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A Giant Planet beyond the Snow Line in Microlensing Event OGLE-2011-BLG-0251

We present the analysis of the gravitational microlensing event OGLE-2011-BLG-0251. This anomalous event was observed by several survey and follow-up collaborations conducting microlensing observations towards the Galactic Bulge. Based on…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 N. Kains , R. Street , J. -Y. Choi , C. Han , A. Udalski , L. A. Almeida , F. Jablonski , P. Tristram , U. G. Jorgensen , M. K. Szymanski , M. Kubiak , G. Pietrzynski , I. Soszynski , R. Poleski , S. Kozlowski , P. Pietrukowicz , K. Ulaczyk , L. Wyrzykowski , J. Skowron , K. A. Alsubai , V. Bozza , P. Browne , M. J. Burgdorf , S. Calchi Novati , P. Dodds , M. Dominik , S. Dreizler , X. -S. Fang , F. Grundahl , C. -H. Gu , S. Hardis , K. Harpsoe , F. V. Hessman , T. C. Hinse , A. Hornstrup , M. Hundertmark , J. Jessen-Hansen , E. Kerins , C. Liebig , M. Lund , M. Lundkvist , L. Mancini , M. Mathiasen , M. T. Penny , S. Rahvar , D. Ricci , K. C. Sahu , G. Scarpetta , J. Skottfelt , C. Snodgrass , J. Southworth , J. Surdej , J. Tregloan-Reed , J. Wambsganss , O. Wertz , D. Bajek , D. M. Bramich , K. Horne , S. Ipatov , I. A. Steele , Y. Tsapras , F. Abe , D. P. Bennett , I. A. Bond , C. S. Botzler , P. Chote , M. Freeman , A. Fukui , K. Furusawa , Y. Itow , C. H. Ling , K. Masuda , Y. Matsubara , N. Miyake , Y. Muraki , K. Ohnishi , N. Rattenbury , T. Saito , D. J. Sullivan , T. Sumi , D. Suzuki , K. Suzuki , W. L. Sweatman , S. Takino , K. Wada , P. C. M. Yock , W. Allen , V. Batista , S. -J. Chung , G. Christie , D. L. DePoy , J. Drummond , B. S. Gaudi , A. Gould , C. Henderson , Y. -K. Jung , J. -R. Koo , C. -U. Lee , J. McCormick , D. McGregor , J. A. Munoz , T. Natusch , H. Ngan , H. Park , R. W. Pogge , I. -G. Shin , J. Yee , M. D. Albrow , E. Bachelet , J. -P. Beaulieu , S. Brillant , J. A. R. Caldwell , A. Cassan , A. Cole , E. Corrales , Ch. Coutures , S. Dieters , D. Dominis Prester , J. Donatowicz , P. Fouque , J. Greenhill , S. R. Kane , D. Kubas , J. -B. Marquette , R. Martin , P. Meintjes , J. Menzies , K. R. Pollard , A. Williams , D. Wouters , M. Zub

A Possible Planetary Event OGLE-2002-BLG-055

The microlensing event OGLE-2002-BLG-055 has a single, but very reliable data point, deviating upward from a single source microlensing light curve by 0.6 mag. The simplest interpretation calls for a binary lens with a strong parallax…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Jaroszynski , B. Paczynski

OGLE-2016-BLG-0693LB: Probing the Brown Dwarf Desert with Microlensing

We present an analysis of microlensing event OGLE-2016-BLG-0693, based on the survey-only microlensing observations by the OGLE and KMTNet groups. In order to analyze the light curve, we consider the effects of parallax, orbital motion, and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-06 Y. -H. Ryu , A. Udalski , J. C. Yee , M. D. Albrow , S. -J. Chung , A. Gould , C. Han , K. -H. Hwang , Y. K. Jung , I. -G. Shin , W. Zhu , S. -M. Cha , D. -J. Kim , H. -W. Kim , S. -L. Kim , C. -U. Lee , 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

The Nature of Parallax Microlensing Events Towards the Galactic Bulge

Perhaps as many as 30 parallax microlensing events are known, thanks to the efforts of the MACHO, OGLE, EROS and MOA experiments monitoring the bulge. Using Galactic models, we construct mock catalogues of microlensing light curves towards…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. C. Smith , V. Belokurov , N. W. Evans , S. Mao , J. H. An

MOA-2010-BLG-477Lb: constraining the mass of a microlensing planet from microlensing parallax, orbital motion and detection of blended light

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

Precise mass measurement of OGLE-2013-BLG-0132/MOA-2013-BLG-148: a Saturn mass planet orbiting an M-dwarf

We revisit the planetary microlensing event OGLE-2013-BLG-0132/MOA-2013-BLG-148 using Keck adaptive optics imaging in 2013 with NIRC2 and in 2020, 7.4 years after the event, with OSIRIS. The 2020 observations yield a source and lens…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-01 Natalia E. Rektsini , Virginie Batista , Clement Ranc , David P. Bennett , Jean-Philippe Beaulieu , Joshua W. Blackman , Andrew A. Cole , Sean K. Terry , Naoki Koshimoto , Aparna Bhattacharya , Aikaterini Vandorou , Thomas J. Plunkett , Jean-Baptiste Marquette

Gravitational Microlensing Evidence for a Planet Orbiting a Binary Star System

The study of extra-solar planetary systems has emerged as a new discipline of observational astronomy in the past few years with the discovery of a number of extra-solar planets. The properties of most of these extra-solar planets were not…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. P. Bennett , S. H. Rhie , A. C. Becker , N. Butler , J. Dann , S. Kaspi , E. M. Leibowitz , Y. Lipkin , D. Maoz , H. Mendelson , B. A. Peterson , J. Quinn , O. Shemmer , S. Thomson , S. E. Turner

OGLE-2013-BLG-0578L: Microlensing Binary Composed of A Brown Dwarf And An M Dwarf

Determining physical parameters of binary microlenses is hampered by the lack of information about the angular Einstein radius due to the difficulty of resolving caustic crossings. In this paper, we present the analysis of the binary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 H. Park , A. Udalski , C. Han , R. Poleski , J. Skowron , S. Kozłowski , Ł. Wyrzykowski , M. K. Szymański , P. Pietrukowicz , G. Pietrzyński , I. Soszyński , K. Ulaczyk

OGLE 2003-BLG-235/MOA 2003-BLG-53: A planetary microlensing event

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…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 I. A. Bond , A. Udalski , M. Jaroszynski , N. J. Rattenbury , B. Paczynski , I. Soszynski , L. Wyrzykowski , M. K. Szymanski , M. Kubiak , O. Szewczyk , K. Zebrun , G. Pietrzynski , F. Abe , D. P. Bennett , S. Eguchi , Y. Furuta , J. B. Hearnshaw , K. Kamiya , P. M. Kilmartin , Y. Kurata , K. Masuda , Y. Matsubara , Y. Muraki , S. Noda , K. Okajima , T. Sako , T. Sekiguchi , D. J. Sullivan , T. Sumi , P. J. Tristram , T. Yanagisawa , P. C. M. Yock

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

Gravitational Microlensing Events Due to Stellar Mass Black Holes

We present an analysis of the longest timescale microlensing events discovered by the MACHO Collaboration during a 7 year survey of the Galactic bulge. We find 6 events that exhibit very strong microlensing parallax signals due, in part, to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. P. Bennett , A. C. Becker , J. L. Quinn , A. B. Tomaney , C. Alcock , R. A. Allsman , D. R. Alves , T. S. Axelrod , J. J. Calitz , K. H. Cook , A. J. Drake , P. C. Fragile , K. C. Freeman , M. Geha , K. Griest , B. R. Johnson , S. C. Keller , C. Laws , M. J. Lehner , S. L. Marshall , D. Minniti , C. A. Nelson , B. A. Peterson , P. Popowski , M. R. Pratt , P. J. Quinn , S. H. Rhie , C. W. Stubbs , W. Sutherland , T. Vandehei , D. Welch

Astrometric Detection of Double Gravitational Microlensing Events

If a gravitational microlensing event is caused by a widely separated binary lens and the source approaches both lens components, the source flux is successively magnified by the individual lenses: double microlensing events. If events are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Cheongho Han , Byeong-Gon Park , Wonyong Han , Young Woon Kang

OGLE-2016-BLG-1227L: A Wide-separation Planet from a Very Short-timescale Microlensing Event

We present the analysis of the microlensing event OGLE-2016-BLG-1227. The light curve of this short-duration event appears to be a single-lens event affected by severe finite-source effects. Analysis of the light curve based on single-lens…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-19 Cheongho Han , Andrzej Udalski , Andrew Gould , Michael D. Albrow , Sun-Ju Chung , Kyu-Ha Hwang , Youn Kil Jung , Chung-Uk Lee , Yoon-Hyun Ryu , In-Gu Shin , Yossi Shvartzvald , Jennifer C. Yee , Weicheng Zang , Sang-Mok Cha , Dong-Jin Kim , Hyoun-Woo Kim , Seung-Lee Kim , Dong-Joo Lee , Yongseok Lee , Byeong-Gon Park , Richard W. Pogge , M. James Jee , Doeon Kim , Chun-Hwey Kim , Woong-Tae Kim , Przemek Mróz , Michał K. Szymański , Jan Skowron , Radek Poleski , Igor Soszyński , Paweł Pietrukowicz , Szymon Kozłowski , Krzysztof Ulaczyk

The Many Possible Interpretations of Microlensing Event OGLE-2002-BLG-055

Microlensing event OGLE-2002-BLG-055 is characterized by a smooth, slightly asymmetric single-lens curve with an isolated, secure data point that is ~0.6 magnitudes brighter than neighboring points separated by a few days. It was previously…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 B. Scott Gaudi , Cheongho Han

Planetary and Other Short Binary Microlensing Events from the MOA Short Event Analysis

We present the analysis of four candidate short duration binary microlensing events from the 2006-2007 MOA Project short event analysis. These events were discovered as a byproduct of an analysis designed to find short timescale single lens…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-13 D. P. Bennett , T. Sumi , I. A. Bond , K. Kamiya , F. Abe , C. S. Botzler , A. Fukui , K. Furusawa , Y. Itow , A. V. Korpela , P. M. Kilmartin , C. H. Ling , K. Masuda , Y. Matsubara , N. Miyake , Y. Muraki , K. Ohnishi , N. J. Rattenbury , To. Saito , D. J. Sullivan , D. Suzuki , W. L. Sweatman , P. J. Tristram , K. Wada , P. C. M. Yock

Discovery and Mass Measurements of a Cold, 10-Earth Mass Planet and Its Host Star

We present the discovery and mass measurement of the cold, low-mass planet MOA-2009-BLG-266Lb, made with the gravitational microlensing method. This planet has a mass of m_p = 10.4 +- 1.7 Earth masses and orbits a star of mass M_* = 0.56 +-…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Y. Muraki , C. Han , D. P. Bennett , D. Suzuki , L. A. G. Monard , R. Street , U. G. Jorgensen , P. Kundurthy , J. Skowron , A. C. Becker , M. D. Albrow , P. Fouque , D. Heyrovsky , R. K. Barry , J. -P. Beaulieu , D. D. Wellnitz , I. A. Bond , T. Sumi , S. Dong , B. S. Gaudi , D. M. Bramich , M. Dominik , F. Abe , C. S. Botzler , M. Freeman , A. Fukui , K. Furusawa , F. Hayashi , J. B. Hearnshaw , S. Hosaka , Y. Itow , K. Kamiya , A. V. Korpela , P. M. Kilmartin , W. Lin , C. H. Ling , S. Makita , K. Masuda , Y. Matsubara , N. Miyake , K. Nishimoto , K. Ohnishi , Y. C. Perrott , N. J. Rattenbury , To. Saito , L. Skuljan , D. J. Sullivan , W. L. Sweatman , P. J. Tristram , K. Wada , P. C. M. Yock , G. W. Christie , D. L. DePoy , E. Gorbikov , A. Gould , S. Kaspi , C. -U. Lee , F. Mallia , D. Maoz , J. McCormick , D. Moorhouse , T. Natusch , B. -G. Park , R. W. Pogge , D. Polishook , A. Shporer , G. Thornley , J. C. Yee , A. Allan , P. Browne , K. Horne , N. Kains , C. Snodgrass , I. Steele , Y. Tsapras , V. Batista , C. S. Bennett , S. Brillant , J. A. R. Caldwell , A. Cassan , A. Cole , R. Corrales , Ch. Coutures , S. Dieters , D. Dominis Prester , J. Donatowicz , J. Greenhill , D. Kubas , J. -B. Marquette , R. Martin , J Menzies , K. C. Sahu , I. Waldman , A. Williams M. Zub , H. Bourhrous , Y. Matsuoka , T. Nagayama , N. Oi , Z. Randriamanakoto , V. Bozza , M. J. Burgdorf , S. Calchi Novati , S. Dreizler , F. Finet , M. Glitrup , K. Harpsoe , T. C. Hinse , M. Hundertmark , C. Liebig , G. Maier , L. Mancini , M. Mathiasen , S. Rahvar , D. Ricci , G. Scarpetta , J. Skottfelt , J. Surdej , J. Southworth , J. Wambsganss , F. Zimmer , A. Udalski , R. Poleski , L. Wyrzykowski , K. Ulaczyk , M. K. Szymanski , M. Kubiak , G. Pietrzynski , I. Soszynski

OGLE-2017-BLG-1130: The First Binary Gravitational Microlens Detected From Spitzer Only

We analyze the binary gravitational microlensing event OGLE-2017-BLG-1130 (mass ratio q~0.45), the first published case in which the binary anomaly was only detected by the Spitzer Space Telescope. This event provides strong evidence that…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-13 Tianshu Wang , S. Calchi Novati , A. Udalski , A. Gould , Shude Mao , W. Zang , C. Beichman , G. Bryden , S. Carey , B. S. Gaudi , C. B. Henderson , Y. Shvartzvald , J. C. Yee , P. Mroz , R. Poleski , J. Skowron , M. K. Szymanski , I. Soszynski , S. Kozlowski , P. Pietrukowicz , K. Ulaczyk , M. Pawlak , M. D. Albrow , S. -J. Chung , C. Han , K. -H. Hwang , Y. K. Jung , Y. -H. Ryu , I. -G. Shin , W. Zhu , S. -M. Cha , D. -J. Kim , H. -W. Kim , S. -L. Kim , C. -U. Lee , D. -J. Lee , Y. Lee , B. -G. Park , R. W. Pogge

Evidence of a sub-solar star in a microlensing event toward the LMC

Gravitational microlensing is known to be an impressive tool for searching dark, small, and compact objects that are missed by the usual astronomical observations. In this paper, by analysing multiple images acquired by DECam, we present…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-12 A. Franco , A. A. Nucita , F. De Paolis , F. Strafella

Candidate Gravitational Microlensing Events for Future Direct Lens Imaging

The mass of the lenses giving rise to Galactic microlensing events can be constrained by measuring the relative lens-source proper motion and lens flux. The flux of the lens can be separated from that of the source, companions to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 C. B. Henderson , H. Park , T. Sumi , A. Udalski , A. Gould , Y. Tsapras , C. Han , B. S. Gaudi , V. Bozza , F. Abe , D. P. Bennett , I. A. Bond , C. S. Botzler , M. Freeman , A. Fukui , D. Fukunaga , Y. Itow , N. Koshimoto , C. H. Ling , K. Masuda , Y. Matsubara , Y. Muraki , S. Namba , K. Ohnishi , N. J. Rattenbury , To. Saito , D. J. Sullivan , D. Suzuki , W. L. Sweatman , P. J. Tristram , N. Tsurumi , K. Wada , N. Yamai , P. C. M. Yock , A. Yonehara , M. K. Szymański , M. Kubiak , G. Pietrzyński , I. Soszyński , J. Skowron , S. Kozłowski , R. Poleski , K. Ulaczyk , Ł. Wyrzykowski , P. Pietrukowicz , L. A. Almeida , M. Bos , J. -Y. Choi , G. W. Christie , D. L. Depoy , Subo Dong , M. Friedmann , K. -H. Hwang , F. Jablonski , Y. K. Jung , S. Kaspi , C. -U. Lee , D. Maoz , J. McCormick , D. Moorhouse , T. Natusch , H. Ngan , R. W. Pogge , I. -G. Shin , Y. Shvartzvald , T. -G. Tan , G. Thornley , J. C. Yee , A. Allan , D. M. Bramich , P. Browne , M. Dominik , K. Horne , M. Hundertmark , R. Figuera Jaimes , N. Kains , C. Snodgrass , I. A. Steele , R. A. Street

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…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-03 D. P. Bennett , A. Bhattacharya , J. Anderson , I. A. Bond , N. Anderson , R. Barry , V. Batista , J. -P. Beaulieu , D. L. DePoy , Subo Dong , B. S. Gaudi , E. Gilbert , A. Gould , R. Pfeifle , R. W. Pogge , D. Suzuki , S. Terry , A. Udalski