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Microlensing is a powerful technique to study the Galactic population of "dark" objects such as exoplanets both bound and unbound, brown dwarfs, low-luminosity stars, old white dwarfs, neutron stars, and almost the only way to study…

Interferometric observations of microlensing events have the potential to provide unique constraints on the physical properties of the lensing systems. In this work, we first present a formalism that closely combines interferometric and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-09 A. Cassan , C. Ranc

We study the statistics and properties of microlensing events that can be detected by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite(TESS) based on Monte Carlo simulations. We simulate potential microlensing events from a sample of the TESS…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-27 Sedighe Sajadian , Atousa Kalantari , Hossein Fatheddin , Somayeh Khakpash

Microlensing events are usually selected among single-peaked non-repeating light curves in order to avoid confusion with variable stars. However, a microlensing event may exhibit a second microlensing brightening episode when the source…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Skowron , L. Wyrzykowski , S. Mao , M. Jaroszynski

Context. Gaia DR2 offers unparalleled precision on stars' parallaxes and proper motions. This allows the prediction of microlensing events for which the lens stars (and any planets they possess) are nearby and may be well studied and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-03 Alexander J Mustill , Melvyn B Davies , Lennart Lindegren

Isolated black holes (BHs) and neutron stars (NSs) are largely undetectable across the electromagnetic spectrum. For this reason, our only real prospect of observing these isolated compact remnants is via microlensing; a feat recently…

Microlensing searches toward the inner galaxy $(|l|,|b|\leq 22.\hskip-2pt'5)$ have several major advantages. First, the event rate is strongly dominated by bulge-bulge lensing events where both the source and lens lie in the bulge. Second,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Andrew Gould

We have investigated the lensing event KMT-2024-BLG-0404. The light curve of the event exhibited a complex structure with multiple distinct features, including two prominent caustic spikes, two cusp bumps, and a brief discontinuous feature…

We report on the methodology and first results from the Deep Lens Survey transient search. We utilize image subtraction on survey data to yield all sources of optical variability down to 24th magnitude. Images are analyzed immediately after…

We use near-infrared photometry and astrometry from the VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) survey to analyse microlensing events containing annual microlensing parallax information. These events are located in highly extincted and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-08 Zofia Kaczmarek , Peter McGill , N. Wyn Evans , Leigh C. Smith , Łukasz Wyrzykowski , Kornel Howil , Maja Jabłońska

We present an analysis of the large set of microlensing events detected so far toward the Galactic center with the purpose of investigating whether some of the dark lenses are located in Galactic globular clusters. We find that in four…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-12 Philippe Jetzer

We suggest that low-mass hydrogen-burning stars like the Sun should sometimes form with massive extended discs; and we show, by means of radiation hydrodynamic simulations, that the outer parts of such discs (R>100 AU) are likely to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dimitris Stamatellos , David Hubber , Anthony Whitworth

We search for microlensing events in the highly reddened areas surrounding the Galactic center using the near-IR observations with the VISTA Variables in the V\'ia L\'actea Survey (VVV). We report the discovery of 182 new microlensing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-22 María Gabriela Navarro , Dante Minniti , Rodrigo Contreras Ramos

We investigated microlensing events detected by the OGLE and KMTNet surveys during the 2024 observing season, focusing on those that exhibit very complex anomaly features. Through this analysis, we found that the light curves of three…

Galactic model plays an important role in the microlensing field, not only for analyses of individual events but also for statistics of the ensemble of events. However, the Galactic models used in the field varies, and some are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-24 Hongjing Yang , Shude Mao , Weicheng Zang , Xiangyu Zhang

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

We report the discovery of a super-Earth mass planet in the microlensing event MOA-2012-BLG-505. This event has the second shortest event timescale of $t_{\rm E}=10 \pm 1$ days where the observed data show evidence of planetary companion.…

Parallax is the most fundamental technique to measure distances to astronomical objects. Although terrestrial parallax was pioneered over 2000 years ago by Hipparchus (ca. 140 BCE) to measure the distance to the Moon, the baseline of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-02-11 A. Gould , A. Udalski , B. Monard , K. Horne , Subo Dong , N. Miyake , K. Sahu , D. P. Bennett , the OGLE , MicroFUN , RoboNet , MOA , PLANET collaborations