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We present the analysis of a planetary microlensing event OGLE-2019-BLG-0362 with a short-duration anomaly $(\sim 0.4\, \rm days)$ near the peak of the light curve, which is caused by the resonant caustic. The event has a severe degeneracy…

MACHO-97-BLG-41 is a gravitational microlensing event produced by a lens composed of multiple masses detected by the first-generation lensing experiment. For the event, there exist two different interpretations of the lens from independent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Youn Kil Jung , Cheongho Han , Andrew Gould , Dan Maoz

We report the detection of sub-Saturn-mass planet MOA-2008-BLG-310Lb and argue that it is the strongest candidate yet for a bulge planet. Deviations from the single-lens fit are smoothed out by finite-source effects and so are not…

We present the discovery and mass measurement of the cold, low-mass planet MOA-2009-BLG-266Lb, made with the gravitational microlensing method. This planet has a mass of m_p = 10.4 +- 1.7 Earth masses and orbits a star of mass M_* = 0.56 +-…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Y. Muraki , C. Han , D. P. Bennett , D. Suzuki , L. A. G. Monard , R. Street , U. G. Jorgensen , P. Kundurthy , J. Skowron , A. C. Becker , M. D. Albrow , P. Fouque , D. Heyrovsky , R. K. Barry , J. -P. Beaulieu , D. D. Wellnitz , I. A. Bond , T. Sumi , S. Dong , B. S. Gaudi , D. M. Bramich , M. Dominik , F. Abe , C. S. Botzler , M. Freeman , A. Fukui , K. Furusawa , F. Hayashi , J. B. Hearnshaw , S. Hosaka , Y. Itow , K. Kamiya , A. V. Korpela , P. M. Kilmartin , W. Lin , C. H. Ling , S. Makita , K. Masuda , Y. Matsubara , N. Miyake , K. Nishimoto , K. Ohnishi , Y. C. Perrott , N. J. Rattenbury , To. Saito , L. Skuljan , D. J. Sullivan , W. L. Sweatman , P. J. Tristram , K. Wada , P. C. M. Yock , G. W. Christie , D. L. DePoy , E. Gorbikov , A. Gould , S. Kaspi , C. -U. Lee , F. Mallia , D. Maoz , J. McCormick , D. Moorhouse , T. Natusch , B. -G. Park , R. W. Pogge , D. Polishook , A. Shporer , G. Thornley , J. C. Yee , A. Allan , P. Browne , K. Horne , N. Kains , C. Snodgrass , I. Steele , Y. Tsapras , V. Batista , C. S. Bennett , S. Brillant , J. A. R. Caldwell , A. Cassan , A. Cole , R. Corrales , Ch. Coutures , S. Dieters , D. Dominis Prester , J. Donatowicz , J. Greenhill , D. Kubas , J. -B. Marquette , R. Martin , J Menzies , K. C. Sahu , I. Waldman , A. Williams M. Zub , H. Bourhrous , Y. Matsuoka , T. Nagayama , N. Oi , Z. Randriamanakoto , V. Bozza , M. J. Burgdorf , S. Calchi Novati , S. Dreizler , F. Finet , M. Glitrup , K. Harpsoe , T. C. Hinse , M. Hundertmark , C. Liebig , G. Maier , L. Mancini , M. Mathiasen , S. Rahvar , D. Ricci , G. Scarpetta , J. Skottfelt , J. Surdej , J. Southworth , J. Wambsganss , F. Zimmer , A. Udalski , R. Poleski , L. Wyrzykowski , K. Ulaczyk , M. K. Szymanski , M. Kubiak , G. Pietrzynski , I. Soszynski

We measure the dependence of planet frequency on host star mass, $M_{\rm L}$, and distance from the Galactic center, $R_{\rm L}$, using a sample of planets discovered by gravitational microlensing. We compare the two-dimensional…

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

Recently Sumi et al. (2011) reported evidence for a large population of planetary-mass objects (PMOs) that are either unbound or orbit host stars in orbits > 10 AU. Their result was deduced from the statistical distribution of durations of…

We present the details of the Bayesian analysis on the planetary microlensing event MOA-2016-BLG-227, whose excess flux is likely due to a source/lens companion or an unrelated ambient star, as well as of the assumed prior distributions.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-27 Naoki Koshimoto , David P. Bennett , Daisuke Suzuki

The phenomenon of microlensing has successfully been used to detect extrasolar planets. By observing characteristic, rare deviations in the gravitational microlensing light curve one can discover that a lens is a star--planet system. In…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-15 Krzysztof Rybicki , Łukasz Wyrzykowski

At $q=1.81\pm 0.20 \times 10^{-5}$, KMT-2018-BLG-0029Lb has the lowest planet-host mass ratio $q$ of any microlensing planet to date by more than a factor of two. Hence, it is the first planet that probes below the apparent "pile-up" at…

We combine statistical arguments and dynamical analysis to study the orbital configuration of the microlensing planetary system OGLE-2012-BLG-0026L. This system is known to host two massive planets, with both projected close to the Einstein…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-17 Sabrina Madsen , Wei Zhu

It is plausible that most of the Stars in the Milky Way (MW) Galaxy, like the Sun, consist of planetary systems, instead of a single planet. Out of the estimately discovered 3,950 planet-hosting stars, about 860 of them are known to be…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-31 Hossein Fatheddin , Sedighe Sajadian

Gravitational microlensing is a unique method for discovering cold planets across a broad mass range. Reliable statistics of the microlensing planets require accurate sensitivity estimates. However, the impact of the degeneracies in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-24 Yuxin Shang , Hongjing Yang , Jiyuan Zhang , Shude Mao , Andrew Gould , Weicheng Zang , Qiyue Qian , Jennifer C. Yee

In the companion paper we began the task of systematically studying the detection of planets in wide orbits ($a > 1.5 R_E$) via microlensing surveys. In this paper we continue, focusing on repeating events. We find that, if all planetary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Rosanne Di Stefano , Richard A. Scalzo

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…

We present the analysis of stellar binary microlensing event OGLE-2015-BLG-0060 based on observations obtained from 13 different telescopes. Intensive coverage of the anomalous parts of the light curve was achieved by automated follow-up…

We revisit the planetary microlensing event OGLE-2013-BLG-0132/MOA-2013-BLG-148 using Keck adaptive optics imaging in 2013 with NIRC2 and in 2020, 7.4 years after the event, with OSIRIS. The 2020 observations yield a source and lens…

We report the discovery of the microlensing planet OGLE-2018-BLG-0740Lb. The planet is detected with a very strong signal of $\Delta\chi^2\sim 4630$, but the interpretation of the signal suffers from two types of degeneracies. One type is…