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KMT-2022-BLG-0475Lb and KMT-2022-BLG-1480Lb: Microlensing ice giants detected via non-caustic-crossing channel

We investigate the microlensing data collected in the 2022 season from the high-cadence microlensing surveys in order to find weak signals produced by planetary companions to lenses. From these searches, we find that two lensing events…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-04 Cheongho Han , Chung-Uk Lee , Ian A. Bond , Weicheng Zang , Sun-Ju Chung , Michael D. Albrow , Andrew Gould , Kyu-Ha Hwang , Youn Kil Jung , Yoon-Hyun Ryu , In-Gu Shin , Yossi Shvartzvald , Hongjing Yang , Jennifer C. Yee , Sang-Mok Cha , Doeon Kim , Dong-Jin Kim , Seung-Lee Kim , 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 , Shota Miyazaki , Yasushi Muraki , 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

Polarization in binary microlensing events

The light received by source stars in microlensing events may be significantly polarized if both an efficient photon scattering mechanism is active in the source stellar atmosphere and a differential magnification is therein induced by the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 G. Ingrosso , F. De Paolis , A. A. Nucita , F. Strafella , S. Calchi Novati , Ph. Jetzer , G. Liuzzi , A. Zakharov

A Super-Jupiter orbiting a late-type star: A refined analysis of microlensing event OGLE-2012-BLG-0406

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

Spitzer Microlensing parallax reveals two isolated stars in the Galactic bulge

We report the mass and distance measurements of two single-lens events from the 2017 Spitzer microlensing campaign. The ground-based observations yield the detection of finite-source effects, and the microlens parallaxes are derived from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-04 Weicheng Zang , Yossi Shvartzvald , Tianshu Wang , Andrzej Udalski , Chung-Uk Lee , Takahiro Sumi , Jesper Skottfelt , Shun-Sheng Li , Shude Mao , Wei Zhu , Jennifer C. Yee , Sebastiano Calchi Novati , Charles A. Beichman , Geoffery Bryden , Sean Carey , B. Scott Gaudi , Calen B. Henderson , Przemek Mróz , Jan Skowron , Radoslaw Poleski , Michał K. Szymański , Igor Soszyński , Paweł Pietrukowicz , Szymon Kozłowski , Krzysztof Ulaczyk , Krzysztof A. Rybicki , Patryk Iwanek , Etienne Bachelet , Grant Christie , Jonathan Green , Steve Hennerley , Dan Maoz , Tim Natusch , Richard W. Pogge , Rachel A. Street , Yiannis Tsapras , Michael D. Albrow , Sun-Ju Chung , Andrew Gould , Cheongho Han , Kyu-Ha Hwang , Youn Kil Jung , Yoon-Hyun Ryu , In-Gu Shin , Sang-Mok Cha , Dong-Jin Kim , Hyoun-Woo Kim , Seung-Lee Kim , Dong-Joo Lee , Yongseok Lee , Byeong-Gon Park , Richard W. Pogge , Ian A. Bond , Fumio be , Richard Barry , David P. Bennett , Aparna Bhattacharya , Martin Donachie , Akihiko Fukui , Yuki Hirao , Yoshitaka Itow , Iona Kondo , Naoki Koshimoto , Man Cheung Alex Li , Yutaka Matsubara , Yasushi Muraki , Shota Miyazaki , Masayuki Nagakane , Clément Ranc , Nicholas J. Rattenbury , Haruno Suematsu , Denis J. Sullivan , Daisuke Suzuki , Paul J. Tristram , Atsunori Yonehara , Martin Dominik , Markus Hundertmark , Uffe G. Jørgensen , Sohrab Rahvar , Sedighe Sajadian , Colin Snodgrass , Valerio Bozza , Martin J. Burgdorf , Daniel F. Evans , Roberto Figuera Jaimes , Yuri I. Fujii , Luigi Mancini , Penelope Longa-Peña , hristiane Helling , Nuno Peixinho , Markus Rabus , John Southworth , Eduardo Unda-Sanzana , Carolina von Essen

Gravitational Binary-lens Events with Prominent Effects of Lens Orbital Motion

Gravitational microlensing events produced by lenses composed of binary masses are important because they provide a major channel to determine physical parameters of lenses. In this work, we analyze the light curves of two binary-lens…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 H. Park , A. Udalski , C. Han , A. Gould , J. -P. Beaulieu , Y. Tsapras , M. K. Szymański , M. Kubiak , I. Soszyński , G. Pietrzyński , R. Poleski , K. Ulaczyk , P. Pietrukowicz , S. Kozłowski , J. Skowron , Ł. Wyrzykowski , J. -Y. Choi , D. L. Depoy , Subo Dong , B. S. Gaudi , K. -H. Hwang , Y. K. Jung , A. Kavka , C. -U. Lee , L. A. G. Monard , B. -G. Park , R. W. Pogge , I. Porritt , I. -G. Shin , J. C. Yee , M. D. Albrow , D. P. Bennett , J. A. R. Caldwell , A. Cassan , C. Coutures , D. Dominis , J. Donatowicz , P. Fouqué , J. Greenhill , M. Huber , U. G. Jørgensen , S. Kane , D. Kubas , J. -B. Marquette , J. Menzies , C. Pitrou , K. R. Pollard , K. C. Sahu , J. Wambsganss , A. Williams , M. Zub , A. Allan , D. M. Bramich , P. Browne , M. Dominik , K. Horne , M. Hundertmark , N. Kains , C. Snodgrass , I. A. Steele , R. A. Street

PLANET observations of microlensing event OGLE-1999-BUL-23: limb darkening measurement of the source star

We present PLANET observations of OGLE-1999-BUL-23, a binary-lens microlensing event towards the Galactic bulge. PLANET observations in the I and V bands cover the event from just before the first caustic crossing until the end of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. D. Albrow , J. An , J. -P. Beaulieu , J. A. R. Caldwell , D. L. DePoy , M. Dominik , B. S. Gaudi , A. Gould , J. Greenhill , K. Hill , S. Kane , R. Martin , J. Menzies , R. W. Pogge , K. R. Pollard , P. D. Sackett , K. C. Sahu , P. Vermaak , R. Watson , A. Williams

OGLE-2013-BLG-0911Lb: A Secondary on the Brown-Dwarf Planet Boundary around an M-dwarf

We present the analysis of the binary-lens microlensing event OGLE-2013-BLG-0911. The best-fit solutions indicate the binary mass ratio of q~0.03 which differs from that reported in Shvartzvald+2016. The event suffers from the well-known…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-05 Shota Miyazaki , Takahiro Sumi , David P. Bennett , Andrzej Udalski , Yossi Shvartzvald , Rachel Street , Valerio Bozza , Jennifer C. Yee , Ian A. Bond , Nicholas Rattenbury , Naoki Koshimoto , Daisuke Suzuki , Akihiko Fukui , F. Abe , A. Bhattacharya , R. Barry , M. Donachie , H. Fujii , Y. Hirao , Y. Itow , Y. Kamei , I. Kondo , M. C. A. Li , C. H. Ling , Y. Matsubara , T. Matsuo , Y. Muraki , M. Nagakane , K. Ohnishi , C. Ranc , T. Saito , A. Sharan , H. Shibai , H. Suematsu , D. J. Sullivan , P. J. Tristram , T. Yamakawa , A. Yonehara , J. Skowron , R. Poleski , P. Mr'oz , M. K. Szyma'nski , I. Soszy'nski , P. Pietrukowicz , S. KozLowski , K. Ulaczyk , L. Wyrzykowski , Matan Friedmann , Shai Kaspi , Dan Maoz , M. Albrow , G. Christie , D. L. DePoy , A. Gal-Yam , A. Gould , C. -U. Lee , I. Manulis , J. McCormick , T. Natusch , H. Ngan , R. W. Pogge , I. Porritt , Y. Tsapras , E. Bachelet , M. P. G. Hundertmark , M. Dominik , D. M. Bramich , A. Cassan , R. Figuera Jaimes , K. Horne , R. Schmidt , C. Snodgrass , J. Wambsganss , I. A. Steele , J. Menzies , S. Mao , U. G. Jorgensen , M. J. Burgdorf , S. Ciceri , S. Calchi Novati , G. D'Ago , D. F. Evans , T. C. Hinse , N. Kains , E. Kerins , H. Korhonen , L. Mancini , A. Popovas , M. Rabus , S. Rahvar , G. Scarpetta , J. Skottfelt , J. Southworth , G. D'Ago , N. Peixinho , P. Verma

OGLE-2015-BLG-1670Lb: A Cold Neptune beyond the Snow Line in the Provisional WFIRST Microlensing Survey Field

We present the analysis of the microlensing event OGLE-2015-BLG-1670, detected in a high-extinction field, very close to the Galactic plane. Due to the dust extinction along the line of sight, this event was too faint to be detected before…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-26 Clément Ranc , David P. Bennett , Yuki Hirao , Andrzej Udalski , Cheongho Han , Ian A. Bond , Jennifer C. Yee , The KMTNet Collaboration , : , Michael D. Albrow , Sun-Ju Chung , Andrew Gould , Kyu-Ha Hwang , Youn-Kil Jung , Yoon-Hyun Ryu , In-Gu Shin , Yossi Shvartzvald , Weicheng Zang , Wei Zhu , Sang-Mok Cha , Dong-Jin Kim , Hyoun-Woo Kim , Seung-Lee Kim , Chung-Uk Lee , Dong-Joo Lee , Yong-Seok Lee , Byeong-Gon Park , Richard W. Pogge , The MOA Collaboration , : , Fumio Abe , Richard K. Barry , Aparna Bhattacharya , Martin Donachie , Akihiko Fukui , Yoshitaka Itow , Kohei Kawasaki , Iona Kondo , Naoki Koshimoto , Man Cheung Alex Li , Yutaka Matsubara , Shota Miyazaki , Yasushi Muraki , Masayuki Nagakane , Nicholas J. Rattenbury , Haruno Suematsu , Denis J. Sullivan , Takahiro Sumi , Daisuke Suzuki , Paul J. Tristram , Atsunori Yonehara , The OGLE Collaboration , : , Radosław Poleski , Przemek Mróz , Jan Skowron , Michał K. Szymański , Igor Soszyński , Szymon Kozłowski , Paweł Pietrukowicz , Krzysztof Ulaczyk

Mass Production of 2023 KMTNet Microlensing Planets. III: Three Planets from the Subprime Field

To complete the analysis of the 2023 KMTNet subprime-field microlensing planetary events identified by its AlertFinder system, we present the analysis of six events, KMT-2023-BLG-(1810, 0084, 1118, 0584, 1697, 2218). We find that the first…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-11 Hongyu Li , Zhixing Li , Weicheng Zang , Yoon-Hyun Ryu , Andrzej Udalski , Takahiro Sumi , Hongjing Yang , Jiyuan Zhang , Shude Mao , Michael Albrow , Sun-Ju Chung , Andrew Gould , Cheongho Han , Kyu-Ha Hwang , Youn Kil Jung , In-Gu Shin , Yossi Shvartzvald , Jennifer Yee , Sang-Mok Cha , Dong-Jin Kim , Seung-Lee Kim , Chung-Uk Lee , Dong-Joo Lee , Yongseok Lee , Byeong-Gon Park , Richard Pogge , Przemek Mróz , Michał Szymański , Jan Skowron , Radoslaw Poleski , Igor Soszyński , Pawel Pietrukowicz , Szymon Kozłowski , Krzysztof Rybicki , Patryk Iwanek , Krzysztof Ulaczyk , Marcin Wrona , Mariusz Gromadzki , Mateusz J. Mróz , Fumio Abe , David Bennett , Aparna Bhattacharya , Ian Bond , Ryusei Hamada , Yuki Hirao , Stela Silva , Shota Miyazaki , Yasushi Muraki , Kansuke Nunota , Greg Olmschenk , Clément Ranc , Nicholas Rattenbury , Yuki Satoh , Daisuke Suzuki , Takuto Tamaoki , Sean Terry , Paul Tristram , Aikaterini Vandorou , Hibiki Yama

KMT-2021-BLG-1150Lb: Microlensing planet detected through a densely covered planetary-caustic signal

Recently, there have been reports of various types of degeneracies in the interpretation of planetary signals induced by planetary caustics. In this work, we check whether such degeneracies persist in the case of well-covered signals by…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-12 Cheongho Han , Youn Kil Jung , Ian A. Bond , Andrew Gould , Sun-Ju Chung , Michael D. Albrow , Kyu-Ha Hwang , Yoon-Hyun Ryu , In-Gu Shin , Yossi Shvartzvald , Hongjing Yang , Jennifer C. Yee , Weicheng Zang , 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 , 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

A Binary Lensing Event Toward the LMC: Observations and Dark Matter Implications

The MACHO collaboration has recently analyzed 2.1 years of photometric data for about 8.5 million stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). This analysis has revealed 8 candidate microlensing events and a total microlensing optical depth…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 D. P. Bennett , C. Alcock , R. A. Allsman , D. Alves , T. S. Axelrod , A. Becker , K. H. Cook , K. C. Freeman , K. Griest , J. Guern , M. J. Lehner , S. L. Marshall , D. Minniti , B. A. Peterson , M. R. Pratt , P. J. Quinn , S. H. Rhie , A. W. Rodgers , C. W. Stubbs , W. Sutherland , D. Welch

Three microlensing planets with no caustic-crossing features

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…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-23 Cheongho Han , Andrzej Udalski , Doeon Kim , Chung-Uk Lee , Michael D. Albrow , Sun-Ju Chung , Andrew Gould , Kyu-Ha Hwang , Youn Kil Jung , 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 , Dong-Joo Lee , Yongseok Lee , Byeong-Gon Park , Richard W. Pogge , Przemek Mróz , Michał K. Szymański , Jan Skowron , Radosław Poleski , Igor Soszyński , Paweł Pietrukowicz , Szymon Kozłowski , Krzysztof Ulaczyk , Krzysztof A. Rybicki , Patryk Iwanek , Marcin Wrona , Mariusz Gromadzki

A Giant Planet beyond the Snow Line in Microlensing Event OGLE-2011-BLG-0251

We present the analysis of the gravitational microlensing event OGLE-2011-BLG-0251. This anomalous event was observed by several survey and follow-up collaborations conducting microlensing observations towards the Galactic Bulge. Based on…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 N. Kains , R. Street , J. -Y. Choi , C. Han , A. Udalski , L. A. Almeida , F. Jablonski , P. Tristram , U. G. Jorgensen , M. K. Szymanski , M. Kubiak , G. Pietrzynski , I. Soszynski , R. Poleski , S. Kozlowski , P. Pietrukowicz , K. Ulaczyk , L. Wyrzykowski , J. Skowron , K. A. Alsubai , V. Bozza , P. Browne , M. J. Burgdorf , S. Calchi Novati , P. Dodds , M. Dominik , S. Dreizler , X. -S. Fang , F. Grundahl , C. -H. Gu , S. Hardis , K. Harpsoe , F. V. Hessman , T. C. Hinse , A. Hornstrup , M. Hundertmark , J. Jessen-Hansen , E. Kerins , C. Liebig , M. Lund , M. Lundkvist , L. Mancini , M. Mathiasen , M. T. Penny , S. Rahvar , D. Ricci , K. C. Sahu , G. Scarpetta , J. Skottfelt , C. Snodgrass , J. Southworth , J. Surdej , J. Tregloan-Reed , J. Wambsganss , O. Wertz , D. Bajek , D. M. Bramich , K. Horne , S. Ipatov , I. A. Steele , Y. Tsapras , F. Abe , D. P. Bennett , I. A. Bond , C. S. Botzler , P. Chote , M. Freeman , A. Fukui , K. Furusawa , Y. Itow , C. H. Ling , K. Masuda , Y. Matsubara , N. Miyake , Y. Muraki , K. Ohnishi , N. Rattenbury , T. Saito , D. J. Sullivan , T. Sumi , D. Suzuki , K. Suzuki , W. L. Sweatman , S. Takino , K. Wada , P. C. M. Yock , W. Allen , V. Batista , S. -J. Chung , G. Christie , D. L. DePoy , J. Drummond , B. S. Gaudi , A. Gould , C. Henderson , Y. -K. Jung , J. -R. Koo , C. -U. Lee , J. McCormick , D. McGregor , J. A. Munoz , T. Natusch , H. Ngan , H. Park , R. W. Pogge , I. -G. Shin , J. Yee , M. D. Albrow , E. Bachelet , J. -P. Beaulieu , S. Brillant , J. A. R. Caldwell , A. Cassan , A. Cole , E. Corrales , Ch. Coutures , S. Dieters , D. Dominis Prester , J. Donatowicz , P. Fouque , J. Greenhill , S. R. Kane , D. Kubas , J. -B. Marquette , R. Martin , P. Meintjes , J. Menzies , K. R. Pollard , A. Williams , D. Wouters , M. Zub

Ogle-2018-blg-0677lb: A super earth near the galactic bulge

We report the analysis of the microlensing event OGLE-2018-BLG-0677. A small feature in the light curve of the event leads to the discovery that the lens is a star-planet system. Although there are two degenerate solutions that could not be…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-11 Antonio Herrera-Martín , M. D. Albrow , A. Udalski , A. Gould , Y. -H. Ryu , J. C. Yee , S. -J. Chung , C. Han , K. -H. Hwang , Y. K. Jung , C. -U. Lee , I. -G. Shin , Y. Shvartzvald , W. Zang , S. -M. Cha , D. -J. Kim , H. -W. Kim , S. -L. Kim , D. -J. Lee , Y. Lee , B. -G. Park , R. W. Pogge , M. K. Szymański , P. Mróz , J. Skowron , R. Poleski , I. Soszyński , S. Kozłowski , P. Pietrukowicz , K. Ulaczyk , K. Rybicki , P. Iwanek , M. Wrona

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

Determination of stellar shape in microlensing event MOA 2002-BLG-33

We report a measurement of the shape of the source star in microlensing event MOA 2002-BLG-33. The lens for this event was a close binary whose centre-of-mass passed almost directly in front of the source star. At this time, the source star…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. J. Rattenbury , F. Abe , D. P. Bennett , I. A. Bond , J. J. Calitz , A. Claret , K. H. Cook , Y. Furuta , A. Gal-Yam , J-F. Glicenstein , J. B. Hearnshaw , P. H. Hauschildt , P. M. Kilmartin , Y. Kurata , K. Masuda , D. Maoz , Y. Matsubara , P. J. Meintjes , M. Moniez , Y. Muraki , S. Noda , E. O. Ofek , K. Okajima , L. Philpott , S. H. Rhie , T. Sako , D. J. Sullivan , T. Sumi , D. M. Terndrup , P. J. Tristram , J. Wood , T. Yanagisawa , P. C. M. Yock

Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment. OGLE-1999-BUL-19: The First Multi-Peak Parallax Event

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…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. C. Smith , S. Mao , P. Wozniak , A. Udalski , M. Szymanski , M. Kubiak , G. Pietrzynski , I. Soszynski , K. Zebrun

First Resolution of Microlensed Images of a Binary-Lens Event

We resolve the multiple images of the binary-lens microlensing event ASASSN-22av using the GRAVITY instrument of the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI). The light curves show weak binary-lens perturbations, complicating the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-25 Zexuan Wu , Subo Dong , A. Mérand , Christopher S. Kochanek , Przemek Mróz , Jinyi Shangguan , Grant Christie , Thiam-Guan Tan , Thomas Bensby , Joss Bland-Hawthorn , Sven Buder , Frank Eisenhauer , Andrew P. Gould , Janez Kos , Tim Natusch , Sanjib Sharma , Andrzej Udalski , J. Woillez , David A. H. Buckley , I. B. Thompson , Karim Abd El Dayem , Anthony Berdeu , Jean-Philippe Berger , Guillaume Bourdarot , Wolfgang Brandner , Richard I. Davies , Denis Defrère , Catherine Dougados , Antonia Drescher , Andreas Eckart , Maximilian Fabricius , Helmut Feuchtgruber , Natascha M. Förster Schreiber , Paulo Garcia , Reinhard Genzel , Stefan Gillessen , Gernot Heißel , Sebastian Hönig , Mathis Houlle , Pierre Kervella , Laura Kreidberg , Sylvestre Lacour , Olivier Lai , Romain Laugier , Jean-Baptiste Le Bouquin , James Leftley , Bruno Lopez , Dieter Lutz , Felix Mang , Florentin Millour , Miguel Montargès , Hugo Nowacki , Mathias Nowak , Thomas Ott , Thibaut Paumard , Karine Perraut , Guy Perrin , Romain Petrov , Pierre-Olivier Petrucci , Nicolas Pourre , Sebastian Rabien , Diogo C. Ribeiro , Sylvie Robbe-Dubois , Matteo Sadun Bordoni , Daryl Santos , Jonas Sauter , Jules Scigliuto , Taro T. Shimizu , Christian Straubmeier , Eckhard Sturm , Matthias Subroweit , Calvin Sykes , Linda Tacconi , Frédéric Vincent , Felix Widmann

Gravitational Microlensing Evidence for a Planet Orbiting a Binary Star System

The study of extra-solar planetary systems has emerged as a new discipline of observational astronomy in the past few years with the discovery of a number of extra-solar planets. The properties of most of these extra-solar planets were not…

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