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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

OGLE-2008-BLG-510: first automated real-time detection of a weak microlensing anomaly - brown dwarf or stellar binary?

The microlensing event OGLE-2008-BLG-510 is characterised by an evident asymmetric shape of the peak, promptly detected by the ARTEMiS system in real time. The skewness of the light curve appears to be compatible both with binary-lens and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 V. Bozza , M. Dominik , N. J. Rattenbury , U. G. Joergensen , Y. Tsapras , D. M. Bramich , A. Udalski , I. A. Bond , C. Liebig , A. Cassan , P. Fouque , A. Fukui , M. Hundertmark , I. -G. Shin , S. H. Lee , J. -Y. Choi , S. -Y. Park , A. Gould , A. Allan , S. Mao , L. Wyrzykowski , R. A. Street , D. Buckley , T. Nagayama , M. Mathiasen , T. C. Hinse , S. Calchi Novati , K. Harpsoee , L. Mancini , G. Scarpetta , T. Anguita , M. J. Burgdorf , K. Horne , A. Hornstrup , N. Kains , E. Kerins , P. Kjaergaard , G. Masi , S. Rahvar , D. Ricci , C. Snodgrass , J. Southworth , I. A. Steele , J. Surdej , C. C. Thoene , J. Wambsganss , M. Zub , M. D. Albrow , V. Batista , J. -P. Beaulieu , D. P. Bennett , J. A. R. Caldwell , A Cole , K. H. Cook , C. Coutures , S. Dieters , D. Dominis Prester , J. Donatowicz , J. Greenhill , S. R. Kane , D. Kubas , J. -B. Marquette , R. Martin , J. Menzies , K. R. Pollard , K. C. Sahu , A. Williams , M. K. Szymanski , M. Kubiak , G. Pietrzynski , I. Soszynski , R. Poleski , K. Ulaczyk , D. L. DePoy , S. Dong , C. Han , J. Janczak , C. -U. Lee , R. W. Pogge , F. Abe , K. Furusawa , J. B. Hearnshaw , Y. Itow , P. M. Kilmartin , A. V. Korpela , W. Lin , C. H. Ling , K. Masuda , Y. Matsubara , N. Miyake , Y. Muraki , K. Ohnishi , Y. C. Perrott , To. Saito , L. Skuljan , D. J. Sullivan , T. Sumi , D. Suzuki , W. L. Sweatman , P. J. Tristram , K. Wada , P. C. M. Yock , A. Gulbis , Y. Hashimoto , A. Kniazev , P. Vaisanen

The First Planetary Microlensing Event with Two Microlensed Source Stars

We present the analysis of microlensing event MOA-2010-BLG-117, and show that the light curve can only be explained by the gravitational lensing of a binary source star system by a star with a Jupiter mass ratio planet. It was necessary to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-23 D. P. Bennett , A. Udalski , C. Han , I. A. Bond , J. -P. Beaulieu , J. Skowron , B. S. Gaudi , N. Koshimoto , F. Abe , Y. Asakura , R. K. Barry , A. Bhattacharya , M. Donachie , P. Evans , A. Fukui , Y. Hirao , Y. Itow , M. C. A. Li , C. H. Ling , K. Masuda , Y. Matsubara , Y. Muraki , M. Nagakane , K. Ohnishi , H. Oyokawa , C. Ranc , N. J. Rattenbury , M. K. Rosenthal , To. Saito , A. Sharan , D. J. Sullivan , T. Sumi , D. Suzuki , P. J. Tristram , A. Yonehara , M. K. Szymanski , R. Poleski , I. Soszynski , K. Ulaczyk , L. Wyrzykowski , D. DePoy , A. Gould , R. W. Pogge , J. C. Yee , M. D. Albrow , E. Bachelet , V. Batista , R. Bowens-Rubin , S. Brillant , J. A. R. Caldwell , A. Cole , C. Coutures , S. Dieters , D. Dominis Prester , J. Donatowicz , P. Fouque , K. Horne , M. Hundertmark , N. Kains , S. R. Kane , J. -B. Marquette , J. Menzies , K. R. Pollard , C. Ranc , K. C. Sahu , J. Wambsganss , A. Williams , M. Zub

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

Binary Lenses in OGLE-II 1997-1999 Database. A Preliminary Study

We present 18 binary lens candidates from OGLE-II database for seasons 1997-1999. The candidates have been selected by visual light curves inspection from the subsample of strong transient events; the same procedure gives 215 single lens…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Jaroszynski

MOA-2010-BLG-328: Keck and HST Expose the Limits of Occams Razor in Microlensing

We present high resolution follow-up data of the planetary microlensing event MOA-2010-BLG-328, using Keck and the Hubble. Keck data, taken 8 years after the event, reveal a strong lens detection enabling a direct measurement of lens flux…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-14 Aikaterini Vandorou , David P. Bennett , Jean-Philippe Beaulieu , Aparna Bhattacharya , Joshua W. Blackman , Andrew A. Cole , Naoki Koshimoto , Clément Ranc , Natalia E. Rektsini , Sean K. Terry

A New Type of Ambiguity in the Planet and Binary Interpretations of Central Perturbations of High-Magnification Gravitational Microlensing Events

High-magnification microlensing events provide an important channel to detect planets. Perturbations near the peak of a high-magnification event can be produced either by a planet or a binary companion. It is known that central…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 J. -Y. Choi , I. -G. Shin , C. Han , A. Udalski , T. Sumi , A. Gould , V. Bozza , M. Dominik , P. Fouqué , K. Horne , M. K. Szymański , M. Kubiak , I. Soszyński , G. Pietrzyński , R. Poleski , K. Ulaczyk , P. Pietrukowicz , S. Kozłowski , J. Skowron , Ł. Wyrzykowski , F. Abe , D. P. Bennett , I. A. Bond , C. S. Botzler , P. Chote , M. Freeman , A. Fukui , K. Furusawa , Y. Itow , S. Kobara , C. H. Ling , K. Masuda , Y. Matsubara , N. Miyake , Y. Muraki , K. Ohmori , K. Ohnishi , N. J. Rattenbury , To. Saito , D. J. Sullivan , D. Suzuki , K. Suzuki , W. L. Sweatman , S. Takino , P. J. Tristram , K. Wada , P. C. M. Yock , D. M. Bramich , C. Snodgrass , I. A. Steele , R. A. Street , Y. Tsapras , K. A. Alsubai , P. Browne , M. J. Burgdorf , S. Calchi Novati , P. Dodds , S. Dreizler , X. -S. Fang , F. Grundahl , C. -H. Gu , S. Hardis , K. Harpsøe , T. C. Hinse , A. Hornstrup , M. Hundertmark , J. Jessen-Hansen , U. G. Jørgensen , N. Kains , E. Kerins , C. Liebig , M. Lund , M. Lunkkvist , L. Mancini , M. Mathiasen , M. T. Penny , S. Rahvar , D. Ricci , G. Scarpetta , J. Skottfelt , J. Southworth , J. Surdej , J. Tregloan-Reed , J. Wambsganss , O. Wertz , L. A. Almeida , V. Batista , G. Christie , D. L. DePoy , Subo Dong , B. S. Gaudi , C. Henderson , F. Jablonski , C. -U. Lee , J. McCormick , D. McGregor , D. Moorhouse , T. Natusch , H. Ngan , S. -Y. Park , R. W. Pogge , T. -G. Tan , G. Thornley , J. C. Yee , M. D. Albrow , E. Bachelet , J. -P. Beaulieu , S. Brillant , A. Cassan , A. A. Cole , E. Corrales , C. Coutures , S. Dieters , D. Dominis Prester , J. Donatowicz , J. Greenhill , D. Kubas , J. -B. Marquette , J. W. Menzies , K. C. Sahu , M. Zub

OGLE-2014-BLG-0319: A Sub-Jupiter-Mass Planetary Event Encountered Degeneracy with Different Mass Ratios and Lens-Source Relative Proper Motions

We report the discovery of a sub-Jovian-mass planet, OGLE-2014-BLG-0319Lb. The characteristics of this planet will be added into a future extended statistical analysis of the Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics (MOA) collaboration.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-16 Shota Miyazaki , Daisuke Suzuki , Andrzej Udalski , Naoki Koshimoto , David P. Bennett , Nicholas J. Rattenbury , Takahiro Sumi , Fumio Abe , Richard K. Barry , Aparna Bhattacharya , Ian A. Bond , Akihiko Fukui , Hirosane Fujii , Yuki Hirao , Stela Silva , Yoshitaka Itow , Rintaro Kirikawa , Iona Kondo , Brandon Munford , Y. Matsubara , Sho Matsumoto , Yasushi Muraki , Arisa Okamura , Greg Olmschenk , Clément Ranc , Yuki K. Satoh , Taiga Toda , P. J. Tristram , Hibiki Yama , A. Yonehara , Radek Poleski , Przemek Mroz , Jan Skowron , Michal Szymanski , Igor Soszynski , Pawel Pietrukowicz , Syzmon Kozlowski , Krzysztof Ulaczyk , Lukasz Wyrzykowski

Lensing of unresolved stars towards the Galactic Bulge

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

A New Non-Planetary Interpretation of the Microlensing Event OGLE-2013-BLG-0723

Recently, the discovery of a Venus-mass planet orbiting a brown-dwarf host in a binary system was reported from the analysis of the microlensing event OGLE-2013-BLG-0723. We reanalyze the event considering the possibility of other…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-06 Cheongho Han , David P. Bennett , Andrzej Udalski , Youn Kil Jung

KMT-2021-BLG-1898: Planetary microlensing event involved with binary source stars

The light curve of the microlensing event KMT-2021-BLG-1898 exhibits a short-term central anomaly with double-bump features that cannot be explained by the usual binary-lens or binary-source interpretations. With the aim of interpreting the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-03 Cheongho Han , Andrew Gould , Doeon Kim , Youn Kil Jung , Michael D. Albrow , Sun-Ju Chung , Kyu-Ha Hwang , Chung-Uk Lee , Yoon-Hyun Ryu , In-Gu Shin , Yossi Shvartzvald , Jennifer C. Yee , Weicheng Zang , Sang-Mok Cha , Dong-Jin Kim , Seung-Lee Kim , Dong-Joo Lee , Yongseok Lee , Byeong-Gon Park , Richard W. Pogge

Spitzer Microlensing Program as a Probe for Globular Cluster Planets. Analysis of OGLE-2015-BLG-0448

The microlensing event OGLE-2015-BLG-0448 was observed by Spitzer and lay within the tidal radius of the globular cluster NGC 6558. The event had moderate magnification and was intensively observed, hence it had the potential to probe the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-31 Radosław Poleski , Wei Zhu , Grant W. Christie , Andrzej Udalski , Andrew Gould , Etienne Bachelet , Jesper Skottfelt , Sebastiano Calchi Novati , M. K. Szymański , I. Soszyński , G. Pietrzyński , Ł. Wyrzykowski , K. Ulaczyk , P. Pietrukowicz , Szymon Kozłowski , J. Skowron , P. Mróz , M. Pawlak , C. Beichman , G. Bryden , S. Carey , M. Fausnaugh , B. S. Gaudi , C. B. Henderson , R. W. Pogge , Y. Shvartzvald , B. Wibking , J. C. Yee , T. G. Beatty , J. D. Eastman , J. Drummond , M. Friedmann , M. Henderson , J. A. Johnson , S. Kaspi , D. Maoz , J. McCormick , N. McCrady , T. Natusch , H. Ngan , I. Porritt , H. M. Relles , D. H. Sliski , T. -G. Tan , R. A. Wittenmyer , J. T. Wright , R. A. Street , Y. Tsapras , D. M. Bramich , K. Horne , C. Snodgrass , I. A. Steele , J. Menzies , R. Figuera Jaimes , J. Wambsganss , R. Schmidt , A. Cassan , C. Ranc , S. Mao , V. Bozza , M. Dominik , M. P. G. Hundertmark , U. G. Jørgensen , M. I. Andersen , M. J. Burgdorf , S. Ciceri , G. D'Ago , D. F. Evans , S. -H. Gu , T. C. Hinse , N. Kains , E. Kerins , H. Korhonen , M. Kuffmeier , L. Mancini , A. Popovas , M. Rabus , S. Rahvar , R. T. Rasmussen , G. Scarpetta J. Southworth , J. Surdej , E. Unda-Sanzana , P. Verma , C. von Essen , Y. -B. Wang , O. Wertz

Candidate Gravitational Microlensing Events for Future Direct Lens Imaging

The mass of the lenses giving rise to Galactic microlensing events can be constrained by measuring the relative lens-source proper motion and lens flux. The flux of the lens can be separated from that of the source, companions to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 C. B. Henderson , H. Park , T. Sumi , A. Udalski , A. Gould , Y. Tsapras , C. Han , B. S. Gaudi , V. Bozza , 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 , D. Suzuki , W. L. Sweatman , P. J. Tristram , N. Tsurumi , K. Wada , N. Yamai , P. C. M. Yock , A. Yonehara , M. K. Szymański , M. Kubiak , G. Pietrzyński , I. Soszyński , J. Skowron , S. Kozłowski , R. Poleski , K. Ulaczyk , Ł. Wyrzykowski , P. Pietrukowicz , L. A. Almeida , M. Bos , J. -Y. Choi , G. W. Christie , D. L. Depoy , Subo Dong , M. Friedmann , K. -H. Hwang , F. Jablonski , Y. K. Jung , S. Kaspi , C. -U. Lee , D. Maoz , J. McCormick , D. Moorhouse , T. Natusch , H. Ngan , R. W. Pogge , I. -G. Shin , Y. Shvartzvald , T. -G. Tan , G. Thornley , J. C. Yee , A. Allan , D. M. Bramich , P. Browne , M. Dominik , K. Horne , M. Hundertmark , R. Figuera Jaimes , N. Kains , C. Snodgrass , I. A. Steele , R. A. Street

OGLE-2014-BLG-1760: A Jupiter-Sun analogue residing in the Galactic Bulge

We present the analysis of OGLE-2014-BLG-1760, a planetary system in the galactic bulge. We combine Keck Adaptive Optics follow-up observations in $K$-band with re-reduced light curve data to confirm the source and lens star identifications…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-19 Natalia E. Rektsini , Clement Ranc , Naoki Koshimoto , Jean-Philippe Beaulieu , David P. Bennett , Andrew A. Cole , Aparna Bhattacharya , Etienne Bachelet , Ian A. Bond , Andrzej Udalski , Joshua W. Blackman , Aikaterini Vandorou , Thomas J. Plunkett , Jean-Baptiste Marquette

OGLE-2005-BLG-153: Microlensing Discovery and Characterization of A Very Low Mass Binary

The mass function and statistics of binaries provide important diagnostics of the star formation process. Despite this importance, the mass function at low masses remains poorly known due to observational difficulties caused by the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 K. -H. Hwang , A. Udalski , C. Han , Y. -H. Ryu , I. A. Bond , J. -P. Beaulieu , M. Dominik , K. Horne , A. Gould , B. S. Gaudi , M. Kubiak , M. K. Szymanski , G. Pietrzynski , I. Soszynski , O. Szewczyk , K. Ulaczyk , L. Wyrzykowski , F. Abe , C. S. Botzler , J. B. Hearnshaw , Y. Itow , K. Kamiya , P. M. Kilmartin , K. Masuda , Y. Matsubara , M. Motomura , Y. Muraki , S. Nakamura , K. Ohnishi , C. Okada , N. Rattenbury , To. Saito , T. Sako , M. Sasaki , D. J. Sullivan , T. Sumi , P. J. Tristram , J. N. Wood , P. C. M. Yock , T. Yoshioka , M. Albrow , D. P. Bennett , D. M. Bramich , S. Brillant , J. A. R. Caldwell , J. J. Calitz , A. Cassan , K. H. Cook , E. Corrales , C. Coutures , M. Desort , S. Dieters , D. Dominis , J. Donatowicz , P. Fouque , J. Greenhill , K. Harpsoe , K. Hill , M. Hoffman , U. G. Jorgensen , S. Kane , D. Kubas , R. Martin , J. -B. Marquette , P. Meintjes , J. Menzies , K. Pollard , K. Sahu , I. Steele , C. Vinter , J. Wambsganss , A. Williams , K. Woller , M. Burgdorf , C. Snodgrass , M. Bode , D. L. Depoy , C. -U. Lee , B. -G. Park , R. W. Pogge

Black Hole, Neutron Star and White Dwarf Candidates from Microlensing with OGLE-III

Most stellar remnants so far have been found in binary systems, where they interact with matter from their companions. Isolated neutron stars and black holes are difficult to find as they are dark, yet they are predicted to exist in our…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-16 L. Wyrzykowski , Z. Kostrzewa-Rutkowska , J. Skowron , K. A. Rybicki , P. Mroz , S. Kozlowski , A. Udalski , M. K. Szymanski , G. Pietrzynski , I. Soszynski , K. Ulaczyk , P. Pietrukowicz , R. Poleski , M. Pawlak , K. Ilkiewicz , N. J. Rattenbury

First Space-based Microlens Parallax Measurement of an Isolated Star: Spitzer Observations of OGLE-2014-BLG-0939

We present the first space-based microlens parallax measurement of an isolated star. From the striking differences in the lightcurve as seen from Earth and from Spitzer (~1 AU to the West), we infer a projected velocity v_helio,projected ~…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 J. C. Yee , A. Udalski , S. Calchi Novati , A. Gould , S. Carey , R. Poleski , B. S. Gaudi , R. W. Pogge , J. Skowron , S. Kozłowski , P. Mróz , P. Pietrukowicz , G. Pietrzyński , M. K. Szymański , I. Soszyński , K. Ulaczyk , Ł . Wyrzykowski

KMT-2022-BLG-0086: Another binary-lens binary-source microlensing event

We present the analysis of a microlensing event KMT-2022-BLG-0086 of which the overall light curve is not described by a binary-lens single-source (2L1S) model, which suggests the existence of an extra lens or an extra source. We found that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-27 Sun-Ju Chung , Kyu-Ha Hwang , Jennifer C. Yee , Andrew Gould , Ian A. Bond , Hongjing Yang , Michael D. Albrow , Youn Kil Jung , Cheongho Han , Yoon-Hyun Ryu , In-Gu Shin , Yossi Shvartzvald , Weicheng Zang , Sang-Mok Cha , Dong-Jin Kim , Seung-Lee Kim , Chung-Uk Lee , Dong-Joo Lee , Yongseok Lee , Byeong-Gon Park , Richard W. Pogge , Fumio Abe , David P. Bennett , Aparna Bhattacharya , Akihiko Fukui , Ryusei Hamada , Yuki Hirao , Stela Ishitani Silva , Naoki Koshimoto , Shota Miyazaki , Yasushi Muraki , Tutumi Nagai , Kansuke Nunota , Greg Olmschenk , Clément Ranc , Nicholas J. Rattenbury , Yuki Satoh , Takahiro Sumi , Daisuke Suzuki , Sean K. Terry , Paul J. Tristram , Aikaterini Vandorou , Hibiki Yama

OGLE-2019-BLG-0362Lb: A super-Jovian-mass planet around a low-mass star

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…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 Sun-Ju Chung , Jennifer C. Yee , Andrej Udalski , Andrew Gould , Michael D. Albrow , Youn Kil Jung , Kyu-Ha Hwang , Cheongho Han , Yoon-Hyun Ryu , In-Gu Shin , Yossi Shvartzvald , Weicheng Zang , Sang-Mok Cha , Dong-Jin Kim , Seung-Lee Kim , Chung-Uk Lee , Dong-Joo Lee , Yongseok Lee , Byeong-Gon Park , Richard W. Pogge , Radek Poleski , Przemek Mróz Paweł Pietrukowicz , Jan Skowron , Michał K. Szymański , Igor Soszyński , Szymon Kozłowski , Krzysztof A. Rybicki , Patryk Iwanek , Marcin Wrona , Mariusz Gromadzki , Krzysztof Ulaczyk

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