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We investigate high-magnification events caused by planets in wide binary stellar systems under the strong finite-source effect, where the planet orbits one of the companions. From this, we find that the pattern of central perturbations in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Sun-Ju Chung , Byeong-Gon Park

The gravitational microlensing as a unique astrophysical tool can be used for studying the atmosphere of stars thousands of parsec far from us. This capability results from the bending of light rays in the gravitational field of a lens…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 Sedighe Sajadian , Sohrab Rahvar

The phenomenon of microlensing has successfully been used to detect extrasolar planets. By observing characteristic, rare deviations in the gravitational microlensing light curve one can discover that a lens is a star--planet system. In…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-15 Krzysztof Rybicki , Łukasz Wyrzykowski

In this paper, we investigate the properties of the planet-induced deviations in the trajectory of the microlensed source star centroid motion (astrometric curve) and the correlations between the astrometric and photometric deviations. For…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Cheongho Han , Chunguk Lee

Despite the suspected binarity for a significant fraction of Galactic lenses, the current photometric surveys detected binary microlensing events only for a small fraction of the total events. The detection efficiency is especially low for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Cheongho Han

At present, microlensing light curves from different telescopes and filters are photometrically aligned by fitting them to a common model. We present a second method based on photometry of common field stars. If two spectral responses are…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Andrew Gould , Subo Dong , David P. Bennett , Ian A. Bond , Andrzej Udalski , Szymon Kozlowski

In the current strategy of microlensing planet searches focusing on high-magnification events, wide and close binaries pose important sources of contamination that imitates planetary signals. For the purpose of finding systematic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Cheongho Han

We consider the effects induced by the presence of hot and cold spots on the source star in the light curves of simulated microlensing events due to either single or binary lenses taking into account the rotation of the source star and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-23 Mosè Giordano , Achille A. Nucita , Francesco De Paolis , Gabriele Ingrosso

(abridged) Using the particularly long gravitational microlensing event OGLE-2014-BLG-1186 with a time-scale $t_\mathrm{E}$ ~ 300 d, we present a methodology for identifying the nature of localised deviations from single-lens point-source…

The aim of this paper is to study the astrometric trajectory of microlensing events with an extended lens and/or source. We consider not only a dark lens but also a luminous lens as well. We find that the discontinuous finite-lens…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 C. -H. Lee , S. Seitz , A. Riffeser , R. Bender

Detecting colour changes of a gravitational microlensing event induced by the limb-darkened extended source effect is important to obtain useful information both about the lens and source star. However, precise measurements of the colour…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Cheongho Han , Seong-Hong Park

A planetary microlensing signal is generally characterized by a short-term perturbation to the standard single lensing light curve. A subset of binary-source events can produce perturbations that mimic planetary signals, thereby introducing…

Gaudi & Gould (1997) showed that close companions of remote binary systems can be efficiently detected by using gravitational microlensing via the deviations in the lensing light curves induced by the existence of the lens companions. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Heon-Young Chang , Cheongho Han

The light curve of the microlensing event KMT-2021-BLG-0240 exhibits a short-lasting anomaly with complex features near the peak at the 0.1~mag level from a single-lens single-source model. We conducted modeling of the lensing light curve…

When a source star is gravitationally microlensed by a dark lens, the centroid of the source star image is displaced relative to the position of the unlensed source star with an elliptical trajectory. Recently, routine astrometric follow-up…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Cheongho Han , Youngjin Jeong

To generate the standard microlensing light curve one assumes that the relative motion of the source, the lens, and the observer is linear. In reality, the relative motion is likely to be more complicated due to accelerations of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. C. Smith , S. Mao , B. Paczynski

We present the analysis of the microlensing event KMT-2018-BLG-1743. The light curve of the event, with a peak magnification $A_{\rm peak}\sim 800$, exhibits two anomaly features, one around the peak and the other on the falling side of the…

To improve the planet detection efficiency, current planetary microlensing experiments are focused on high-magnification events searching for planetary signals near the peak of lensing light curves. However, it is known that central…

The microlensing monitoring programs have studied large numbers of standard light curves which seem to be due to lensing by a dark point mass. Theory predicts that many microlensing events should display significant deviations from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Rosanne Di Stefano , Rosalba Perna