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We report the result of the analysis of the light curve of the microlensing event MOA-2009-BLG-016. The light curve is characterized by a short-duration anomaly near the peak and an overall asymmetry. We find that the peak anomaly is due to…

When a source star is microlensed by one stellar component of a widely separated binary stellar components, after finishing the lensing event, the event induced by the other binary star can be additionally detected. In this paper, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Sun-Ju Chung , Byeong-Gon Park , Yoon-Hyun Ryu , Andrew Humphrey

Source blending in microlensing experiments is known to modify the Einstein time of the observed events. In this paper, we have conducted Monte-Carlo calculations, using the analytical relationships derived by Han (1999) to quantify the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yann Alibert , Gilles Chabrier , Gerard Massacrier

A microlensing event may exhibit a second brightening when the source and/or the lens is a binary star. Previous study revealed 19 such repeating event candidates among 4120 investigated microlensing light curves of the Optical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-20 M. Jaroszynski , J. Skowron

Studies of gravitational microlensing effects require the estimation of their detection efficiency as soon as one wants to quantify the massive compact objects along the line of sight of source targets. This is particularly important for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-11 Tristan Blaineau , Marc Moniez

With several detections, the technique of gravitational microlensing has proven useful for studying planets that orbit stars at Galactic distances, and it can even be applied to detect planets in neighbouring galaxies. So far, planet…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-02 S. Rahvar , M. Dominik

We investigate high-magnification events caused by wide binary stellar and planetary systems under the moderately strong finite-source effect where the diameter of the source star is comparable with the caustics induced by a binary…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Sun-Ju Chung , Chung-Uk Lee

Though there have been some galactic microlensing events which show a clear signature of a binary lens, no event has yet been claimed as due to lensing of a binary source. Here I argue that this may be due to the fact that most of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 M. Dominik

We analyze the microlensing event KMT-2019-BLG-0797. The light curve of the event exhibits two anomalous features from a single-lens single-source model, and we aim to reveal the nature of the anomaly. It is found that a model with two…

We present an analysis of the microlensing event OGLE-2015-BLG-0232. This event is challenging to characterize for two reasons. First, the light curve is not well sampled during the caustic crossing due to the proximity of the full Moon…

We present the first public code for the calculation of the astrometric centroid shift occurring during microlensing events. The computation is based on the contour integration scheme and covers single and binary lensing of finite sources…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-26 Valerio Bozza , Elahe Khalouei , Etienne Bachelet

Microlensing event OGLE-2002-BLG-055 is characterized by a smooth, slightly asymmetric single-lens curve with an isolated, secure data point that is ~0.6 magnitudes brighter than neighboring points separated by a few days. It was previously…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 B. Scott Gaudi , Cheongho Han

In this paper, we show that the pattern of microlensing light curve anomalies induced by multiple planets are well described by the superposition of those of the single-planet systems where the individual planet-primary binary pairs act as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Cheongho Han , Heon-Young Chang , Jin H. An , Kyongae Chang

Binary microlensing light curves have a variety of morphologies. Many are indistinguishable from point lens light curves. Of those that deviate from the point lens form, caustic crossing light curves have tended to dominate identified…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Christopher Night , Rosanne Di Stefano , Megan Schwamb

Extended source effects can be seen in gravitational lensing events when sources cross critical lines. Those events probe the stellar intensity profile and could be used to measure limb darkening coefficients to test stellar model…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Hans J. Witt , F. Atrio-Barandela

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…

In this work, we investigate if gravitational microlensing can magnify the polarization signal of a stellar spot and make it be observable. A stellar spot on a source star of microlensing makes polarization signal through two channels of…

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

If stars at the lower end of the main sequence are responsible for the microlensing events observed in the Galactic bulge, then light from the lensing star contributes to the observed brightness. The background and lensing stars generally…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Marc Kamionkowski