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The microlensing event OGLE-2011-BLG-0950 exhibits the well-known ``Planet/Binary'' degeneracy, in which distinct lens configurations produce similar light curves but imply substantially different mass ratios between the lens components. A…

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

The discoveries of 17 microlensing event candidates have been reported over the last year by three teams conducting unprecedented mass photometric searches in the direction of the Galactic bulge and the Magellanic Clouds. These include 10…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 A. Udalski , M. Szymanski , J. Kaluzny , M. Kubiak , M. Mateo , W. Krzeminski , B. Paczynski

We develop a new method of modeling microlensing events based on a Monte Carlo simulation that incorporates both a Galactic model and the constraints imposed by the observed characteristics of the event. The method provides an unbiased way…

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

Scores of on-going microlensing events are now announced yearly by the microlensing discovery teams OGLE, MACHO and EROS. These early warning systems have allowed other international microlensing networks to focus considerable resources on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Penny D. Sackett

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 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

If planetary systems are ubiquitous then a fraction of stars should possess a transiting planet when being microlensed. This paper presents a study of the influence of such planets on microlensing light curves. For the giant planets…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Geraint F. Lewis

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

A search for extra-solar planets was carried out in three gravitational microlensing events of high magnification, MACHO 98-BLG-35, MACHO 99-LMC-2, and OGLE 00-BUL-12. Photometry was derived from observational images by the MOA and OGLE…

Microlensing surveys, which have discovered about a dozen extrasolar planets to date, have focused on the small minority of high-magnification lensing events, which have a high sensitivity to planet detection. In contrast, second-generation…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Yossi Shvartzvald , Dan Maoz

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

Microlensing campaigns have a long history of observations covering the Galactic bulge, where thousands of detections have been obtained, including many exoplanetary systems. The Euclid Galactic Bulge Survey represents a unique opportunity…

The growing rate of increase in the number of the discovered extra-solar planets which has consequently raised the enthusiasm to explore the universe in hope of finding earth-like planets has resulted in the wide use of Gravitational…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-24 Karan Molaverdikhani , Maryam Tabeshian

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…

We present the analysis of the first circumbinary planet microlensing event, OGLE-2007-BLG-349. This event has a strong planetary signal that is best fit with a mass ratio of $q \approx 3.4\times10^{-4}$, but there is an additional signal…

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 reanalyze microlensing events in the published list of anomalous events that were observed from the OGLE lensing survey conducted during 2004-2008 period. In order to check the existence of possible degenerate solutions and extract extra…

We report the discovery and analysis of a candidate triple-lens single-source (3L1S) microlensing event, OGLE-2019-BLG-1470. This event was first classified as a normal binary-lens single-source (2L1S) event, but a careful 2L1S modelling…