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MOA-2016-BLG-227Lb: A Massive Planet Characterized by Combining Lightcurve Analysis and Keck AO Imaging

We report the discovery of a microlensing planet --- MOA-2016-BLG-227Lb --- with a large planet/host mass ratio of $q \simeq 9 \times 10^{-3}$. This event was located near the $K2$ Campaign 9 field that was observed by a large number of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Naoki Koshimoto , Yossi Shvartzvald , David Bennett , Matthew Penny , Markus Hundertmark , Ian A. Bond , Weicheng Zang , Calen Henderson , Daisuke Suzuki , Nicholas J. Rattenbury , Takahiro Sumi , Fumio Abe , Yuichiro Asakura , Aparna Bhattacharya , Akihiko Fukui , Yuki Hirao , Yoshitaka Itow , M. C. A. Li , C. Ling , Kimiaki Masuda , Y. Matsubara , Taro Matsuo , Yasushi Muraki , Masayuki Nagakane , Kouji Ohnishi , C. Ranc , To. Saito , A. Sharan , Hiroshi Shibai , Denis Sullivan , P. Tristram , A. Yonehara , Christopher Gelino , Charles Beichman , Jean-Philippe Beaulieu , J. -B. Marquette , Virginie Batista , M. Friedmann , N. Hallakoun , Shai Kaspi , Dani Maoz , G. Bryden , Sebastiano Calchi Novati , Steve Howell , T. Wang , Shude Mao , Pascal Fouque , Heidi Korhonen , Uffe Jorgensen , Rachel Street , Yiannis Tsapras , Martin Dominik , Eamonn Kerins , Arnaud Cassan , Colin Snodgrass , Etienne Bachelet , Valerio Bozza , D. M. Bramich

The Star Blended with the MOA-2008-BLG-310 Source Is Not the Exoplanet Host Star

High resolution Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image analysis of the MOA-2008-BLG-310 microlens system indicates that the excess flux at the location of the source found in the discovery paper cannot primarily be due to the lens star because…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-26 A. Bhattacharya , D. P. Bennett , J. Anderson , I. A. Bond , A. Gould , V. Batista , J. P. Beaulieu , P. Fouque , J. B. Marquette , R. Pogge

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

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

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

MOA-2022-BLG-249Lb: Nearby microlensing super-Earth planet detected from high-cadence surveys

We investigate the data collected by the high-cadence microlensing surveys during the 2022 season in search for planetary signals appearing in the light curves of microlensing events. From this search, we find that the lensing event…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-14 Cheongho Han , Andrew Gould , Youn Kil Jung , Ian A. Bond , Weicheng Zang , Sun-Ju Chung , Michael D. Albrow , 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 , 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 , Sho Matsumoto , Shota Miyazaki , Yasushi Muraki , Arisa Okamura , 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

Revisiting MOA 2013 BLG-220L: A Solar-type star with a Cold super-Jupiter Companion

We present the analysis of high-resolution images of MOA-2013-BLG-220, taken with the Keck adaptive optics system 6 years after the initial observation, identifying the lens as a solar-type star hosting a super-Jupiter mass planet. The…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-20 Aikaterini Vandorou , David P. Bennett , Jean-Philippe Beaulieu , Christophe L. Alard , Joshua W. Blackman , Andrew A. Cole , Aparna Bhattacharya , Ian A. Bond , Naoki Koshimoto , Jean-Baptiste Marquette

New Giant Planet beyond the Snow Line for an Extended MOA Exoplanet Microlens Sample

Characterizing a planet detected by microlensing is hard if the planetary signal is weak or the lens-source relative trajectory is far from caustics. However, statistical analyses of planet demography must include those planets to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-09 Clément Ranc , David P. Bennett , Richard K. Barry , Naoki Koshimoto , Jan Skowron , Yuki Hirao , Ian A. Bond , Takahiro Sumi , Lars Bathe-Peters , Fumio Abe , Aparna Bhattacharya , Martin Donachie , Hirosane Fujii , Akihiko Fukui , Stela Ishitani Silva , Yoshitaka Itow , Rintaro Kirikawa , Iona Kondo , Man Cheung Alex Li , Yutaka Matsubara , Yasushi Muraki , Shota Miyazaki , Greg Olmschenk , Nicholas J. Rattenbury , Yuki Satoh , Hikaru Shoji , Daisuke Suzuki , Yuzuru Tanaka , Paul J. Tristram , Tsubasa Yamawaki , Atsunori Yonehara

A Planetary Microlensing Event with an Unusually Red Source Star: MOA-2011-BLG-291

We present the analysis of planetary microlensing event MOA-2011-BLG-291, which has a mass ratio of $q=(3.8\pm0.7)\times10^{-4}$ and a source star that is redder (or brighter) than the bulge main sequence. This event is located at a low…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-29 David P. Bennett , Andrzej Udalski , Ian A. Bond , Daisuke Suzuki , Yoon-Hyun Ryu , Fumio Abe , Richard K. Barry , Aparna Bhattacharya , Martin Donachie , Akihiko Fukui , Yuki Hirao , Kohei Kawasaki , Iona Kondo , Naoki Koshimoto , Man Cheung Alex Li , Yutaka Matsubara , Shota Miyazaki , Yasushi Muraki , Masayuki Nagakane , Koji Ohnishi , Clément Ranc , Nicholas J. Rattenbury , Haruno Suematsu , Takahiro Sumi , Paul J. Tristram , Atsunori Yonehara , Michał K. Szymański , Igor Soszyński , Łukasz Wyrzykowski , Krzysztof Ulaczyk , Radek Poleski , Szymon Kozłowski , Paweł Pietrukowicz , Jan Skowron , Yossi Shvartzvald , Dan Maoz , Shai Kaspi , Matan Friedmann , Virginie Batista , Darren DePoy , Subo Dong , B. Scott Gaudi , Andrew Gould , Cheongho Han Richard W. Pogge , Thiam-Guan Tan , Jennifer C. Yee

OGLE-2017-BLG-0537: Microlensing Event with a Resolvable Lens in $\lesssim 5$ years from High-resolution Follow-up Observations

We present the analysis of the binary-lens microlensing event OGLE-2017-BLG-0537. The light curve of the event exhibits two strong caustic-crossing spikes among which the second caustic crossing was resolved by high-cadence surveys. It is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-15 Y. K. Jung , C. Han , A. Udalski , A. Gould , M. D. Albrow , S. -J. Chung , K. -H. Hwang , C. -U. Lee , 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 , P. Mróz , R. Poleski , J. Skowron , M. K. Szymański , I. Soszyński , S. Kozłowski , P. Pietrukowicz , K. Ulaczyk , M. Pawlak

OGLE-2017-BLG-1049: Another giant planet microlensing event

We report a giant exoplanet discovery in the microlensing event OGLE-2017-BLG-1049, which is a planet-host star mass ratio of $q=9.53\pm0.39\times10^{-3}$ and has a caustic crossing feature in the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-01 Yun Hak Kim , Sun-Ju Chung , A. Udalski , Ian A. Bond , Youn Kil Jung , Andrew Gould , Michael D. Albrow , Cheongho Han , Kyu-Ha Hwang , 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 , Chung-Uk Lee , Dong-Joo Lee , Yongseok Lee , Byeong-Gon Park , Richard W. Pogge , Radek Poleski , Przemek Mroz , Jan Skowron , Michal K. Szymanski , Igor Soszynski , Pawel Pietrukowicz , Syzmon Kozlowski , Krzysztof Ulaczyk , Krzysztof A. Rybicki , Patryk Iwanek , Fumio Abe , Richard Barry , David P. Bennett , Aparna Bhattacharya , Martin Donachie , Hirosane Fujii , Akihiko Fukui , Yoshitaka Itow , Yuki Hirao , Rintaro Kirikawa , Iona Kondo , Naoki Koshimoto , Yutaka Matsubara , Yasushi Muraki , Shota Miyazaki , Clement Ranc , Nicholas J. Rattenbury , Yuki Satoh , Hikaru Shoji , Takahiro Sumi , Daisuke Suzuki , Paul J. Tristram , Yuzuru Tanaka , Tsubasa Yamawaki , Atsunori Yonehara

MOA-2008-BLG-379Lb: A Massive Planet from a High Magnification Event with a Faint Source

We report analysis of high microlensing event MOA-2008-BLG-379, which has a strong microlensing anomaly at its peak, due to a massive planet with a mass ratio of q = 6.9 x 10^{-3}. Because the faint source star crosses the large resonant…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 D. Suzuki , A. Udalski , T. Sumi , D. P. Bennett , I. A. Bond , F. Abe , C. S. Botzler , M. Freeman , M. Fukagawa , A. Fukui , K. Furusawa , Y. Itow , C. H. Ling , K. Masuda , Y. Matsubara , Y. Muraki , K. Ohnishi , N. Rattenbury , To. Saito , H. Shibai , D. J. Sullivan , K. Suzuki , W. L. Sweatman , S. Takino , P. J. Tristram , K. Wada , P. C. M. Yock , M. K. Szymański , M. Kubiak , I. Soszyński , G. Pietrzyński , R. Poleski , K. Ulaczyk , Ł. Wyrzykowski

Characterizing Low-Mass Binaries From Observation of Long Time-scale Caustic-crossing Gravitational Microlensing Events

Despite astrophysical importance of binary star systems, detections are limited to those located in small ranges of separations, distances, and masses and thus it is necessary to use a variety of observational techniques for a complete view…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-14 I. -G. Shin , C. Han , J. -Y. Choi , A. Udalski , T. Sumi , A. Gould , V. Bozza , M. Dominik , P. Fouqué , K. Horne , M. , K. Szymański , M. Kubiak , I. Soszyński , G. Pietrzyński , R. Poleski , K. Ulaczyk , P. Pietrukowicz , S. Kozłowski , J. Skowron , Ł. Wyrzykowski , F. Abe , D. P. Bennett , I. A. Bond , C. S. Botzler , P. Chote , M. Freeman , A. Fukui , K. Furusawa , Y. Itow , S. Kobara , C. H. Ling , K. Masuda , Y. Matsubara , N. Miyake , Y. Muraki , K. Ohmori , K. Ohnishi , N. J. Rattenbury , To. Saito , D. J. Sullivan , D. Suzuki , K. Suzuki , W. L. Sweatman , S. Takino , P. J. Tristram , K. Wada , P. C. M. Yock , D. M. Bramich , C. Snodgrass , I. A. Steele , R. A. Street , Y. Tsapras , K. A. Alsubai , P. Browne , M. J. Burgdorf , S. Calchi Novati , P. Dodds , S. Dreizler , X. -S. Fang , F. Grundahl , C. -H. Gu , S. Hardis , K. Harpsøe , T. C. Hinse , A. Hornstrup , M. Hundertmark , J. Jessen-Hansen , U. G. Jørgensen , N. Kains , E. Kerins , C. Liebig , M. Lund , M. Lunkkvist , L. Mancini , M. Mathiasen , M. T. Penny , S. Rahvar , D. Ricci , G. Scarpetta , J. Skottfelt , J. Southworth , J. Surdej , J. Tregloan-Reed , J. Wambsganss , O. Wertz , L. A. Almeida , V. Batista , G. Christie , D. L. DePoy , Subo Dong , B. S. Gaudi , C. Henderson , F. Jablonski , C. -U. Lee , J. McCormick , D. McGregor , D. Moorhouse , T. Natusch , H. Ngan , S. -Y. Park , R. W. Pogge , T. -G. Tan , G. Thornley , J. C. Yee , M. D. Albrow , E. Bachelet , J. -P. Beaulieu , S. Brillant , A. Cassan , A. A. Cole , E. Corrales , C. Coutures , S. Dieters , D. Dominis Prester , J. Donatowicz , J. Greenhill , D. Kubas , J. -B. Marquette , J. W. Menzies , K. C. Sahu , M. Zub

A Jovian-mass Planet in Microlensing Event OGLE-2005-BLG-071

We report the discovery of a several-Jupiter mass planetary companion to the primary lens star in microlensing event OGLE-2005-BLG-071. Precise (<1%) photometry at the peak of the event yields an extremely high signal-to-noise ratio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Udalski , M. Jaroszynski , B. Paczynski , M. Kubiak , M. K. Szymanski , I. Soszynski , G. Pietrzynski , K. Ulaczyk , O. Szewczyk , L. Wyrzykowski , G. W. Christie , D. L. DePoy , S. Dong , A. Gal-Yam , B. S. Gaudi , A. Gould , C. Han , S. Lepine , J. McCormick , B. -G. Park , R. W. Pogge , D. P. Bennett , I. A. Bond , Y. Muraki , P. J. Tristram , P. C. M. Yock , J. P. Beaulieu , D. M. Bramich , S. W. Dieters , J. Greenhill , K. Hill , K. Horne , D. Kubas

OGLE-2009-BLG-023/MOA-2009-BLG-028: Characterization of a Binary Microlensing Event Based on Survey Data

We report the result of the analysis of the light curve of a caustic-crossing binary-lens microlensing event OGLE-2009-BLG-023/MOA-2009-BLG-028. Even though the event was observed solely by survey experiments, we could uniquely determine…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 K. -H. Hwang , C. Han , A. Udalski , T. Sumi , A. Gould , M. Jaroszynski , M. Kubiak , M. K. Szymanski , G. Pietrzynski , I. Soszynski , O. Szewczyk , K. Ulaczyk , L. Wyrzykowski , F. Abe , D. P. Bennett , I. A. Bond , C. S. Botzler , M. Freeman , A. Fukui , K. Furusawa , J. B. Hearnshaw , Y. Itow , K. Kamiya , P. M. Kilmartin , A. Korpela , W. Lin , C. H. Ling , K. Masuda , Y. Matsubara , N. Miyake , Y. Muraki , K. Ohnishi , Y. C. Perrott , N. J. Rattenbury , To. Saito , T. Sako , D. J. Sullivan , W. L. Sweatman , P. J. Tristram , 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

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

KMT-2019-BLG-0371 and the Limits of Bayesian Analysis

We show that the perturbation at the peak of the light curve of microlensing event KMT-2019-BLG-0371 is explained by a model with a mass ratio between the host star and planet of $q \sim 0.08$. Due to the short event duration ($t_{\rm E}…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-23 Yun Hak Kim , Sun-Ju Chung , Jennifer C. Yee , A. Udalski , Ian A. Bond , Youn Kil Jung , Andrew Gould , Michael D. Albrow , Cheongho Han , Kyu-Ha Hwang , Yoon-Hyun Ryu , In-gu Shin , Yossi Shvartzvald , Weicheng Zang , Sang-Mok Cha , Dong-Jin Kim , Hyoun-Woo Kim , Seung-Lee Kim , Chung-Uk Lee , Dong-Joo Lee , Yongseok Lee , Byeong-Gon Park , Richard W. Pogge , Radek Poleski , Przemek Mróz , Jan Skowron , Michal K. Szymański , Pawel Pietrukowicz , Szymon Kozłowski , Krzysztof Ulaczyk , Krzysztof A. Rybicki , Patryk Iwanek , Marcin Wrona , Mariusz Gromadzki , Fumio Abe , Richard Barry , David P. Bennett , Aparna Bhattacharya , Martin Donachie , Hirosane Fujii , Yoshitaka Itow , Yuki Hirao , Rintaro Kirikawa , Iona Kondo , Naoki Koshimoto , Yutaka Matsubara , Yasushi Muraki , Shota Miyazaki , Clément Ranc , Nicholas J. Rattenbury , Yuki Satoh , Hikaru Shoji , Daisuke Suzuki , Paul J. Tristram , Yuzuru Tanaka , Tsubasa Yamawaki , Atsunori Yonehara

Characterizing microlensing planetary system OGLE-2014-BLG-0676Lb with adaptive optics imaging

We constrain the host-star flux of the microlensing planet OGLE-2014-BLG-0676Lb using adaptive optics (AO) images taken by the Magellan and Keck telescopes. We measure the flux of the light blended with the microlensed source to be K =…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-16 Xiao-Jia Xie , Subo Dong , Yossi Shvartzvald , Andrew Gould , Andrzej Udalski , Jean-Philippe Beaulieu , Charles Beichman , Laird Miller Close , Calen B. Henderson , Jared R. Males , Jean-Baptiste Marquette , Katie M. Morzinski , Christopher R. Gelino

OGLE-2012-BLG-0950Lb: The First Planet Mass Measurement from Only Microlens Parallax and Lens Flux

We report the discovery of a microlensing planet OGLE-2012-BLG-0950Lb with the planet/host mass ratio of $q \sim 2 \times 10^{-4}$. A long term distortion detected in both MOA and OGLE light curve can be explained by the microlens parallax…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-21 N. Koshimoto , A. Udalski , J. P. Beaulieu , T. Sumi , D. P. Bennett , I. A. Bond , N. Rattenbury , A. Fukui , V. Batista , J. B. Marquette , S. Brillant , F. Abe , Y. Asakura , A. Bhattacharya , M. Donachie , M. Freeman , Y. Hirao , Y. Itow , M. C. A. Li , C. H. Ling , K. Masuda , Y. Matsubara , T. Matsuo , Y. Muraki , K. Ohnishi , H. Oyokawa , To. Saito , A. Sharan , H. Shibai , D. J. Sullivan , D. Suzuki , P. J. Tristram , A. Yonehara , S. Kozlowski , P. Pietrukowicz , R. Poleski , J. Skowron , I. Soszynski , M. K. Szymanski , K. Ulaczyk , L. Wyrzykowski