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The Anomaly in the Candidate Microlensing Event PA-99-N2

The lightcurve of PA-99-N2, one of the recently announced microlensing candidates towards M31, shows small deviations from the standard Paczynski form. We explore a number of possible explanations, including correlations with the seeing,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 AGAPE Collaboration , J. H. An , N. W. Evans , E. Kerins , P. Baillon , S. Calchi-Novati , B. J. Carr , M. Creze , Y. Giraud-Heraud , A. Gould , P. Hewett , P. Jetzer , J. Kaplan , S. Paulin-Henriksson , S. J. Smartt , Y. Tsapras , D. Valls-Gabaud

Characterizing Lenses and Lensed Stars of High-Magnification Single-lens Gravitational Microlensing Events With Lenses Passing Over Source Stars

We present the analysis of the light curves of 9 high-magnification single-lens gravitational microlensing events with lenses passing over source stars, including OGLE-2004-BLG-254, MOA-2007-BLG-176, MOA-2007-BLG-233/OGLE-2007-BLG-302,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 J. -Y. Choi , I. -G. Shin , S. -Y. Park , C. Han , A. Gould , T. Sumi , A. Udalski , J. -P. Beaulieu , R. Street , M. Dominik , W. Allen , L. A. Almeida , M. Bos , G. W. Christie , D. L. Depoy , S. Dong , J. Drummond , A. Gal-Yam , B. S. Gaudi , C. B. Henderson , L. -W. Hung , F. Jablonski , J. Janczak , C. -U. Lee , F. Mallia , A. Maury , J. McCormick , D. McGregor , L. A. G. Monard , D. Moorhouse , J. A. Muñoz , T. Natusch , C. Nelson , B. -G. Park , R. W. Pogge , T. -G. "TG" Tan , G. Thornley , J. C. Yee , F. Abe , E. Barnard , J. Baudry , D. P. Bennett , I. A. Bond , C. S. Botzler , M. Freeman , A. Fukui , K. Furusawa , F. Hayashi , J. B. Hearnshaw , S. Hosaka , Y. Itow , K. Kamiya , P. M. Kilmartin , S. Kobara , A. Korpela , W. Lin , C. H. Ling , S. Makita , K. Masuda , Y. Matsubara , N. Miyake , Y. Muraki , M. Nagaya , K. Nishimoto , K. Ohnishi , T. Okumura , K. Omori , Y. C. Perrott , N. Rattenbury , To. Saito , L. Skuljan , D. J. Sullivan , D. Suzuki , K. Suzuki , W. L. Sweatman , S. Takino , P. J. Tristram , K. Wada , P. C. M. Yock , M. K. Szymański , M. Kubiak , G. Pietrzyński , I. Soszyński , R. Poleski , K. Ulaczyk , Ł. Wyrzykowski , S. Kozłowski , P. Pietrukowicz , M. D. Albrow , E. Bachelet , V. Batista , C. S. Bennett , R. Bowens-Rubin , S. Brillant , A. Cassan , A. Cole , E. Corrales , Ch. Coutures , S. Dieters , D. Dominis Prester , J. Donatowicz , P. Fouqué , J. Greenhill , S. R. Kane , J. Menzies , K. C. Sahu , J. Wambsganss , A. Williams , M. Zub , A. Allan , D. M. Bramich , P. Browne , N. Clay , S. Fraser , K. Horne , N. Kains , C. Mottram , C. Snodgrass , I. Steele , Y. Tsapras , K. A. Alsubai , V. Bozza , M. J. Burgdorf , S. Calchi Novati , P. Dodds , S. Dreizler , F. Finet , T. Gerner , M. Glitrup , F. Grundahl , S. Hardis , K. Harpsøe , T. C. Hinse , M. Hundertmark , U. G. Jørgensen , E. Kerins , C. Liebig , G. Maier , L. Mancini , M. Mathiasen , M. T. Penny , S. Proft , S. Rahvar , D. Ricci , G. Scarpetta , S. Schäfer , F. Schönebeck , J. Skottfelt , J. Surdej , J. Southworth , F. Zimmer

A Brown Dwarf Microlens Candidate in the OGLE-II Database

We describe a unique mass determination for a microlensing event from the second phase of the Optical Gravitational Microlensing Experiment (OGLE-II). The event, sc26_2218, which is very bright (baseline magnitude I=15.10), appears to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. C. Smith , S. Mao , P. R. Wozniak

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 companion on the planet/brown dwarf mass boundary on a wide orbit discovered by gravitational microlensing

We present the discovery of a substellar companion to the primary host lens in the microlensing event MOA-2012-BLG-006. The companion-to-host mass ratio is 0.016, corresponding to a companion mass of $\approx8~M_{\rm Jup} (M_*/0.5M_\odot)$.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-15 R. Poleski , A. Udalski , I. A. Bond , J. P. Beaulieu , C. Clanton , S. Gaudi , M. K. Szymański , I. Soszyński , P. Pietrukowicz , Szymon Kozłowski , J. Skowron , Ł. Wyrzykowski , K. Ulaczyk , D. P. Bennett , T. Sumi , D. Suzuki , N. J. Rattenbury , N. Koshimoto , F. Abe , Y. Asakura , R. K. Barry , A. Bhattacharya , M. Donachie , P. Evans , A. Fukui , Y. Hirao , Y. Itow , M. C. A. Li , C. H. Ling , K. Masuda , Y. Matsubara , Y. Muraki , M. Nagakane , K. Ohnishi , C. Ranc , To. Saito , A. Sharan , D. J. Sullivan , P. J. Tristram , T. Yamada , T. Yamada , A. Yonehara , V. Batista , J. B. Marquette

Twin LIGO/Virgo Detections of a Viable Gravitationally-Lensed Black Hole Merger

We identify a binary black hole (BBH) merger that appears to be multiply lensed by an intervening galaxy. The LIGO/Virgo events GW170809 and GW170814 have indistinguishable waveforms separated by 5 days, and overlap on the sky within the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-11 Tom Broadhurst , Jose M. Diego , George F. Smoot

OGLE-2012-BLG-0724Lb: A Saturn-mass Planet around an M-dwarf

We report the discovery of a planet by the microlensing method, OGLE-2012-BLG-0724Lb. Although the duration of the planetary signal for this event was one of the shortest seen for a planetary event, the anomaly was well covered thanks to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-29 Y. Hirao , A. Udalski , T. Sumi , D. P. Bennett , I. A. Bond , N. Rattenbury , D. Suzuki , N. Koshimoto , F. Abe , Y. Asakura , A. Bhattacharya , M. Freeman , A. Fukui , Y. Itow , M. C. A. Li , C. H. Ling , K. Masuda , Y. Matsubara , T. Matsuo , Y. Muraki , M. Nagakane , K. Ohnishi , H. Oyokawa , To. Saito , A. Sharan , H. Shibai , D. J. Sullivan , P. J. Tristram , A. Yonehara , R. Poleski , J. Skowron , P. Mróz , M. K. Szymański , S. Kozłowski , P. Pietrukowicz , I. Soszyński , Ł. Wyzykowski , K. Ulaczyk

OGLE-2017-BLG-0329L: A Microlensing Binary Characterized with Dramatically Enhanced Precision Using Data from Space-based Observations

Mass measurements of gravitational microlenses require one to determine the microlens parallax $\pie$, but precise $\pie$ measurement, in many cases, is hampered due to the subtlety of the microlens-parallax signal combined with the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-06 C. Han , S. Calchi Novati , A. Udalski , C. -U. Lee , A. Gould , V. Bozza , P. Mróz , P. Pietrukowicz , J. Skowron , M. K. Szymański , R. Poleski , I. Soszyński , S. Kozłowski , K. Ulaczyk , M. Pawlak , K. Rybicki , P. Iwanek , M. D. Albrow , S. -J. Chung , K. -H. Hwang , Y. K. Jung , 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 , C. Beichman , G. Bryden , S. Carey , B. S. Gaudi , C. B. Henderson , M. Dominik , C. Helling , M. Hundertmark , U. G. Jørgensen , P. Longa-Peña , S. Lowry , S. Sajadian , M. J. Burgdorf , J. Campbell-White , S. Ciceri , D. F. Evans , L. K. Haikala , T. C. Hinse , S. Rahvar , M. Rabus , C. Snodgrass

Identification of the Microlens in Event MACHO-LMC-20

We report on the identification of the lens responsible for microlensing event MACHO-LMC-20. As part of a \textit{Spitzer}/IRAC program conducting mid-infrared follow-up of the MACHO Large Magellanic Cloud microlensing fields, we discovered…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-07 Nitya Kallivayalil , Brian M. Patten , Massimo Marengo , Charles Alcock , Michael W. Werner , Giovanni G. Fazio

MACHO Alert 95-30 : First Real-Time Observation of Extended Source Effects in Gravitational Microlensing

We present analysis of MACHO Alert 95-30, a dramatic gravitational microlensing event towards the Galactic bulge whose peak magnification departs significantly from the standard point-source microlensing model. Alert 95-30 was observed in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 C. Alcock , W. H. Allen , R. A. Allsman , D. Alves , T. S. Axelrod , T. S. Banks , S. F. Beaulieu , A. C. Becker , R. H. Becker , D. P. Bennett , I. A. Bond , B. S. Carter , K. H. Cook , R. J. Dodd , K. C. Freeman , M. Gregg , K. Griest , J. B. Hearnshaw , A. Heller , M. Honda , J. Jugaku , S. Kabe , S. Kaspi , P. M. Kilmartin , A. Kitamura , O. Kovo , M. J. Lehner , T. E. Love , D. Maoz , S. L. Marshall , Y. Matsubara , D. Minniti , M. Miyamoto , Y. Muraki , T. Nakamura , B. A. Peterson , M. R. Pratt , P. J. Quinn , I. N. Reid , M. Reid , D. Reiss , A. Retter , A. W. Rodgers , W. L. W. Sargent , H. Sato , M. Sekiguchi , P. B. Stetson , C. W. Stubbs , D. J. Sullivan , W. Sutherland , A. Tomaney , T. Vandehei , Y. Watase , D. L. Welch , T. Yanagisawa , M. Yoshizawa , P. C. M. Yock

KMT-2018-BLG-1988Lb: microlensing super-Earth orbiting a low-mass disk dwarf

We reexamine high-magnification microlensing events in the previous data collected by the KMTNet survey with the aim of finding planetary signals that were not noticed before. In this work, we report the planetary system KMT-2018-BLG-1988L…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 Cheongho Han , Andrew Gould , Michael D. Albrow , Sun-Ju Chung , Kyu-Ha Hwang , Youn Kil Jung , Doeon Kim , Chung-Uk Lee , Shude Mao , 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 , Chun-Hwey Kim

A Low-Mass Planet with a Possible Sub-Stellar-Mass Host in Microlensing Event MOA-2007-BLG-192

We report the detection of an extrasolar planet of mass ratio q ~ 2 x 10^(-4) in microlensing event MOA-2007-BLG-192. The best fit microlensing model shows both the microlensing parallax and finite source effects, and these can be combined…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. P. Bennett , I. A. Bond , A. Udalski , T. Sumi , F. Abe , A. Fukui , K. Furusawa , J. B. Hearnshaw , S. Holderness , Y. Itow , K. Kamiya , A. V. Korpela , P. M. Kilmartin , W. Lin , C. H. Ling , K. Masuda , Y. Matsubara , N. Miyake , Y. Muraki , M. Nagaya , T. Okumura , K. Ohnishi , Y. C. Perrott , N. J. Rattenbury , T. Sako , To. Saito , S. Sato , L. Skuljan , D. J. Sullivan , W. L. Sweatman , P. J. Tristram , P. C. M. Yock , M. Kubiak , M. K. Szymanski , G. Pietrzynski , I. Soszynski , O. Szewczyk , L. Wyrzykowski , K. Ulaczyk , V. Batista , J. P. Beaulieu , S. Brillant , A. Cassan , P. Fouque , P. Kervella , D. Kubas , J. B. Marquette

KMT-2021-BLG-1547Lb: Giant microlensing planet detected through a signal deformed by source binarity

We investigate the previous microlensing data collected by the KMTNet survey in search of anomalous events for which no precise interpretations of the anomalies have been suggested. From this investigation, we find that the anomaly in the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-06 Cheongho Han , Weicheng Zang , Youn Kil Jung , Ian A. Bond , Sun-Ju Chung , Michael D. Albrow , Andrew Gould , Kyu-Ha Hwang , Yoon-Hyun Ryu , In-Gu Shin , Yossi Shvartzvald , Hongjing Yang , Jennifer C. Yee , Sang-Mok Cha , Doeon Kim , Dong-Jin Kim , Seung-Lee Kim , Chung-Uk Lee , Dong-Joo Lee , Yongseok Lee , Byeong-Gon Park , Richard W. Pogge , L. A. G. Monard , Qiyue Qian , Zhuokai Liu , Dan Maoz , Matthew T. Penny , Wei Zhu , Fumio Abe , Richard Barry , David P. Bennett , Aparna Bhattacharya , Hirosame Fujii , Akihiko Fukui , Ryusei Hamada , Yuki Hirao , Stela Ishitani Silva , Yoshitaka Itow , Rintaro Kirikawa , Iona Kondo , Naoki Koshimoto , Yutaka Matsubara , Shota Miyazaki , Yasushi Muraki , Greg Olmschenk , Clément Ranc , Nicholas J. Rattenbury , Yuki Satoh , Takahiro Sumi , Daisuke Suzuki , Mio Tomoyoshi , Paul J. Tristram , Aikaterini Vandorou , Hibiki Yama , Kansuke Yamashita

OGLE-2019-BLG-0468Lb,c: two microlensing giant planets around a G-type star

With the aim of interpreting anomalous lensing events with no suggested models, we conducted a project of reinvestigating microlensing data in and before the 2019 season. In this work, we report a multi-planet system OGLE-2019-BLG-0468L…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-16 Cheongho Han , Andrzej Udalski , Chung-Uk Lee , Doeon Kim , Wei Zhu , Michael D. Albrow , Sun-Ju Chung , Andrew Gould , Kyu-Ha Hwang , Youn Kil Jung , Hyoun-Woo Kim , Yoon-Hyun Ryu , In-Gu Shin , Yossi Shvartzvald , 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 , David Buckley , Subo Dong , Ali Luo

Spitzer Microlensing parallax reveals two isolated stars in the Galactic bulge

We report the mass and distance measurements of two single-lens events from the 2017 Spitzer microlensing campaign. The ground-based observations yield the detection of finite-source effects, and the microlens parallaxes are derived from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-04 Weicheng Zang , Yossi Shvartzvald , Tianshu Wang , Andrzej Udalski , Chung-Uk Lee , Takahiro Sumi , Jesper Skottfelt , Shun-Sheng Li , Shude Mao , Wei Zhu , Jennifer C. Yee , Sebastiano Calchi Novati , Charles A. Beichman , Geoffery Bryden , Sean Carey , B. Scott Gaudi , Calen B. Henderson , Przemek Mróz , Jan Skowron , Radoslaw Poleski , Michał K. Szymański , Igor Soszyński , Paweł Pietrukowicz , Szymon Kozłowski , Krzysztof Ulaczyk , Krzysztof A. Rybicki , Patryk Iwanek , Etienne Bachelet , Grant Christie , Jonathan Green , Steve Hennerley , Dan Maoz , Tim Natusch , Richard W. Pogge , Rachel A. Street , Yiannis Tsapras , Michael D. Albrow , Sun-Ju Chung , Andrew Gould , Cheongho Han , Kyu-Ha Hwang , Youn Kil Jung , Yoon-Hyun Ryu , In-Gu Shin , Sang-Mok Cha , Dong-Jin Kim , Hyoun-Woo Kim , Seung-Lee Kim , Dong-Joo Lee , Yongseok Lee , Byeong-Gon Park , Richard W. Pogge , Ian A. Bond , Fumio be , Richard Barry , David P. Bennett , Aparna Bhattacharya , Martin Donachie , Akihiko Fukui , Yuki Hirao , Yoshitaka Itow , Iona Kondo , Naoki Koshimoto , Man Cheung Alex Li , Yutaka Matsubara , Yasushi Muraki , Shota Miyazaki , Masayuki Nagakane , Clément Ranc , Nicholas J. Rattenbury , Haruno Suematsu , Denis J. Sullivan , Daisuke Suzuki , Paul J. Tristram , Atsunori Yonehara , Martin Dominik , Markus Hundertmark , Uffe G. Jørgensen , Sohrab Rahvar , Sedighe Sajadian , Colin Snodgrass , Valerio Bozza , Martin J. Burgdorf , Daniel F. Evans , Roberto Figuera Jaimes , Yuri I. Fujii , Luigi Mancini , Penelope Longa-Peña , hristiane Helling , Nuno Peixinho , Markus Rabus , John Southworth , Eduardo Unda-Sanzana , Carolina von Essen

A Likely Detection of a Two-Planet System in a Low Magnification Microlensing Event

We report on the analysis of a microlensing event OGLE-2014-BLG-1722 that showed two distinct short term anomalies. The best fit model to the observed light curves shows that the two anomalies are explained with two planetary mass ratio…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-13 D. Suzuki , D. P. Bennett , A. Udalski , I. A. Bond , T. Sumi , C. Han , F. Abe , Y. Asakura , R. K. Barry , 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 , K. Onishi , H. Oyokawa , C. Ranc , N. J. Rattenbury , To. Saito , A. Sharan , D. J. Sullivan , P. J. Tristram , A. Yonehara , R. Poleski , P. Mróz , J. Skowron , M. K. Szymański , I. Soszyński , S. Kozłowski , P. Pietrukowicz , Ł. Wyrzykowski , K. Ulaczyk

KMT-2022-BLG-0475Lb and KMT-2022-BLG-1480Lb: Microlensing ice giants detected via non-caustic-crossing channel

We investigate the microlensing data collected in the 2022 season from the high-cadence microlensing surveys in order to find weak signals produced by planetary companions to lenses. From these searches, we find that two lensing events…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-04 Cheongho Han , Chung-Uk Lee , Ian A. Bond , Weicheng Zang , Sun-Ju Chung , Michael D. Albrow , Andrew Gould , Kyu-Ha Hwang , Youn Kil Jung , Yoon-Hyun Ryu , In-Gu Shin , Yossi Shvartzvald , Hongjing Yang , Jennifer C. Yee , Sang-Mok Cha , Doeon Kim , Dong-Jin Kim , Seung-Lee Kim , Dong-Joo Lee , Yongseok Lee , Byeong-Gon Park , Richard W. Pogge , Shude Mao , Wei Zhu , Fumio Abe , Richard Barry , David P. Bennett , Aparna Bhattacharya , Hirosame Fujii , Akihiko Fukui , Ryusei Hamada , Yuki Hirao , Stela Ishitani Silva , Yoshitaka Itow , Rintaro Kirikawa , Iona Kondo , Naoki Koshimoto , Yutaka Matsubara , Shota Miyazaki , Yasushi Muraki , Greg Olmschenk , Clément Ranc , Nicholas J. Rattenbury , Yuki Satoh , Takahiro Sumi , Daisuke Suzuki , Taiga Toda , Mio Tomoyoshi , Paul J. Tristram , Aikaterini Vandorou , Hibiki Yama , Kansuke Yamashita

On Planetary Companions to the MACHO-98-BLG-35 Microlens Star

We present observations of microlensing event MACHO-98-BLG-35 which reached a peak magnification factor of almost 80. These observations by the Microlensing Planet Search (MPS) and the MOA Collaborations place strong constraints on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. H. Rhie , D. P. Bennett , A. C. Becker , B. A. Peterson , P. C. Fragile , B. R. Johnson , J. L. Quinn , A. Crouch , J. Gray , L. King , B. Messenger , S. Thomson , I. A. Bond , F. Abe , B. S. Carter , R. J. Dodd , J. B. Hearnshaw , M. Honda , J. Jugaku , S. Kabe , P. M. Kilmartin , B. S. Koribalski , K. Masuda , Y. Matsubara , Y. Muraki , T. Nakamura , G. R. Nankivell , S. Noda , N. J. Rattenbury , M. Reid , N. J. Rumsey , To. Saito , H. Sato , S. Sato , M. Sekiguchi , D. J. Sullivan , T. Sumi , Y. Watase , T. Yanagisawa , P. C. M. Yock , M. Yoshizawa

New Method to Measure Proper Motions of Microlensed Sources: Application to Candidate Free-Floating-Planet Event MOA-2011-BLG-262

We develop a new method to measure source proper motions in microlensing events, which can partially overcome problems due to blending. It takes advantage of the fact that the source position is known precisely from the microlensing event…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Jan Skowron , Andrzej Udalski , Michał K Szymański , Marcin Kubiak , Grzegorz Pietrzyński , Igor Soszyński , Radosław Poleski , Krzysztof Ulaczyk , Paweł Pietrukowicz , Szymon Kozłowski , Łukasz Wyrzykowski , Andrew Gould

Systematic Analysis of 22 Microlensing Parallax Candidates

We attempt to identify all microlensing parallax events for which the parallax fit improves \Delta\chi^2 > 100 relative to a standard microlensing model. We outline a procedure to identify three types of discrete degeneracies (including a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Shawn Poindexter , Cristina Afonso , David P. Bennett , Jean-Francois Glicenstein , Andrew Gould , Michal K. Szymanski , Andrzej Udalski