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Extensive simulations of planetary microlensing are necessary both before and after a survey is conducted: before to design and optimize the survey and after to understand its detection efficiency. The major bottleneck in such computations…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-26 Matthew T. Penny

Microlensing is the only technique likely, within the next 5 years, to constrain the frequency of Jupiter-analogs. The PLANET collaboration has monitored nearly 100 microlensing events of which more than 20 have sensitivity to the…

There are two different strategies of followup observations for the detection of planets by using microlensing. One is detecting the light curve anomalies affected by the planetary caustic from continuous monitoring of all events detected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Cheongho Han , Yong-Gi Kim

Gravitational microlensing is currently the only technique that helps study the Galactic distribution of planets as a function of distance from the Galactic center. The Galactic location of a lens system can be uniquely determined only when…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 Naoki Koshimoto , David P. Bennett , Daisuke Suzuki , Ian A. Bond

Currently astrometric microlensing is the only tool that can directly measure the mass of a single star, it can also help us to detect compact objects like isolated neutron stars and black holes. The number of microlensing events that are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-01 Jie Su , Jiancheng Wang , Yigong Zhang , Xiangming Cheng , Lei Yang

Gaudi, Naber & Sackett pointed out that if an event is caused by a lens system containing more than two planets, all planets will affect the central region of the magnification pattern, and thus the existence of the multiple planets can be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Cheongho Han , Myeong-Gu Park

Using current technology, gravitational microlensing is the only method that can measure planet masses over the full parameter space of planet and stellar-host masses and at a broad range of planet-host separations. I present a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-27 Andrew Gould

In this work, we study the advantages of using a Lucky Imaging camera for the observations of potential planetary microlensing events. Our aim is to reduce the blending effect and enhance exoplanet signals in binary lensing systems composed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 Sedighe Sajadian , Sohrab Rahvar , Martin Dominik , Markus Hundertmark

With several detections, the technique of gravitational microlensing has proven useful for studying planets that orbit stars at Galactic distances, and it can even be applied to detect planets in neighbouring galaxies. So far, planet…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-02 S. Rahvar , M. Dominik

Microlensing is a unique tool, capable of detecting the 'cold' planets between 1-10 AU from their host stars, and even unbound 'free-floating' planets. This regime has been poorly sampled to date owing to the limitations of alternative…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-29 E. Bachelet , M. Norbury , V. Bozza , R. Street

We classify various types of planetary lensing signals and the channels of detecting them. We estimate the relative frequencies of planet detections through the individual channels with special emphasis on the new channels to be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Cheongho Han

Stellar microlensing is a powerful method to constrain compact dark matter models, uncover binary stars, and exoplanets during caustic crossing events. At cosmological distances, {\it James-Webb Space Telescope} ({\it JWST}) is routinely…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-14 Sung Kei Li , Thomas Broadhurst , Jose M. Diego , Jeremy Lim , Jose M. Palencia , James Nianias

We conduct the first microlensing simulation in the context of planet formation model. The planet population is taken from the Ida & Lin core accretion model for $0.3M_\odot$ stars. With $6690$ microlensing events, we find for a simplified…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Wei Zhu , Matthew Penny , Shude Mao , Andrew Gould , Rieul Gendron

The frequency of microlensing planet detections, particularly in difficult-to-model high-magnification events, is increasing. Their analysis can require tens of thousands of processor hours or more, primarily because of the high density and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Andrew Gould

With round-the-clock monitoring of galactic bulge microlensing events, the PLANET experiment constrains the abundance and can yield the discovery of planets down to the mass of earth around galactic disk and bulge stars. Data taken until…

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…

Most known extrasolar planets (exoplanets) have been discovered using the radial velocity$^{\bf 1,2}$ or transit$^{\bf 3}$ methods. Both are biased towards planets that are relatively close to their parent stars, and studies find that…

We show that exoplanets in the M31 galaxy may be detected with the pixel-lensing method by using telescopes making high cadence observations of an ongoing microlensing event. Although the mean mass for detectable exoplanets is about $2…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-14 G. Ingrosso , F. De Paolis , S. Calchi Novati , Ph. Jetzer , A. A. Nucita , A. F. Zakharov