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We present Keck NIRC2 high angular resolution adaptive optics observations of the microlensing event OGLE-2005-BLG-169, taken 8.21 years after the discovery of this planetary system. For the first time for a microlensing planetary event,…

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A Jovian-mass Planet in Microlensing Event OGLE-2005-BLG-071

We report the discovery of a several-Jupiter mass planetary companion to the primary lens star in microlensing event OGLE-2005-BLG-071. Precise (<1%) photometry at the peak of the event yields an extremely high signal-to-noise ratio…

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Confirmation of the Planetary Microlensing Signal and Star and Planet Mass Determinations for Event OGLE-2005-BLG-169

We present Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) observations of the source and lens stars for planetary microlensing event OGLE-2005-BLG-169, which confirm the relative proper motion prediction due to the planetary light…

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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…

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OGLE-2016-BLG-1190Lb: First Spitzer Bulge Planet Lies Near the Planet/Brown-Dwarf Boundary

We report the discovery of OGLE-2016-BLG-1190Lb, which is likely to be the first Spitzer microlensing planet in the Galactic bulge/bar, an assignation that can be confirmed by two epochs of high-resolution imaging of the combined…

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The First Circumbinary Planet Found by Microlensing: OGLE-2007-BLG-349L(AB)c

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…

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OGLE-2015-BLG-1771Lb: A Microlens Planet Orbiting an Ultracool Dwarf?

We report the discovery and the analysis of the short (tE < 5 days) planetary microlensing event, OGLE-2015-BLG-1771. The event was discovered by the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE), and the planetary anomaly (at I ~ 19) was…

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Microlensing search for extrasolar planets: observational strategy, discoveries and implications

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

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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…

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OGLE-2011-BLG-0265Lb: a Jovian Microlensing Planet Orbiting an M Dwarf

We report the discovery of a Jupiter-mass planet orbiting an M-dwarf star that gave rise to the microlensing event OGLE-2011-BLG-0265. Such a system is very rare among known planetary systems and thus the discovery is important for…

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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,…

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OGLE-2015-BLG-1609Lb: Sub-jovian planet orbiting a low-mass stellar or brown dwarf host

We present a comprehensive analysis of a planetary microlensing event OGLE-2015-BLG-1609. The planetary anomaly was detected by two survey telescopes, OGLE and MOA. Each of these surveys collected enough data over the planetary anomaly to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-18 M. J. Mróz , R. Poleski , A. Udalski , T. Sumi , Y. Tsapras , M. Hundertmark , P. Pietrukowicz , M. K. Szymański , J. Skowron , P. Mróz , M. Gromadzki , P. Iwanek , S. Kozłowski , M. Ratajczak , K. A. Rybicki , D. M. Skowron , I. Soszyński , K. Ulaczyk , M. Wrona , F. Abe , K. Bando , D. P. Bennett , A. Bhattacharya , I. A. Bond , A. Fukui , R. Hamada , S. Hamada , N. Hamasaki , Y. Hirao , S. Ishitani Silva , Y. Itow , N. Koshimoto , Y. Matsubara , S. Miyazaki , Y. Muraki , T. Nagai , K. Nunota , G. Olmschenk , C. Ranc , N. J. Rattenbury , Y. Satoh , D. Suzuki , S. K. Terry , P. J. Tristram , A. Vandorou , H. Yama , R. A. Street , E. Bachelet , M. Dominik , A. Cassan , R. Figuera Jaimes , K. Horne , R. Schmidt , C. Snodgrass , J. Wambsganss , I. A. Steele , J. Menzies , U. G. Jørgensen , P. Longa-Peña , N. Peixinho , J. Skottfelt , J. Southworth , M. I. Andersen , V. Bozza , M. J. Burgdorf , G. D'Ago , T. C. Hinse , E. Kerins , H. Korhonen , M. Küffmeier , L. Mancini , M. Rabus , S. Rahvar

Planet Sensitivity from Combined Ground- and Space-based Microlensing Observations

To move one step forward toward a Galactic distribution of planets, we present the first planet sensitivity analysis for microlensing events with simultaneous observations from space and the ground. We present this analysis for two such…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-02 Wei Zhu , Andrew Gould , Charles Beichman , Sebastiano Calchi Novati , Sean Carey , B. Scott Gaudi , Calen B. Henderson , Matthew Penny , Yossi Shvartzvald , Jennifer C. Yee , A. Udalski , R. Poleski , J. Skowron , S. Kozlowski , P. Mroz , P. Pietrukowicz , G. Pietrzynski , M. K. Szymanski , I. Soszynski , K. Ulaczyk , L. Wyrzykowski , F. Abe , R. K. Barry , D. P. Bennett , A. Bhattacharya , I. A. Bond , M. Freeman , A. Fukui , Y. Hirao , Y. Itow , N. Koshimoto , H. Ling , K. Masuda , Y. Matsubara , Y. Muraki , M. Nagakane , K. Ohnishi , To. Saito , D. J. Sullivan , T. Sumi , D. Suzuki , P. J. Tristram , N. Rattenbury , Y. Wakiyama , A. Yonehara , D. Maoz , S. Kaspi , M. Friedmann

OGLE-2005-BLG-071Lb, the Most Massive M-Dwarf Planetary Companion?

We combine all available information to constrain the nature of OGLE-2005-BLG-071Lb, the second planet discovered by microlensing and the first in a high-magnification event. These include photometric and astrometric measurements from…

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OGLE-2017-BLG-0482Lb: A Microlensing Super-Earth Orbiting a Low-mass Host Star

We report the discovery of a planetary system in which a super-earth orbits a late M-dwarf host. The planetary system was found from the analysis of the microlensing event OGLE-2017-BLG-0482, wherein the planet signal appears as a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-02 C. Han , Y. Hirao , A. Udalski , C. -U. Lee , V. Bozza , A. Gould , F. Abe , R. Barry , I. A. Bond , D. P. Bennett , A. Bhattacharya , M. Donachie , P. Evans , A. Fukui , Y. Itow , K. Kawasaki , N. Koshimoto , M. C. A. Li , C. H. Ling , Y. Matsubara , S. Miyazaki , H. Munakata , Y. Muraki , M. Nagakane , K. Ohnishi , C. Ranc , N. Rattenbury , T. Saito , A. Sharan , D. J. Sullivan , T. Sumi , D. Suzuki , P. J. Tristram , T. Yamada , A. Yonehara , P. Mróz , R. Poleski , S. Kozłowski , I. Soszyński , P. Pietrukowicz , J. Skowron , M. K. Szymańsk , K. Ulaczyk , M. Pawlak , K. Rybicki , P. Iwanek , M. D. Albrow , S. -J. Chung , K. -H. Hwang , Y. K. Jung , D. Kim , W. -T. Kim , H. -W. Kim , Y. -H. Ryu , I. -G. Shin , Y. Shvartzvald , J. C. Yee , W. Zhu , S. -M. Cha , S. -L. Kim , D. -J. Kim , D. -J. Lee , Y. Lee , B. -G. Park , R. W. Pogge

OGLE-2012-BLG-0950Lb: The First Planet Mass Measurement from Only Microlens Parallax and Lens Flux

We report the discovery of a microlensing planet OGLE-2012-BLG-0950Lb with the planet/host mass ratio of $q \sim 2 \times 10^{-4}$. A long term distortion detected in both MOA and OGLE light curve can be explained by the microlens parallax…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-21 N. Koshimoto , A. Udalski , J. P. Beaulieu , T. Sumi , D. P. Bennett , I. A. Bond , N. Rattenbury , A. Fukui , V. Batista , J. B. Marquette , S. Brillant , F. Abe , Y. Asakura , A. Bhattacharya , M. Donachie , M. Freeman , Y. Hirao , Y. Itow , M. C. A. Li , C. H. Ling , K. Masuda , Y. Matsubara , T. Matsuo , Y. Muraki , K. Ohnishi , H. Oyokawa , To. Saito , A. Sharan , H. Shibai , D. J. Sullivan , D. Suzuki , P. J. Tristram , A. Yonehara , S. Kozlowski , P. Pietrukowicz , R. Poleski , J. Skowron , I. Soszynski , M. K. Szymanski , K. Ulaczyk , L. Wyrzykowski

Planetary Microlensing: From Prediction to Discovery

Four planets have recently been discovered by gravitational microlensing. The most recent of these discoveries is the lowest-mass planet known to exist around a normal star. The detection of planets in gravitational microlensing events was…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Nicholas James Rattenbury

An anomaly detector with immediate feedback to hunt for planets of Earth mass and below by microlensing

(abridged) The discovery of OGLE 2005-BLG-390Lb, the first cool rocky/icy exoplanet, impressively demonstrated the sensitivity of the microlensing technique to extra-solar planets below 10 M_earth. A planet of 1 M_earth in the same spot…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Dominik , N. J. Rattenbury , A. Allan , S. Mao , D. M. Bramich , M. J. Burgdorf , E. Kerins , Y. Tsapras , L. Wyrzykowski