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Microlensing has recently proven to be a valuable tool to search for extrasolar planets of Neptune- to super-Earth-mass planets at orbits of few AU. Since planetary signals are of very short duration, an intense and continuous monitoring is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Cassan , D. Kubas

We search for microlensing planets with signals exhibiting no caustic-crossing features, considering the possibility that such signals may be missed due to their weak and featureless nature. For this purpose, we reexamine the lensing events…

To move one step forward toward a Galactic distribution of planets, we present the first planet sensitivity analysis for microlensing events with simultaneous observations from space and the ground. We present this analysis for two such…

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

We model binary microlensing events OGLE 2003-BLG-170, 267, and 291. Source angular sizes are measured for the events 267 and 291. Model fits to the light curves give parallaxes for the events 267 and 291, and relative source sizes for 170…

We present the discovery of a free-floating planet microlensing event KMT-2024-BLG-0816. The event shows finite-source effect, significant blending light, and no microlensing signal from a putative planet host. Among the free-floating…

We present an analysis of the microlensing event OGLE-2015-BLG-0232. This event is challenging to characterize for two reasons. First, the light curve is not well sampled during the caustic crossing due to the proximity of the full Moon…

We present Keck NIRC2 high angular resolution adaptive optics observations of the microlensing event OGLE-2005-BLG-169, taken 8.21 years after the discovery of this planetary system. For the first time for a microlensing planetary event,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-03 V. Batista , J. -P. Beaulieu , D. P. Bennett , A. Gould , J. -B. Marquette , A. Fukui , A. Bhattacharya

Modern surveys of gravitational microlensing events have progressed to detecting thousands per year. Surveys are capable of probing Galactic structure, stellar evolution, lens populations, black hole physics, and the nature of dark matter.…

The light curve of the microlensing event KMT-2021-BLG-0240 exhibits a short-lasting anomaly with complex features near the peak at the 0.1~mag level from a single-lens single-source model. We conducted modeling of the lensing light curve…

We report the gravitational microlensing discovery of a sub-Saturn mass planet, MOA-2009-BLG-319Lb, orbiting a K or M-dwarf star in the inner Galactic disk or Galactic bulge. The high cadence observations of the MOA-II survey discovered…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 N. Miyake , T. Sumi , Subo Dong , R. Street , L. Mancini , A. Gould , D. P. Bennett , Y. Tsapras , J. C. Yee , M. D. Albrow , I. A. Bond , P. Fouque , P. Browne , C. Han , C. Snodgrass , F. Finet , K. Furusawa , K. Harpsoe , W. Allen , M. Hundertmark , M. Freeman , D. Suzuki , F. Abe , C. S. Botzler , D. Douchin , A. Fukui , F. Hayashi , J. B. Hearnshaw , S. Hosaka , Y. Itow , K. Kamiya , P. M. Kilmartin , A. Korpela , W. Lin , C. H. Ling , S. Makita , K. Masuda , Y. Matsubara , Y. Muraki , T. Nagayama , K. Nishimoto , K. Ohnishi , Y. C. Perrott , N. Rattenbury , To. Saito , L. Skuljan , D. J. Sullivan , W. L. Sweatman , P. J. Tristram , K. Wada , P. C. M. Yock , The MOA Collaboration , G. Bolt , M. Bos , G. W. Christie , D. L. DePoy , J. Drummond , A. Gal-Yam , B. S. Gaudi , E. Gorbikov , D. Higgins , K. -H. Hwang J. Janczak , S. Kaspi , C. -U. Lee , J. -R. Koo , S. Koz lowski , Y. Lee , F. Mallia , A. Maury , D. Maoz , J. McCormick , L. A. G. Monard , D. Moorhouse , J. A. Mu~noz , T. Natusch , E. O. Ofek , R. W. Pogge , D. Polishook , R. Santallo , A. Shporer , O. Spector , G. Thornley , The Micro FUN Collaboration , A. Allan , D. M. Bramich , K. Horne , N. Kains , I. Steele , The RoboNet Collaboration , V. Bozza , M. J. Burgdorf , S. Calchi Novati , M. Dominik , S. Dreizler , M. Glitrup , F. V. Hessman , T. C. Hinse , U. G. Jorgensen , C. Liebig , G. Maier , M. Mathiasen , S. Rahvar , D. Ricci , G. Scarpetta , J. Skottfelt , J. Southworth , J. Surdej , J. Wambsganss , F. Zimmer , The MiNDSTEp Consortium , V. Batista , J. P. Beaulieu , S. Brillant , A. Cassan , A. Cole , E. Corrales , Ch. Coutures , S. Dieters , J. Greenhill , D. Kubas , J. Menzies , The PLANET Collaboration

We investigate microlensing data collected by the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet) survey. Our investigation reveals that the light curves of two lensing events, KMT-2021-BLG-2609 and KMT-2022-BLG-0303, exhibit a similar…

We present the Catalog of microlensing events detected toward the Galactic bulge in three observing seasons, 1997--1999, during the OGLE-II microlensing survey. The search for microlensing events was performed using a database of about…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Udalski , K. Zebrun , M. Szymanski , M. Kubiak , G. Pietrzynski , I. Soszynski , P. Wozniak

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…

From the 389 2002 OGLE-III observations of Galactic Bulge microlensing events we select 321 that are well described by a point-source point-lens lightcurve model. From this sample we identify n=1 event, 2002-BLG-055, which we regard as a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Colin Snodgrass , Keith Horne , Yiannis Tsapras

Previous calculations of the rates and optical depths due to microlensing only considered resolved stars. However, if a faint unresolved star lens is close enough to a resolved star, the event will be seen by the microlensing experiments…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Alard

We present the analysis of microlensing event OGLE-2006-BLG-284, which has a lens system that consists of two stars and a gas giant planet with a mass ratio of $q_p = (1.26\pm 0.19) \times 10^{-3}$ to the primary. The mass ratio of the two…

We present an analysis of the longest timescale microlensing events discovered by the MACHO Collaboration during a 7 year survey of the Galactic bulge. We find 6 events that exhibit very strong microlensing parallax signals due, in part, to…

We describe a highly unusual microlensing event, OGLE-1999-BUL-19, which exhibits multiple peaks in its light curve. The Einstein radius crossing time for this event is approximately one year, which is unusually long. We show that the…