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Beyond Caustic Crossings: Properties of Binary Microlensing Light Curves

Binary microlensing light curves have a variety of morphologies. Many are indistinguishable from point lens light curves. Of those that deviate from the point lens form, caustic crossing light curves have tended to dominate identified…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Christopher Night , Rosanne Di Stefano , Megan Schwamb

OGLE-2017-BLG-0039: Microlensing Event with Light from the Lens Identified from Mass Measurement

We present the analysis of the caustic-crossing binary microlensing event OGLE-2017-BLG-0039. Thanks to the very long duration of the event, with an event time scale $t_{\rm E}\sim 130$ days, the microlens parallax is precisely measured…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-28 C. Han , Y. K. Jung , A. Udalski , I. Bond , V. Bozza , M. D. Albrow , S. -J. Chung , A. Gould , K. -H. Hwang , D. Kim , C. -U. Lee , H. -W. Kim , Y. -H. Ryu , I. -G. Shin , J. C. Yee , Y. Shvartzvald , S. -M. Cha , S. -L. Kim , D. -J. Kim , D. -J. Lee , Y. Lee , B. -G. Park , R. W. Pogge , M. K. Szymański , P. Mróz , J. Skowron , R. Poleski , I. Soszyński , S. Kozłowski , P. Pietrukowicz , K. Ulaczyk , M. Pawlak , F. Abe , R. Barry , D. P. Bennett , A. Bhattacharya , M. Donachie , P. Evans , A. Fukui , Y. Hirao , 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

The repeating microlensing event OGLE-2003-BLG-095: A plausible case for microlensing of a binary source

The apparently repeating microlensing event OGLE-2003-BLG-095 is analyzed. Data were obtained from the OGLE Internet archive and exist in the public domain. The source is relatively bright, with an unmagnified (but possibly blended)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthew J. Collinge

An alternative parameterisation for binary-lens caustic-crossing events

Microlensing events are being discovered and alerted by the two survey teams OGLE and MOA at an increasing rate. Around ten percent of these events involve binary lenses. Such events potentially contain much information on the physical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Cassan

OGLE-2017-BLG-0537: Microlensing Event with a Resolvable Lens in $\lesssim 5$ years from High-resolution Follow-up Observations

We present the analysis of the binary-lens microlensing event OGLE-2017-BLG-0537. The light curve of the event exhibits two strong caustic-crossing spikes among which the second caustic crossing was resolved by high-cadence surveys. It is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-15 Y. K. Jung , C. Han , A. Udalski , A. Gould , M. D. Albrow , S. -J. Chung , K. -H. Hwang , C. -U. Lee , Y. -H. Ryu , I. -G. Shin , Y. Shvartzvald , J. C. Yee , W. Zang , W. Zhu , S. -M. Cha , D. -J. Kim , H. -W. Kim , S. -L. Kim , D. -J. Lee , Y. Lee , B. -G. Park , R. W. Pogge , W. -T. Kim , P. Mróz , R. Poleski , J. Skowron , M. K. Szymański , I. Soszyński , S. Kozłowski , P. Pietrukowicz , K. Ulaczyk , M. Pawlak

Binary Source Microlensing Event OGLE-2016-BLG-0733: Interpretation of A Long-term Asymmetric Perturbation

In the process of analyzing an observed light curve, one often confronts various scenarios that can mimic the planetary signals causing difficulties in the accurate interpretation of the lens system. In this paper, we present the analysis…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Y. K. Jung , A. Udalski , J. C. Yee , T. Sumi , A. Gould , C. Han , M. D. Albrow , C. -U. Lee , S. -L. Kim , S. -J. Chung , K. -H. Hwang , Y. -H. Ryu , I. -G. Shin , W. Zhu , S. -M. Cha , D. -J. Kim , Y. Lee , B. -G. Park , R. W. Pogge , P. Pietrukowicz , S. Kozlowski , R. Poleski , J. Skowron , P. Mroz , M. K. Szymanski , I. Soszynski , M. Pawlak , K. Ulaczyk , F. Abe , D. P. Bennett , R. Barry , I. A. Bond , Y. Asakura , A. Bhattacharya , M. Donachie , M. Freeman , A. Fukui , Y. Hirao , Y. Itow , N. Koshimoto , M. C. A. Li , C. H. Ling , K. Masuda , Y. Matsubara , Y. Muraki , M. Nagakane , H. Oyokawa , A. Sharan , D. J. Sullivan , D. Suzuki , P. J. Tristram , T. Yamada , T. Yamada , A. Yonehara

OGLE-2009-BLG-023/MOA-2009-BLG-028: Characterization of a Binary Microlensing Event Based on Survey Data

We report the result of the analysis of the light curve of a caustic-crossing binary-lens microlensing event OGLE-2009-BLG-023/MOA-2009-BLG-028. Even though the event was observed solely by survey experiments, we could uniquely determine…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 K. -H. Hwang , C. Han , A. Udalski , T. Sumi , A. Gould , M. Jaroszynski , M. Kubiak , M. K. Szymanski , G. Pietrzynski , I. Soszynski , O. Szewczyk , K. Ulaczyk , L. Wyrzykowski , F. Abe , D. P. Bennett , I. A. Bond , C. S. Botzler , M. Freeman , A. Fukui , K. Furusawa , J. B. Hearnshaw , Y. Itow , K. Kamiya , P. M. Kilmartin , A. Korpela , W. Lin , C. H. Ling , K. Masuda , Y. Matsubara , N. Miyake , Y. Muraki , K. Ohnishi , Y. C. Perrott , N. J. Rattenbury , To. Saito , T. Sako , D. J. Sullivan , W. L. Sweatman , P. J. Tristram , P. C. M. Yock

Interpretation of Strong Short-Term Central Perturbations in the Light Curves of Moderate-Magnification Microlensing Events

To improve the planet detection efficiency, current planetary microlensing experiments are focused on high-magnification events searching for planetary signals near the peak of lensing light curves. However, it is known that central…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 C. Han , K. -H. Hwang , D. Kim , A. Udalski , F. Abe , L. A. B. Monard , J. McCormick , M. K. Szymanski , M. Kubiak , G. Pietrzynski , I. Soszynski , O. Szewczyk , L. Wyrzykowski , K. Ulaczyk , I. A. Bond , C. S. Botzler , A. Fukui , K. Furusawa , J. B. Hearnshaw , 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. Tokumura , Y. C. Perrott , N. Rattenbury , To. Saito , T. Sako , L. Skuljan , D. S. Sullivan , T. Sumi , W. L. Sweatman , P. J. Tristram , P. C. M. Yock , W. Allen , G. W. Christie , D. L. DePoy , S. Dong , B. S. Gaudi , A. Gould , C. -U. Lee , T. Natusch , B. -G. Park , R. W. Pogge , M. D. Albrow , A. Allan , V. Batista , J. P. Beaulieu , D. P. Bennett , S. Brillant , M. Bode , D. M. Bramich , M. Burgdorf , J. A. R. Caldwell , H. Calitz , A. Cassan , E. Corrales , S. Dieters , D. D. Prester , M. Dominik , J. Donatowicz , P. Fouque , J. Greenhill , K. Hill , M. Hoffman , K. Horne , U. G. Jorgensen , N. Kains , D. Kubas , J. B. Marquette , R. Martin , P. Meintjes , J. Menzies , K. R. Pollard , K. C. Sahu , C. Snodgrass , I. Steele , R. Street , Y. Tsapras , J. Wambsganss , A. Williams , M. Zub

A Complete Set of Solutions For Caustic-Crossing Binary Microlensing Events

We present a method to analyze binary-lens microlensing light curves with one well-sampled fold caustic crossing. In general, the surface of chi^2 shows extremely complicated behavior over the 9-parameter space that characterizes binary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. D. Albrow , J. -P. Beaulieu , J. A. R. Caldwell , D. L. DePoy , M. Dominik , B. S. Gaudi , A. Gould , J. Greenhill , K. Hill , S. Kane , R. Martin , J. Menzies , R. M. Naber , R. W. Pogge , K. R. Pollard , P. D. Sackett , K. C. Sahu , P. Vermaak , R. Watson , A. Williams

Four-Body Gravitational Microlensing Events Involving Both a Binary Lens and a Binary Source

We present detailed analyses of three anomalous microlensing events--KMT-2021-BLG-0209, KMT-2021-BLG-0901, and OGLE-2025-BLG-0356--identified from a systematic re-examination of KMTNet light curves for which previous modeling attempts…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-19 Cheongho Han , Chung-Uk Lee , Andrzej Udalski , Michael D. Albrow , Sun-Ju Chung , Andrew Gould , Youn Kil Jung , Kyu-Ha~Hwang , Yoon-Hyun Ryu , Yossi Shvartzvald , In-Gu Shin , Jennifer C. Yee , Weicheng Zang , Hongjing Yang , Doeon Kim , Dong-Jin Kim , Seung-Lee Kim , Dong-Joo Lee , Sang-Mok Cha , Yongseok Lee , Byeong-Gon Park , Richard W. Pogge , Przemek Mróz , Michał K. Szymańskim Jan Skowron , Radosław Poleski , Igor Soszyński , Paweł Pietrukowicz , Szymon Kozłowski , Krzysztof A. Rybicki , Patryk Iwanek , Krzysztof Ulaczyk , Marcin Wrona , Mariusz Gromadzki , Mateusz J. Mróz

First assessment of the binary lens OGLE-2015_BLG-0232

We present an analysis of the microlensing event OGLE-2015-BLG-0232. This event is challenging to characterize for two reasons. First, the light curve is not well sampled during the caustic crossing due to the proximity of the full Moon…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-09 E. Bachelet , V. Bozza , C. Han , A. Udalski , I. A. Bond , J. -P. Beaulieu , R. A. Street , J. -I Kim , D. M. Bramich , A. Cassan , M. Dominik , R. Figuera Jaimes , K. Horne , M. Hundertmark , S. Mao , J. Menzies , C. Ranc , R. Schmidt , C. Snodgrass , I. A. Steele , Y. Tsapras , J. Wambsganss , P. Mróz , I. Soszyński , M. K. Szymański , J. Skowron , P. Pietrukowicz , S. Kozłowski , R. Poleski , K. Ulaczyk , M. Pawlak , F. Abe , R. Barry , D. P. Bennett , A. Bhattacharya , M. Donachie , A. Fukui , Y. Hirao , Y. Itow , K. Kawasaki , I. Kondo , N. Koshimoto , M. Cheung Alex Li , Y. Matsubara , Y. Muraki , S. Miyazaki , M. Nagakane , N. J. Rattenbury , H. Suematsu , D. J. Sullivan , T. Sumi , D. Suzuki , P. J. Tristram , A. Yonehara

OGLE-2018-BLG-0584 and KMT-2018-BLG-2119: two microlensing events with two lens masses and two source stars

We conduct a systematic investigation of the microlensing data collected during the previous observation seasons for the purpose of reanalyzing anomalous lensing events with no suggested plausible models. We find that two anomalous lensing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-01 Cheongho Han , Andrzej Udalski , Youn Kil Jung , Doeon Kim , Hongjing Yang , Michael D. Albrow , Sun-Ju Chung , Andrew Gould , Kyu-Ha Hwang , Hyoun-Woo Kim , Chung-Uk Lee , Yoon-Hyun Ryu , Yossi Shvartzvald , In-Gu Shin , Jennifer C. Yee , Weicheng Zang , Sang-Mok Cha , Dong-Jin Kim , Seung-Lee Kim , Dong-Joo Lee , Yongseok Lee , Byeong-Gon Park , Richard W. Pogge , Chun-Hwey Kim , Woong-Tae Kim , Przemek Mróz , Michał K. Szymański , Jan Skowron , Radosław Poleski , Igor Soszyński , Paweł Pietrukowicz , Szymon Kozłowski , Krzysztof A. Rybicki , Patryk Iwanek , Krzysztof Ulaczyk , Marcin Wrona , Mariusz Gromadzki

Predicting the Second Caustic Crossing in Binary Microlensing Events

We fit binary lens models to the data covering the initial part of real microlensing events in an attempt to predict the time of the second caustic crossing. We use approximations during the initial search through the parameter space for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-08 Michal Jaroszynski , Shude Mao

Spitzer as Microlens Parallax Satellite: Mass and Distance Measurements of Binary Lens System OGLE-2014-BLG-1050L

We report the first mass and distance measurement of a caustic-crossing binary system OGLE-2014-BLG-1050L using the space-based microlens parallax method. \emph{Spitzer} captured the second caustic-crossing of the event, which occurred…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Wei Zhu , A. Udalski , A. Gould , M. Dominik , V. Bozza , C. Han , J. C. Yee , S. Calchi Novati , C. A. Beichman , S. Carey , R. Poleski , J. Skowron , S. Kozlowski , P. Mroz , P. Pietrukowicz , G. Pietrzynski , M. K. Szymanski , I. Soszynski , K. Ulaczyk , L. Wyrzykowski , C. Han , B. S. Gaudi , R. W. Pogge , D. L. DePoy , Y. K. Jung , J. -Y. Choi , K. -H. Hwang , I. -G. Shin , H. Park , J. Jeong

OGLE-2009-BLG-092/MOA-2009-BLG-137: A Dramatic Repeating Event With the Second Perturbation Predicted by Real-Time Analysis

We report the result of the analysis of a dramatic repeating gravitational microlensing event OGLE-2009-BLG-092/MOA-2009-BLG-137, for which the light curve is characterized by two distinct peaks with perturbations near both peaks. We find…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Y. -H. Ryu , C. Han , K. -H. Hwang , R. Street , A. Udalski , T. Sumi , A. Fukui , J. -P. Beaulieu , A. Gould , M. Dominik , F. Abe , D. P. Bennett , I. A. Bond , C. S. Botzler , K. Furusawa , F. Hayashi , J. B. Hearnshaw , S. Hosaka , Y. Itow , K. Kamiya , P. M. Kilmartin , A. Korpela , W. Lin , C. H. Ling , S. Makita , K. Masuda , Y. Matsubara , N. Miyake , Y. Muraki , K. Nishimoto , K. Ohnishi , Y. C. Perrott , N. Rattenbury , To. Saito , L. Skuljan , D. J. Sullivan , D. Suzuki , W. L. Sweatman , P. J. Tristram , K. Wada , P. C. M. Yock , M. K. Szymański , M. Kubiak , G. Pietrzyński , I. Soszyński , O. Szewczyk , Ł. Wyrzykowski , K. Ulaczyk , M. Bos , G. W. Christie , D. L. Depoy , A. Gal-Yam , B. S. Gaudi , S. Kaspi , C. -U. Lee , D. Maoz , J. McCormick , B. Monard , D. Moorhouse , R. W. Pogge , D. Polishook , Y. Shvartzvald , A. Shporer , G. Thornley , J. C. Yee , M. D. Albrow , V. Batista , S. Brillant , A. Cassan , A. Cole , E. Corrales , Ch. Coutures , S. Dieters , P. Fouqué , J. Greenhill , J. Menzies , A. Allan , D. M. Bramich , P. Browne , K. Horne , N. Kains , C. Snodgrass , I. Steele , Y. Tsapras , V. Bozza , M. J. Burgdorf , S. Calchi Novati , S. Dreizler , F. Finet , M. Glitrup , F. Grundahl , K. Harpsøe , F. V. Hessman , T. C. Hinse , M. Hundertmark , U. G. Jørgensen , C. Liebig , G. Maier , L. Mancini , M. Mathiasen , S. Rahvar , D. Ricci , G. Scarpetta , J. Skottfelt , J. Surdej , J. Southworth , J. Wambsganss , F. Zimmer

An analysis of binary microlensing event OGLE-2015-BLG-0060

We present the analysis of stellar binary microlensing event OGLE-2015-BLG-0060 based on observations obtained from 13 different telescopes. Intensive coverage of the anomalous parts of the light curve was achieved by automated follow-up…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-07 Y. Tsapras , A. Cassan , C. Ranc , E. Bachelet , R. Street , A. Udalski , M. Hundertmark , V. Bozza , J. P. Beaulieu , J. B. Marquette , E. Euteneuer , The RoboNet team , : , D. M. Bramich , M. Dominik , R. Figuera Jaimes , K. Horne , S. Mao , J. Menzies , R. Schmidt , C. Snodgrass , I. A. Steele , J. Wambsganss , The OGLE collaboration , : , P. Mróz , M. K. Szymański , I. Soszyński , J. Skowron , P. Pietrukowicz , S. Kozłowski , R. Poleski , K. Ulaczyk , M. Pawlak , The MiNDSTEp collaboration , : , U. G. Jørgensen , J. Skottfelt , A. Popovas , S. Ciceri , H. Korhonen , M. Kuffmeier , D. F. Evans , N. Peixinho , T. C. Hinse , M. J. Burgdorf , J. Southworth , R. Tronsgaard , E. Kerins , M. I. Andersen , S. Rahvar , Y. Wang , O. Wertz , M. Rabus , S. Calchi Novati , G. D'Ago , G. Scarpetta , L. Mancini , The MOA collaboration , : , F. Abe , Y. Asakura , D. P. Bennett , A. Bhattacharya , M. Donachie , P. Evans , A. Fukui , Y. Hirao , Y. Itow , K. Kawasaki , N. Koshimoto , M. C. A. Li , C. H. Ling , K. Masuda , Y. Matsubara , Y. Muraki , S. Miyazaki , M. Nagakane , K. Ohnishi , N. Rattenbury , To. Saito , A. Sharan , H. Shibai , D. J. Sullivan , T. Sumi , D. Suzuki , P. J. Tristram , T. Yamada , A. Yonehara

Identifying Microlensing by Binaries

The microlensing monitoring programs have studied large numbers of standard light curves which seem to be due to lensing by a dark point mass. Theory predicts that many microlensing events should display significant deviations from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Rosanne Di Stefano , Rosalba Perna

Theory and practice of microlensing lightcurves around fold singularities

Among all galactic microlensing events, those involving a passage of the observed source star over the caustic created by a binary lens are particularly useful in providing information about stellar atmospheres, the dynamics of stellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Dominik

A systematic fitting scheme for caustic-crossing microlensing events

We outline a method for fitting binary-lens caustic-crossing microlensing events based on the alternative model parameterisation proposed and detailed in Cassan (2008). As an illustration of our methodology, we present an analysis of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-11-13 N. Kains , A. Cassan , K. Horne , M. D. Albrow , S. Dieters , P. Fouque , J. Greenhill , A. Udalski , M. Zub , D. P. Bennett , M. Dominik , J. Donatowicz , D. Kubas , Y. Tsapras , T. Anguita , V. Batista , J. -P. Beaulieu , S. Brillant , M. Bode , D. M. Bramich , M. Burgdorf , J. A. R. Caldwell , K. H. Cook , Ch. Coutures , D. Dominis Prester , U. G. Jorgensen , S. Kane , J. B. Marquette , R. Martin , J. Menzies , K. R. Pollard , N. Rattenbury , K. C. Sahu , C. Snodgrass , I. Steele , C. Vinter , J. Wambsganss , A. Williams , M. Kubiak , G. Pietrzynski , I. Soszynski , O. Szewczyk , M. K. Szymanski , K. Ulaczyk , L. Wyrzykowski

Full characterization of binary-lens event OGLE-2002-BLG-069 from PLANET observations

We analyze the photometric data obtained by PLANET and OGLE on the caustic-crossing binary-lens microlensing event OGLE-2002-BLG-069. Thanks to the excellent photometric and spectroscopic coverage of the event, we are able to constrain the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Kubas , A. Cassan , J. P. Beaulieu , C. Coutures , M. Dominik , M. D. Albrow , S. Brillant , J. A. R. Caldwell , D. Dominis , J. Donatowicz , P. Fouque , U. G. Jorgensen , J. Greenhill , K. Hill , K. Horne , S. Kane , J. B. Marquette , R. Martin , J. Menzies , K. R. Pollard , K. C. Sahu , C. Vinter , J. Wambsganss , R. Watson , A. Williams , C. Fendt , J. Heinmueller , C. Thurl