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Mass Production of 2021 KMTNet Microlensing Planets I

We inaugurate a program of ``mass production'' of microlensing planets discovered in 2021 KMTNet data, with the aim of laying the basis for future statistical studies. While we ultimately plan to quickly publish all 2021 planets meeting…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 Yoon-Hyun Ryu , Youn Kil Jung , Hongjing Yang , Andrew Gould , Michael D. Albrow , Sun-Ju Chung , Cheongho Han , Kyu-Ha Hwang , 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 Pogge

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

Brown-dwarf companions in microlensing binaries detected during the 2016--2018 seasons

With the aim of finding microlensing binaries containing brown-dwarf (BD) companions, we investigate the microlensing survey data collected during the 2016--2018 seasons. For this purpose, we first conducted modeling of lensing events with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-16 Cheongho Han , Yoon-Hyun Ryu , In-Gu Shin , Youn Kil Jung , Doeon Kim , Yuki Hirao , Valerio Bozza , Michael D. Albrow , Weicheng Zang , Andrzej Udalski , Ian A. Bond , Sun-Ju Chung , Andrew Gould , Kyu-Ha Hwang , Yossi Shvartzvald , Hongjing Yang , Sang-Mok Cha , Dong-Jin Kim , Hyoun-Woo Kim , Seung-Lee Kim , Chung-Uk Lee , Dong-Joo Lee , Jennifer C. Yee , Yongseok Lee , Byeong-Gon Park , Richard W. Pogge , Przemek Mróz , Michał K. Szymański , Jan Skowron , Radek Poleski , Igor Soszyński , Paweł Pietrukowicz , Szymon Kozłowski , Krzysztof Ulaczyk , Krzysztof A. Rybicki , Patryk Iwanek , Marcin Wrona , Fumio Abe , Richard Barry , David P. Bennett , Aparna Bhattacharya , Hirosame Fujii , Akihiko Fukui , Stela Ishitani Silva , 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 , Paul J. Tristram , Aikaterini Vandorou , Hibiki Yama , Yoshitaka Itow

A Newly Identified Degeneracy Keeps the Planetary Interpretation Viable for OGLE-2011-BLG-0950

The microlensing event OGLE-2011-BLG-0950 exhibits the well-known ``Planet/Binary'' degeneracy, in which distinct lens configurations produce similar light curves but imply substantially different mass ratios between the lens components. A…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-21 Jiyuan Zhang , Weicheng Zang , Andrzej Udalski , Hongjing Yang , Shude Mao , Michał K. Szymański , Igor Soszyński , Radoslaw Poleski , Krzysztof Ulaczyk , Paweł Pietrukowicz , Szymon Kozłowski , Jan Skowron , Przemek Mróz , Sean K. Terry , Andrew Gould

Microlensing in globular clusters: the first confirmed lens

Microlensing observations toward globular clusters could be very useful to probe their low mass star and brown dwarf content. Using the large set of microlensing events detected so far toward the Galactic centre we investigated whether for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-23 Philippe Jetzer

The repeating microlensing event OGLE-2003-BLG-095: A plausible case for microlensing of a binary source

The apparently repeating microlensing event OGLE-2003-BLG-095 is analyzed. Data were obtained from the OGLE Internet archive and exist in the public domain. The source is relatively bright, with an unmagnified (but possibly blended)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthew J. Collinge

An Isolated Microlens Observed from K2, Spitzer and Earth

We present the result of microlensing event MOA-2016-BLG-290, which received observations from the two-wheel Kepler (K2), Spitzer, as well as ground-based observatories. A joint analysis of data from K2 and the ground leads to two…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-15 Wei Zhu , A. Udalski , C. Huang , S. Calchi Novati , T. Sumi , R. Poleski , J. Skowron , P. Mroz , M. K. Szymanski , I. Soszynski , P. Pietrukowicz , S. Kozlowski , K. Ulaczyk , M. Pawlak , C Beichman , G. Bryden , S. Carey , B. S. Gaudi , A. Gould , C. B. Henderson , Y. Shvartzvald , J. C. Yee , I. A. Bond , D. P. Bennett , D. Suzuki , N. J. Rattenbury , N. Koshimoto , F. Abe , Y. Asakura , R. K. Barry , A. Bhattacharya , M. Donachie , P. Evans , A. Fukui , Y. Hirao , Y. Itow , K. Kawasaki , M. C. A. Li , C. H. Ling , K. Masuda , Y. Matsubara , S. Miyazaki , H. Munakata , Y. Muraki , M. Nagakane , K. Ohnishi , C. Ranc , To. Saito , A. Sharan , D. J. Sullivan , P. J. Tristram , T. Yamada , A. Yonehara

Multi-wavelength study of the gravitational lens system RXS J113155.4-123155: I. Multi-epoch optical and near infrared imaging

(abridged) Aims: RXS J113155.4-123155 (z=0.66) is a quadruply imaged lensed quasar with a resolved Einstein Ring. The goal of this paper is to provide a full characterization of this system, and more particularly accurate astrometry and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Sluse , J. -F. Claeskens , B. Altieri , R. A. Cabanac , O. Garcet , D. Hutsemékers , C. Jean , A. Smette , J. Surdej

Reconciling the predictions of microlensing analysis with radial velocity measurements for OGLE-2011-BLG-0417

Microlensing is able to reveal multiple body systems located several kilo-parsec away from the Earth. Since it does not require the measurement of light from the lens, microlensing is sensitive to a range of objects from free-floating…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 E. Bachelet , J. -P. Beaulieu , I. Boisse , A. Santerne , R. A. Street

Limb-darkening measurements for a cool red giant in microlensing event OGLE 2004-BLG-482

Aims: We present a detailed analysis of OGLE 2004-BLG-482, a relatively high-magnification single-lens microlensing event which exhibits clear extended-source effects. These events are relatively rare, but they potentially contain unique…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-24 M. Zub , A. Cassan , D. Heyrovsky , P. Fouque , H. C. Stempels , M. D. Albrow , J. -P. Beaulieu , S. Brillant , G. W. Christie , N. Kains , S. Kozlowski , D. Kubas , J. Wambsganss , V. Batista , D. P. Bennett , K. Cook , C. Coutures , S. Dieters , M. Dominik , D. Dominis Prester , J. Donatowicz , J. Greenhill , K. Horne , U. G. Jorgensen , S. R. Kane , J. -B. Marquette , R. Martin , J. Menzies , K. R. Pollard , K. C. Sahu , C. Vinter , A. Williams , A. Gould , D. L. DePoy , A. Gal-Yam , B. S. Gaudi , C. Han , Y. Lipkin , D. Maoz , E. O. Ofek , B. -G. Park , R. W. Pogge , J. McCormick , A. Udalski , M. K. Szymanski , M. Kubiak , G. Pietrzynski , I. Soszynski , O. Szewczyk , L. Wyrzykowski

OGLE-2014-BLG-0221Lb: A Jupiter Mass Ratio Companion Orbiting either a Late-Type Star or a Stellar Remnant

We present the analysis of microlensing event OGLE-2014-BLG-0221, a planetary candidate event discovered in 2014. The photometric light curve is best described by a binary-lens single-source model. Our light curve modeling finds two…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-23 Rintaro Kirikawa , Takahiro Sumi , David P. Bennett , Daisuke Suzuki , Naoki Koshimoto , Shota Miyazaki , Ian A. Bond , Andrzej Udalski , Nicholas J. Rattenbury , Fumio Abe , Richard Barry , Aparna Bhattacharya , Hirosane Fujii , Akihiko Fukui , Ryusei Hamada , Yuki Hirao , Stela Ishitani Silva , Yoshitaka Itow , Yutaka Matsubara , Yasushi Muraki , Greg Olmschenk , Clément Ranc , Yuki K. Satoh , Mio Tomoyoshi , Paul . J. Tristram , Aikaterini Vandorou , Hibiki Yama , Kansuke Yamashita , Przemek Mróz , Radosław Poleski , Jan Skowron , Michał K. Szymański , Igor Soszyński , Paweł Pietrukowicz , Szymon Kozłowski , Krzysztof Ulaczyk

OGLE 2003-BLG-235/MOA 2003-BLG-53: A planetary microlensing event

We present observations of the unusual microlensing event OGLE 2003-BLG-235/MOA 2003-BLG-53. In this event a short duration (~7 days) low amplitude deviation in the light curve due a single lens profile was observed in both the MOA and OGLE…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 I. A. Bond , A. Udalski , M. Jaroszynski , N. J. Rattenbury , B. Paczynski , I. Soszynski , L. Wyrzykowski , M. K. Szymanski , M. Kubiak , O. Szewczyk , K. Zebrun , G. Pietrzynski , F. Abe , D. P. Bennett , S. Eguchi , Y. Furuta , J. B. Hearnshaw , K. Kamiya , P. M. Kilmartin , Y. Kurata , K. Masuda , Y. Matsubara , Y. Muraki , S. Noda , K. Okajima , T. Sako , T. Sekiguchi , D. J. Sullivan , T. Sumi , P. J. Tristram , T. Yanagisawa , P. C. M. Yock

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

Full characterization of binary-lens event OGLE-2002-BLG-069 from PLANET observations

We analyze the photometric data obtained by PLANET and OGLE on the caustic-crossing binary-lens microlensing event OGLE-2002-BLG-069. Thanks to the excellent photometric and spectroscopic coverage of the event, we are able to constrain the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Kubas , A. Cassan , J. P. Beaulieu , C. Coutures , M. Dominik , M. D. Albrow , S. Brillant , J. A. R. Caldwell , D. Dominis , J. Donatowicz , P. Fouque , U. G. Jorgensen , J. Greenhill , K. Hill , K. Horne , S. Kane , J. B. Marquette , R. Martin , J. Menzies , K. R. Pollard , K. C. Sahu , C. Vinter , J. Wambsganss , R. Watson , A. Williams , C. Fendt , J. Heinmueller , C. Thurl

Spitzer Microlens Measurement of a Massive Remnant in a Well-Separated Binary

We report the detection and mass measurement of a binary lens OGLE-2015-BLG-1285La,b, with the more massive component having $M_1>1.35\,M_\odot$ (80% probability). A main-sequence star in this mass range is ruled out by limits on blue…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-22 Y. Shvartzvald , A. Udalski , A. Gould , C. Han , V. Bozza , M. Friedmann , M. Hundertmark , C. Beichman , G. Bryden , S. Calchi Novati , S. Carey , M. Fausnaugh , B. S. Gaudi , C. B. Henderson , T. Kerr , R. W. Pogge , W. Varricatt , B. Wibking , J. C. Yee , W. Zhu , R. Poleski , M. Pawlak , M. K. Szymański , J. Skowron , P. Mróz , S. Kozłowski , Ł. Wyrzykowski , P. Pietrukowicz , G. Pietrzyński , I. Soszyński , K. Ulaczyk , J. -Y. Choi , H. Park , Y. K. Jung , I. -G. Shin , M. D. Albrow , B. -G. Park , S. -L. Kim , C. -U. Lee , S. -M. Cha , D. -J. Kim , Y. Lee , D. Maoz , S. Kaspi , R. A. Street , Y. Tsapras , E. Bachelet , M. Dominik , D. M. Bramich , Keith Horne , C. Snodgrass , I. A. Steele , J. Menzies , R. Figuera Jaimes , J. Wambsganss , R. Schmidt , A. Cassan , C. Ranc , S. Mao , Subo Dong , G. D'Ago , G. Scarpetta , P. Verma , U. G. Jørgensen , E. Kerins , J. Skottfelt

Mass Estimates for Some of the Binary Lenses in OGLE III Database

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…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Jaroszynski , A. Udalski , M. Kubiak , M. Szymanski , G. Pietrzynski , I. Soszynski , K. Zebrun , O. Szewczyk , L. Wyrzykowski

KMT-2025-BLG-1616Lb: First Microlensing Bound Planet From DREAMS

We present observations and analysis of the bound planetary microlensing event KMT-2025-BLG-1616. The planetary signal was captured by the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet) and the DECam Rogue Earths and Mars Survey (DREAMS).…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-16 Hongjing Yang , Weicheng Zang , Yoon-Hyun Ryu , Takahiro Sumi , Jiyuan Zhang , Hongyu Li , Cheongho Han , Yuchen Tang , Qiyue Qian , Zhixing Li , Yuxin Shang , Xikai Shan , Shude Mao , Guillermo Damke , Alfredo Zenteno , Steve Heathcote , Konstantina Boutsia , Przemek Mróz , Xiurui Zhao , Matthew Penny , Sean Terry , Patrick Tamburo , Timothy Cunningham , Quanzhi Ye , Eric W. Peng , Rachel Street , Katarzyna Kruszyńska , Etienne Bachelet , Yiannis Tsapras , Markus Hundertmark , Michael D. Albrow , Sun-Ju Chung , Andrew Gould , Kyu-Ha Hwang , Youn Kil Jung , In-Gu Shin , Yossi Shvartzvald , Jennifer C. Yee , Dong-Jin Kim , Chung-Uk Lee , Byeong-Gon Park , David P. Bennett , Ian A. Bond , Giuseppe Cataldo , Ryusei Hamada , Yuki Hirao , Asahi Idei , Shuma Makida , Shota Miyazaki , Tutumi Nagai , Togo Nagano , Seiya Nakayama , Mayu Nishio , Kansuke Nunota , Ryo Ogawa , Ryunosuke Oishi , Yui Okumoto , Nicholas J. Rattenbury , Yuki K. Satoh , Daisuke Suzuki , Motohide Tamura , Takuto Tamaoki , Hibiki Yama

Discovery of a Gas giant Planet in Microlensing Event OGLE-2014-BLG-1760

We present the analysis of the planetary microlensing event OGLE-2014-BLG-1760, which shows a strong light curve signal due to the presence of a Jupiter mass-ratio planet. One unusual feature of this event is that the source star is quite…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 A. Bhattacharya , D. P. Bennett , I. A. Bond , T. Sumi , A. Udalski , R. Street , Y. Tsapras , F. Abe , M. Freeman , A. Fukui , Y. Itow , M. C. A. Li , C. H. Ling , K. Masuda , Y. Matsubara , Y. Muraki , K. Ohnishi , L. C. Philpott , N. Rattenbury , T. Saito , A. Sharan , D. J. Sullivan , D. Suzuki , P. J. Tristram , M. K. Szymański , I. Soszyński , R. Poleski , S. Kozlowski , P. Pietrukowicz , K. Ulaczyk , L. Wyrzykowski , E Bachelet , D. M. Bramich , G. D' Ago , M. Dominik , R. Figuera Jaimes , K. Horne , M. Hundertmark , N. Kains , J. Menzies , R. Schmidt , C. Snodgrass , I. A. Steele , J Wambsganss

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

OGLE-2014-BLG-1112LB: A Microlensing Brown Dwarf Detected Through the Channel of a Gravitational Binary-Lens Event

Due to the nature depending on only the gravitational field, microlensing, in principle, provides an important tool to detect faint and even dark brown dwarfs. However, the number of identified brown dwarfs is limited due to the difficulty…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-19 C. Han , A. Udalski , V. Bozza , M. K. Szymań ski , I. Soszyński , J. Skowron , P. Mróz , R. Poleski , P. Pietrukowicz , S. Kozłowski , K. Ulaczyk , Ł. Wyrzykowski , S. Calchi Novati , G. D'Ago , M. Dominik , M. Hundertmark , U. G. Jorgensen , G. Scarpetta