette , R. Martin , J. Menzies , K. R. Pollard , K. C. Sahu , J. Wambsganss , A. Williams , M. Zub , K. A. Alsubai , V. Bozza , M. J. Burgdorf , S. Calchi Novati , P. Dodds , S. Dreizler , F. Finet , T. Gerner , S. Hardis , K. Harpsoe , F. Hessman , T. C. Hinse , U. G. Jorgensen , E. Kerins , C. Liebig , L. Mancini , M. Mathiasen , M. T. Penny , S. Proft , S. Rahvar , D. Ricci , G. Scarpetta , S. Schafer , F. Schonebeck , J. Southworth , J. Surdej

KMT-2018-BLG-0029Lb and OGLE-2019-BLG-0960Lb were the lowest mass-ratio microlensing planets at the time of discovery. For both events, microlensing parallax measurements from the Spitzer Space Telescope implied lens systems that were more…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-27 Keming Zhang , Sean K. Terry , Joshua S. Bloom , B. Scott Gaudi , Jessica R. Lu

We use nearly 20 years of photometry obtained by the OGLE survey to measure the occurrence rate of wide-orbit (or ice giant) microlensing planets, i.e., with separations from ~5 AU to ~15 AU and mass-ratios from $10^{-4}$ to 0.033. In a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-29 R. Poleski , J. Skowron , P. Mróz , A. Udalski , M. K. Szymański , P. Pietrukowicz , K. Ulaczyk , K. Rybicki , P. Iwanek , M. Wrona , M. Gromadzki

We report the discovery of a giant planet in event UKIRT-2017-BLG-001, detected by the UKIRT microlensing survey. The mass ratio between the planet and its host is $q=1.50_{-0.14}^{+0.17}\times10^{-3}$, about 1.5 times the Jupiter/Sun mass…

The light curve of the microlensing event KMT-2021-BLG-0240 exhibits a short-lasting anomaly with complex features near the peak at the 0.1~mag level from a single-lens single-source model. We conducted modeling of the lensing light curve…

Characterizing a planet detected by microlensing is hard if the planetary signal is weak or the lens-source relative trajectory is far from caustics. However, statistical analyses of planet demography must include those planets to…

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 analysed microlensing data to uncover the nature of the anomaly that appeared near the peak of the short-timescale microlensing event KMT-2024-BLG-1044. Despite the anomaly's brief duration of less than a day, it was densely observed…

Microlensing has recently proven to be a valuable tool to search for extrasolar planets of Neptune- to super-Earth-mass planets at orbits of few AU. Since planetary signals are of very short duration, an intense and continuous monitoring is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Cassan , D. Kubas

We present the results of HST observations of the host star for the first definitive extrasolar planet detected by microlensing. The light curve model for this event predicts that the lens star should be separated from the source star by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 David P. Bennett , Jay Anderson , Ian A. Bond , Andrzej Udalski , Andrew Gould

The extrasolar system OGLE-2006-BLG-109L is the first multiple-planet system to be discovered by gravitational microlensing (Gaudi et al., 2008); the two large planets that have been detected have mass ratios, semimajor axis ratios, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Renu Malhotra , David A. Minton

We investigate the microlensing data collected during the 2017--2019 seasons in the peripheral Galactic bulge fields with the aim of finding planetary signals in microlensing light curves observed with relatively sparse coverage. We first…

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…

We report the discovery of a low mass-ratio planet $(q = 1.3\times10^{-4})$, i.e., 2.5 times higher than the Neptune/Sun ratio. The planetary system was discovered from the analysis of the KMT-2017-BLG-0165 microlensing event, which has an…

From the 389 2002 OGLE-III observations of Galactic Bulge microlensing events we select 321 that are well described by a point-source point-lens lightcurve model. From this sample we identify n=1 event, 2002-BLG-055, which we regard as a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Colin Snodgrass , Keith Horne , Yiannis Tsapras