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Two cold, gas giant planets orbiting a G-type main sequence star in the galactic disk have previously been discovered in the high magnification microlensing event OGLE-2012-BLG-0026 (Han et al. 2013). Here we present revised host star flux…

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Microlensing has a unique advantage for detecting dark objects in the Milky Way, such as free-floating planets, neutron stars, and stellar-mass black holes. Most microlensing surveys focus on the Galactic bulge, where higher stellar density…

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Gravitational microlensing depends primarily on the lens mass and presents a larger occurrence rate in crowded regions, which makes it the best tool to uncover the initial mass function (IMF) of low-mass stars in the Galactic bulge. The…

We report the analysis of OGLE-2019-BLG-0960, which contains the smallest mass-ratio microlensing planet found to date (q = 1.2--1.6 x 10^{-5} at 1-sigma). Although there is substantial uncertainty in the satellite parallax measured by…

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…

Hundreds of gravitational microlensing events have now been detected towards the Galactic bulge, with many more to come. The detection of fine structure in these events has been theorized to be an excellent way to discover extra-solar…

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Due to their extremely small luminosity compared to the stars they orbit, planets outside our own Solar System are extraordinarily difficult to detect directly in optical light. Careful photometric monitoring of distant stars, however, can…

We present the analysis of the first two years of the OGLE search for gravitational lenses towards the Galactic bulge. We detected 9 microlensing events in an algorithmic search of $ \sim 10^8 $ measurements of $ \sim 10^6 $ stars. The…

We present the discovery of two planetary systems consisting of a Saturn-mass planet orbiting an M-dwarf, which were detected in faint microlensing events OGLE-2013-BLG-0132 and OGLE-2013-BLG-1721. The planetary anomalies were covered with…

Though free-floating planets (FFPs) may outpopulate their bound counterparts in the terrestrial-mass range, they remain one of the least explored exoplanet demographics. Due to their negligible electromagnetic emission at all wavelengths,…

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We present the analysis of the gravitational microlensing event OGLE-2013-BLG-0102. The light curve of the event is characterized by a strong short-term anomaly superposed on a smoothly varying lensing curve with a moderate magnification…

The statistical distribution of the masses of planets about stars between the Sun and the center of the galaxy is constrained to within a factor of three by an intensive search for planets during microlensing events. Projected separations…

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We present the PLANET photometric data set for \ob14, a high magnification ($A_{\rm max}\sim 16$) event alerted by the OGLE collaboration toward the Galactic bulge in 1998. The PLANET data set consists a total of 461 I-band and 139 $V-$band…

(abridged) Using the particularly long gravitational microlensing event OGLE-2014-BLG-1186 with a time-scale $t_\mathrm{E}$ ~ 300 d, we present a methodology for identifying the nature of localised deviations from single-lens point-source…

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Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-10 Y. -H. Ryu , J. C. Yee , A. Udalski , I. A. Bond , Y. Shvartzvald , W. Zang , R. Figuera Jaimes , U. G. Jorgensen , W. Zhu , C. X. Huang , Y. K. Jung , M. D. Albrow , S. -J. Chung , A. Gould , C. Han , K. -H. Hwang , I. -G. Shin , 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 , S. Calchi Novati , S. Carey , C. B. Henderson , C. Beichman , B. S. Gaudi , P. Mróz , R. Poleski , J. Skowron , M. K. Szymanski , I. Soszynski , S. Kozlowski , P. Pietrukowicz , K. Ulaczyk , M. Pawlak , F. Abe , Y. Asakura , 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 , K. Masuda , Y. Matsubara , S. Miyazaki , Y. Muraki , M. Nagakane , K. Ohnishi , C. Ranc , N. J. Rattenbury , To. Saito , A. Sharan , D. J. Sullivan , T. Sumi , D. Suzuki , P. J. Tristram , T. Yamada , T. Yamada , A. Yonehara , G. Bryden , S. B. Howell , S. Jacklin , M. T. Penny , S. Mao , Pascal Fouque , T. Wang , R. A. Street , Y. Tsapras , M. Hundertmark , E. Bachelet , M. Dominik , Z. Li , S. Cross , A. Cassan , K. Horne , R. Schmidt , J. Wambsganss , S. K. Ment , D. Maoz , C. Snodgrass , I. A. Steele , V. Bozza , M. J. Burgdorf , S. Ciceri , G. D'Ago , D. F. Evans , T. C. Hinse , E. Kerins , R. Kokotanekova , P. Longa , J. MacKenzie , A. Popovas , M. Rabus , S. Rahvar , S. Sejadian , J. Skottfelt , J. Southworth , C. von Essen

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…

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