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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

The first radial velocity measurements of a microlensing event: no evidence for the predicted binary

The gravitational microlensing technique allows the discovery of exoplanets around stars distributed in the disk of the galaxy towards the bulge. However, the alignment of two stars that led to the discovery is unique over the timescale of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-09 I. Boisse , A. Santerne , J. -P. Beaulieu , W. Fakhardji , N. C. Santos , P. Figueira , S. G. Sousa , C. Ranc

A Reanalysis of Public Galactic Bulge Gravitational Microlensing Events from OGLE-III and IV

Modern surveys of gravitational microlensing events have progressed to detecting thousands per year. Surveys are capable of probing Galactic structure, stellar evolution, lens populations, black hole physics, and the nature of dark matter.…

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Mass Measurements of Isolated Objects from Space-based Microlensing

We report on the mass and distance measurements of two single-lens events from the 2015 \emph{Spitzer} microlensing campaign. With both finite-source effect and microlens parallax measurements, we find that the lens of OGLE-2015-BLG-1268 is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-06 Wei Zhu , S. Calchi Novati , A. Gould , A. Udalski , C. Han , Y. Shvartzvald , C. Ranc , U. G. Jorgensen , R. Poleski , V. Bozza , C. Beichman , G. Bryden , S. Carey , B. S. Gaudi , C. B. Henderson , R. W. Pogge , I. Porritt , B. Wibking , J. C. Yee , M. Pawlak , M. K. Szymanski , J. Skowron , P. Mroz , S. Kozlowski , L. Wyrzykowski , P. Pietrukowicz , G. Pietrzynski , I. Soszynski , 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 , D. -J. Kim , Y. Lee , M. Friedmann , S. Kaspi , D. Maoz , M. Hundertmark , R. A. Street , Y. Tsapras , D. M. Bramich , A. Cassan , M. Dominik , E. Bachelet , Subo Dong , R. Figuera Jaimes , K. Horne , S. Mao , J. Menzies , R. Schmidt , C. Snodgrass , I. A. Steele , J. Wambsganss , J. Skottfelt , M. I. Andersen , M. J. Burgdorf , S. Ciceri , G. D'Ago , D. F. Evans , S. -H. Gu , T. C. Hinse , E. Kerins , H. Korhonen , M. Kuffmeier , L. Mancini , N. Peixinho , A. popovas , M. Rabus , S. Rahvar , R. T. Rasmussen , G. Scarpetta , J. Southworth , J. Surdej , C. von Essen , Y. -B. Wang , O. Wertz

KMT-2019-BLG-1339L: an M Dwarf with a Giant Planet or a Companion Near the Planet/Brown Dwarf Boundary

We analyze KMT-2019-BLG-1339, a microlensing event with an obvious but incompletely resolved brief anomaly feature around the peak of the light curve. Although the origin of the anomaly is identified to be a companion to the lens with a low…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 Cheongho Han , Doeon Kim , Andrzej Udalski , Andrew Gould , Michael D. Albrow , Sun-Ju Chung , Kyu-Ha Hwang , Youn Kil Jung , Chung-Uk Lee , 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. Szyma'nski , Jan Skowron , Radosław Poleski , Igor Soszyński , Paweł Pietrukowicz , Szymon Kozłowski , Krzysztof Ulaczyk , Krzysztof A. Rybicki , Patryk Iwanek , Marcin Wrona , Mariusz Gromadzki

OGLE-2017-BLG-1130: The First Binary Gravitational Microlens Detected From Spitzer Only

We analyze the binary gravitational microlensing event OGLE-2017-BLG-1130 (mass ratio q~0.45), the first published case in which the binary anomaly was only detected by the Spitzer Space Telescope. This event provides strong evidence that…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-13 Tianshu Wang , S. Calchi Novati , A. Udalski , A. Gould , Shude Mao , W. Zang , C. Beichman , G. Bryden , S. Carey , B. S. Gaudi , C. B. Henderson , Y. Shvartzvald , J. C. Yee , P. Mroz , R. Poleski , J. Skowron , M. K. Szymanski , I. Soszynski , S. Kozlowski , P. Pietrukowicz , K. Ulaczyk , M. Pawlak , M. D. Albrow , S. -J. Chung , C. Han , K. -H. Hwang , Y. K. Jung , Y. -H. Ryu , I. -G. Shin , W. Zhu , S. -M. Cha , D. -J. Kim , H. -W. Kim , S. -L. Kim , C. -U. Lee , D. -J. Lee , Y. Lee , B. -G. Park , R. W. Pogge

KMT-2022-BLG-0440Lb: A New $q < 10^{-4}$ Microlensing Planet with the Central-Resonant Caustic Degeneracy Broken

We present the observations and analysis of a high-magnification microlensing planetary event, KMT-2022-BLG-0440, for which the weak and short-lived planetary signal was covered by both the KMTNet survey and follow-up observations. The…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-17 Jiyuan Zhang , Weicheng Zang , Youn Kil Jung , Hongjing Yang , Andrew Gould , Takahiro Sumi , Shude Mao , Subo Dong , Michael D. Albrow , Sun-Ju Chung , Cheongho Han , Kyu-Ha Hwang , Yoon-Hyun Ryu , In-Gu Shin , Yossi Shvartzvald , Jennifer C. Yee , 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 , Qiyue Qian , Zhuokai Liu , Dan Maoz , Matthew T. Penny , Wei Zhu , Fumio Abe , Richard Barry , David P. Bennett , Aparna Bhattacharya , Ian A. Bond , Hirosane 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 , Daisuke Suzuki , Taiga Toda , Mio Tomoyoshi , Paul J. Tristram , Aikaterini Vandorou , Hibiki Yama , Kansuke Yamashita

A possible binary system of a stellar remnant in the high magnification gravitational microlensing event OGLE-2007-BLG-514

We report the extremely high magnification (A > 1000) binary microlensing event OGLE-2007-BLG-514. We obtained good coverage around the double peak structure in the light curve via follow-up observations from different observatories. The…

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The Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment. Variable Baseline Microlensing Events in the Galactic Bulge

We present the first systematic search for microlensing events with variability in their baselines using data from the third phase of the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE-III). A total of 137 candidates (88 new) was discovered…

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

Four Cold Super-Jupiters Revealed by Extended and Complex Microlensing Signals

We present the analysis of four microlensing events, KMT-2020-BLG-0202, KMT-2022-BLG-1551, KMT-2023-BLG-0466, and KMT-2025-BLG-0121, which exhibit extended and complex anomalies in their light curves. These events were identified through a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-21 Cheongho Han , Chung-Uk Lee , Michael D. Albrow , Sun-Ju Chung , Andrew Gould , Youn Kil Jung , Kyu-Ha Hwang , Yoon-Hyun Ryu , Yossi Shvartzvald , In-Gu Shin , Jennifer C. Yee , Weicheng Zang , Hongjing Yang , Doeon Kim , Dong-Jin Kim , Sang-Mok Cha , Seung-Lee Kim , Dong-Joo Lee , Yongseok Lee , Byeong-Gon Park , Richard W. Pogge

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

Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment. OGLE 2000-BUL-43: A Spectacular Ongoing Parallax Microlensing Event. Difference Image Analysis

We present the photometry and theoretical models for a Galactic bulge microlensing event OGLE-2000-BUL-43. The event is very bright with I=13.54 mag, and has a very long time scale, t_E=156 days. The long time scale and its light curve…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 I. Soszynski , K. Zebrun , P. R. Wozniak , S. Mao , A. Udalski , M. Szymanski , M. Kubiak , G. Pietrzynski , O. Szewczyk , L. Wyrzykowski

The second multiple-planet system discovered by microlensing: OGLE-2012-BLG-0026Lb, c, a pair of jovian planets beyond the snow line

We report the discovery of a planetary system from observation of the high-magnification microlensing event OGLE-2012-BLG-0026. The lensing light curve exhibits a complex central perturbation with multiple features. We find that the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 C. Han , A. Udalski , J. -Y. Choi , J. C. Yee , A. Gould , G. Christie , T. -G. Tan , M. K. Szymański , M. Kubiak , I. Soszyński , G. Pietrzyński , R. Poleski , K. Ulaczyk , P. Pietrukowicz , S. Kozłowski , J. Skowron , Ł. Wyrzykowski , L. A. Almeida , V. Batista , D. L. Depoy , Subo Dong , J. Drummond , B. S. Gaudi , K. -H. Hwang , F. Jablonski , Y. -K. Jung , C. -U. Lee , J. -R. Koo , J. McCormick , L. A. G. Monard , T. Natusch , H. Ngan , H. Park , R. W. Pogge , Ian Porritt , I. -G. Shin

A Short, Non-Planetary, Microlensing Anomaly: Observations and Lightcurve Analysis of MACHO 99-BLG-47

We analyze PLANET and MACHO observations of MACHO 99-BLG-47, the first nearly-normal microlensing event for which high signal-to-noise-ratio data reveal a well-covered, short-duration anomaly. This anomaly occurs near the the peak 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

AT2021uey: A planetary microlensing event outside the Galactic bulge

We report the analysis of a planetary microlensing event AT2021uey. The event was observed outside the Galactic bulge and was alerted by both space- (Gaia) and ground-based (ZTF and ASAS-SN) surveys. From the observed data, we find that the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-07 M. Ban , P. Voloshyn , R. Adomaviciene , E. Bachelet , V. Bozza , S. M. Brincat , I. Bruni , U. Burgaz , J. M. Carrasco , A. Cassan , V. Cepas , F. Cusano , M. Dennefeld , M. Dominik , F. Dubois , R. Figuera Jaimes , A. Fukui , C. Galdies , A. Garofalo , M. Hundertmark , I. Ilyin , K. Kruszynska , V. Kulijanishvili , T. Kvernadze , L. Logie , M. Maskoliunas , P. J. Mikolajczyk , P. Mroz , N. Narita , E. Pakstiene , J. Peloton , R. Poleski , J. K. T. Qvam , S. Rau , P. Rota , K. A. Rybicki , R. A. Street , Y. Tsapras , S. Vanaverbeke , J. Wambsganss , L. Wyrzykowski , J. Zdanavicius , M. Zejmo , P. Zielinski , S. Zola

Microlensing optical depth and event rate toward the Galactic bulge from 8 yr of OGLE-IV observations

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…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-14 P. Mroz , A. Udalski , J. Skowron , M. K. Szymanski , I. Soszynski , L. Wyrzykowski , P. Pietrukowicz , S. Kozlowski , R. Poleski , K. Ulaczyk , K. Rybicki , P. Iwanek

Astrometric Detection of Double Gravitational Microlensing Events

If a gravitational microlensing event is caused by a widely separated binary lens and the source approaches both lens components, the source flux is successively magnified by the individual lenses: double microlensing events. If events are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Cheongho Han , Byeong-Gon Park , Wonyong Han , Young Woon Kang

MOA-2010-BLG-073L: An M-Dwarf with a Substellar Companion at the Planet/Brown Dwarf Boundary

We present an analysis of the anomalous microlensing event, MOA-2010-BLG-073, announced by the Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics survey on 2010-03-18. This event was remarkable because the source was previously known to be…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 R. A. Street , J. -Y. Choi , Y. Tsapras , C. Han , K. Furusawa , M. Hundertmark , A. Gould , T. Sumi , I. A. Bond , D. Wouters , R. Zellem , A. Udalski , C. Snodgrass , K. Horne , M. Dominik , P. Browne , N. Kains , D. M. Bramich , D. Bajek , I. A. Steele , S. Ipatov , F. Abe , D. P. Bennett , C. S. Botzler , P. Chote , M. Freeman , A. Fukui , P. Harris , Y. Itow , C. H. Ling , K. Masuda , Y. Matsubara , N. Miyake , Y. Muraki , T. Nagayama , S. Nishimaya , K. Ohnishi , N. Rattenbury , To. Saito , D. J. Sullivan , D. Suzuki , W. L. Sweatman , P. J. Tristram , K. Wada , P. C. M. Yock , M. K. Szymanski , M. Kubiak , G. Pietrzynski , I. Soszynski , R. Poleski , K. Ulaczyk , L. Wyrzykowski , J. Yee , S. Dong , I. -G. Shin , C. -U. Lee , J. Skowron , L. Andrade De Almeida , D. L. DePoy , B. S. Gaudi , L. -W. Hung , F. Jablonski , S. Kaspi , N. Klein , K. -H. Hwang , J. -R. Koo , D. Maoz , J. A. Munoz , R. W. Pogge , D. Polishhook , A. Shporer , J. McCormick , G. Christie , T. Natusch , B. Allen , J. Drummond , D. Moorhouse , G. Thornley , M. Knowler , M. Bos , G. Bolt , J. -P. Beaulieu , M. D. Albrow , V. Batista , S. Brillant , J. A. R. Caldwell , A. Cassan , A. Cole , E. Corrales , Ch. Coutures , S. Dieters , D. Dominis Prester , J. Donatowicz , P. Fouque , E. Bachelet , J. Greenhill , S. R. Kane , D. Kubas , J. -B. Marquette , R. Martin , J. Menzies , K. R. Pollard , K. C. Sahu , J. Wambsganss , A. Williams , M. Zub , K. A. Alsubai , V. Bozza , M. J. Burgdorf , S. Calchi Novati , P. Dodds , S. Dreizler , F. Finet , T. Gerner , S. Hardis , K. Harpsoe , F. Hessman , T. C. Hinse , U. G. Jorgensen , E. Kerins , C. Liebig , L. Mancini , M. Mathiasen , M. T. Penny , S. Proft , S. Rahvar , D. Ricci , G. Scarpetta , S. Schafer , F. Schonebeck , J. Southworth , J. Surdej

KMT-2016-BLG-0212: First KMTNet-Only Discovery of a Substellar Companion

We present the analysis of KMT-2016-BLG-0212, a low flux-variation $(I_{\rm flux-var}\sim 20$) microlensing event, which is well-covered by high-cadence data from the three Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet) telescopes. The event…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-09 K. -H. Hwang , H. -W. Kim , D. -J. Kim , A. Gould , M. D. Albrow , S. -J. Chung , C. Han , Y. K. Jung , Y. -H. Ryu , I. -G. Shin , Y. Shvartzvald , J. C. Yee , W. Zang , W. Zhu , S. -M. Cha , S. -L. Kim , C. -U. Lee , D. -J. Lee , Y. Lee , B. -G. Park , R. W. Pogge

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