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We report the discovery and the analysis of the planetary microlensing event, OGLE-2013-BLG-1761. There are some degenerate solutions in this event because the planetary anomaly is only sparsely sampled. But the detailed light curve…

I show that industrial-scale mass measurement of isolated black holes (BHs) can be achieved by combining a high-cadence, wide-field microlensing survey such as KMTNet, observations from a parallax satellite in solar orbit, and VLTI GRAVITY+…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-31 Andrew Gould

Coupled cosmologies can predict values for the cosmological parameters at low redshifts which may differ substantially from the parameters values within non-interacting cosmologies. Therefore, low redshift probes, as the growth of structure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-08 Francesco De Bernardis , Matteo Martinelli , Alessandro Melchiorri , Olga Mena , Asantha Cooray

We analyze PLANET photometric observations of the caustic-crossing binary-lens microlensing event, EROS BLG-2000-5, and find that modeling the observed light curve requires incorporation of the microlens parallax and the binary orbital…

In this article, we have investigated the possibility to distinguish between different galactic models through the microlensing parallax studies. We show that a systematic search for parallax effects can be done using the currently running…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Rahvar , M. Moniez , R. Ansari , O. Perdereau

We investigate the possibility of determining whether microlensing objects towards the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) are in a Galactic thick disc, or are in a Galactic halo, by using parallax measurements with an Earth-radius scale baseline.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Sumi , Y. Kan-ya

We examine the prospect of using the observed abundance of weak gravitational lenses to constrain the equation-of-state parameter w of the dark energy. Here we solve the spherical-collapse model with dark energy, clarifying some ambiguities…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Nevin N. Weinberg , Marc Kamionkowski

Microlensing of stars in strongly lensed galaxies can lead to temporary extreme magnification factors ($\mu\!>\!1000$), enabling their detection at high redshifts. Following the discovery of Icarus, several stars at cosmological distances…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-03 J. M. Palencia , J. M. Diego , B. J. Kavanagh , J. Martinez

The dark and dynamic parts of the Galaxy, including the bulk shape and movement of the Galactic Bulge and characteristics of dark compact object populations, such as a hypothetical population of primordial black holes (PBHs), are difficult…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-31 Scott E. Perkins , Peter McGill , William A. Dawson , Ming-Feng Ho , Natasha S. Abrams , Simeon Bird , Jessica R. Lu

We investigate the possibility of constraining the dark energy equation of state by measuring the ratio of Einstein radii in a strong gravitational lens system with two source planes. This quantity is independent of the Hubble parameter and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Thomas E. Collett , Matthew W. Auger , Vasily Belokurov , Philip J. Marshall , Alex C. Hall

Next-generation GW detectors will produce a high rate of temporally overlapping signals from unrelated compact binary coalescences. Such overlaps can bias parameter estimation (PE) and mimic signatures of other physical effects, such as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-09 Nishkal Rao , Anuj Mishra , Apratim Ganguly , Anupreeta More

We present a detailed analysis of survey and follow-up observations of microlensing event OGLE-2012-BLG-0406 based on data obtained from 10 different observatories. Intensive coverage of the lightcurve, especially the perturbation part,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Y. Tsapras , J. -Y. Choi , R. A. Street , C. Han , V. Bozza , A. Gould , M. Dominik , J. -P. Beaulieu , A. Udalski , U. G. Jørgensen , T. Sumi , D. M. Bramich , P. Browne , K. Horne , M. Hundertmark , S. Ipatov , N. Kains , C. Snodgrass , I. A. Steele , K. A. Alsubai , J. M. Andersen , S. Calchi Novati , Y. Damerdji , C. Diehl , A. Elyiv , E. Giannini , S. Hardis , K. Harpsøe , T. C. Hinse , D. Juncher , E. Kerins , H. Korhonen , C. Liebig , L. Mancini , M. Mathiasen , M. T. Penny , M. Rabus , S. Rahvar , G. Scarpetta , J. Skottfelt , J. Southworth , J. Surdej , J. Tregloan-Reed , C. Vilela , J. Wambsganss , J. Skowron , R. Poleski , S. Kozłowski , Łukasz Wyrzykowski , M. K. Szymański , M. Kubiak , P. Pietrukowicz , G. Pietrzyński , I. Soszyński , K. Ulaczyk , M. D. Albrow , E. Bachelet , R. Barry , V. Batista , A. Bhattacharya , S. Brillant , J. A. R. Caldwell , A. Cassan , A. Cole , E. Corrales , Ch. Coutures , S. Dieters , D. Dominis Prester , J. Donatowicz , P. Fouqué , J. Greenhill , S. R. Kane , D. Kubas , J. -B. Marquette , J. Menzies , C. P`ere , K. R. Pollard , D. Wouters , G. Christie , D. L. DePoy , S. Dong , J. Drummond , B. S. Gaudi , C. B. Henderson , K. H. Hwang , Y. K. Jung , A. Kavka , J. -R. Koo , C. -U. Lee , D. Maoz , L. A. G. Monard , T. Natusch , H. Ngan , H. Park , R. W. Pogge , I. Porritt , I. -G. Shin , Y. Shvartzvald , T. G. Tan , J. C. Yee , 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 , W. L. Sweatman , D. Suzuki , P. J. Tristram , N. Tsurumi , K. Wada , N. Yamai , P. C. M. Yock A. Yonehara

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 study gravitational lensing by compact objects in gravity theories that can be written in a Post-Post-Newtonian (PPN) framework: i.e., the metric is static and spherically symmetric, and can be written as a Taylor series in m/r, where m…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Charles R. Keeton , A. O. Petters

We consider the feasibility of directly observing gravitational microlensing in extra-galactic sources, whose stars are not generally resolved. This precludes use of the simple optical depth to microlensing formulation, which is applicable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Wesley N. Colley

In this work, gravitational lensing in the weak and strong field limits is investigated for black hole spacetime within the framework of Hu-Sawicki $f(R)$ gravity. We employ the Ishihara et al. approach for weak lensing and adopt Bozza's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-03 Gayatri Mohan , Nashiba Parbin , Umananda Dev Goswami

Strong gravitational lensing is a competitive tool to probe the dark matter and energy content of the Universe. However, significant uncertainties can arise from the choice of lens model, and in particular the parameterisation of the line…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-29 Daniel Johnson , Pierre Fleury , Julien Larena , Lucia Marchetti

In current microlensing experiments, the information about the physical parameters of individual lenses are obtained from the Einstein timescales. However, the nature of MACHOs is still very uncertain despite the large number of detected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Youngjin Jeong , Cheongho Han , Sung-Hong Park