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We completed the search for microlensing events in the zero latitude area of the Galactic bulge using the VVV Survey near-IR data obtained between 2010 and 2015. We have now a total sample of N = 630 events Using the near-IR Color-Magnitude…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-26 María Gabriela Navarro , Dante Minniti , Rodrigo Contreras Ramos

We analyze photometric observations of stars, which experienced microlensing events at the considered time, in order to compare the efficiency of detecting exoplanets in observations performed at thirteen different telescopes and with…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-24 S. I. Ipatov

This paper presents an investigation into the gravitational microlensing of quasars by stars and stellar remnants in the Milky Way. We present predictions for the all-sky microlensing optical depth, time-scale distributions and event rates…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Jian Wang , Martin C. Smith

We report on the methodology and first results from the Deep Lens Survey transient search. We utilize image subtraction on survey data to yield all sources of optical variability down to 24th magnitude. Images are analyzed immediately after…

The number and properties of observed gravitational microlensing events depend on the distribution and kinematics of stars and other compact objects along the line of sight. In particular, precise measurements of the microlensing optical…

We present new lensing frequency estimates for existing and forthcoming deep near-infrared surveys, including those from JWST and VISTA. The estimates are based on the JAdes extraGalactic Ultradeep Artificial Realisations (JAGUAR) galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-16 Philip Holloway , Aprajita Verma , Philip J. Marshall , Anupreeta More , Matthias Tecza

In this work, we present the analysis of the binary microlensing event OGLE-2018-BLG-0022 that is detected toward the Galactic bulge field. The dense and continuous coverage with the high-quality photometry data from ground-based…

Detection of signals from a possible extrasolar technological civilization is one of the challenging efforts of science. In this work, we propose using natural telescopes made of single or binary gravitational lensing systems to magnify…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-31 Sohrab Rahvar

Stellar microlensing is a powerful method to constrain compact dark matter models, uncover binary stars, and exoplanets during caustic crossing events. At cosmological distances, {\it James-Webb Space Telescope} ({\it JWST}) is routinely…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-14 Sung Kei Li , Thomas Broadhurst , Jose M. Diego , Jeremy Lim , Jose M. Palencia , James Nianias

A comprehensive new approach is presented for deriving probability densities of physical properties characterizing lens or source that constitute an observed galactic microlensing event. While previously encountered problems are overcome,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Dominik

Currently astrometric microlensing is the only tool that can directly measure the mass of a single star, it can also help us to detect compact objects like isolated neutron stars and black holes. The number of microlensing events that are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-01 Jie Su , Jiancheng Wang , Yigong Zhang , Xiangming Cheng , Lei Yang

We analyze three years (1998-2000) of OGLE observations of microlensing events to place limits on the abundance of planets with a planet-to-star mass ratio $q=10^{-3}$ at distances $\sim 1-4$AU from their host stars, i.e. `cool Jupiters'.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yiannis Tsapras , Keith Horne , Stephen Kane , Richard Carson

Microlensing surveys have discovered thousands of events with almost all events discovered within the Galactic bulge or toward the Magellanic clouds. The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), while not designed to be a microlensing campaign, is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-23 Michael S. Medford , Jessica R. Lu , William A. Dawson , Casey Y. Lam , Nathan R. Golovich , Edward F. Schlafly , Peter Nugent

The detection of old neutron stars and black holes in isolation is one of the cornerstones of compact object astrophysics. Microlensing surveys may help on this purpose since the lensing mechanism is independent of the emission properties…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 N. Sartore , A. Treves

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 describe a new microlensing-event alert algorithm that is tailored to the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet) multi-observatory system. The algorithm focuses on detecting "rising" events, i.e., events whose brightness is…

We investigate the possibilities that pulsars act as the lens in gravitational microlensing events towards the galactic bulge or a spiral arm. Our estimation is based on expectant survey and observations of FAST (Five hundred meter Aperture…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 S. Dai , R. X. Xu , A. Esamdin

Gravitational microlensing has the potential to provide direct gravitational masses of single, free-floating brown dwarfs, independent of evolutionary and atmospheric models. The proper motions and parallaxes of nearby brown dwarfs can be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-30 Judah Luberto , Emily C. Martin , Peter McGill , Alexie Leauthaud , Andrew J. Skemer , Jessica R. Lu

We present observations of 8 Galactic Bulge microlensing events taken with the 1.0m JKT on La Palma during 2000 June and July. The JKT observing schedule was optimized using a prioritizing algorithm to automatically update the target list.…