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We report the detection of the first 2 microlensing candidates from the Wendelstein Calar Alto Pixellensing Project (WeCAPP). Both are detected with a high signal-to-noise-ratio and were filtered out from 4.5 mill. pixel light curves using…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Arno Riffeser , Juergen Fliri , Ralf Bender , Stella Seitz , Claus A. Goessl

We present the Catalog of microlensing events detected toward the Galactic bulge in three observing seasons, 1997--1999, during the OGLE-II microlensing survey. The search for microlensing events was performed using a database of about…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Udalski , K. Zebrun , M. Szymanski , M. Kubiak , G. Pietrzynski , I. Soszynski , P. Wozniak

WFPC-2 images are used to study the central structure of M31, M32, and M33. The dimmer peak, P2, of the M31 double nucleus is centered on the bulge to 0.1", implying that it is the dynamical center of M31. P2 contains a compact source…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Tod R. Lauer , S. M. Faber , Edward A. Ajhar , Carl J. Grillmair , Paul A. Scowen

We report the discovery and the analysis of the short (tE < 5 days) planetary microlensing event, OGLE-2015-BLG-1771. The event was discovered by the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE), and the planetary anomaly (at I ~ 19) was…

While dozens of stellar mass black holes have been discovered in binary systems, isolated black holes have eluded detection. Their presence can be inferred when they lens light from a background star. We attempt to detect the astrometric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-19 J. R. Lu , E. Sinukoff , E. O. Ofek , A. Udalski , S. Kozlowski

We report the discovery and the analysis of the planetary microlensing event, OGLE-2013-BLG-1761. There are some degenerate solutions in this event because the planetary anomaly is only sparsely sampled. But the detailed light curve…

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

We present measurements of the microlensing optical depth and event rate toward the Galactic bulge using the dataset from the 2006--2014 MOA-II survey, which covers 22 bulge fields spanning ~42 deg^2 between -5 deg < l < 10 deg and -7 deg <…

We present the analysis of the binary-lens microlensing event OGLE-2017-BLG-0537. The light curve of the event exhibits two strong caustic-crossing spikes among which the second caustic crossing was resolved by high-cadence surveys. It is…

Gravitational microlensing is known to be an impressive tool for searching dark, small, and compact objects that are missed by the usual astronomical observations. In this paper, by analysing multiple images acquired by DECam, we present…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-12 A. Franco , A. A. Nucita , F. De Paolis , F. Strafella

Many recent observational and theoretical studies suggest that globular clusters (GCs) host compact object populations large enough to play dominant roles in their overall dynamical evolution. Yet direct detection, particularly of black…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-13 Fulya Kıroğlu , Newlin C. Weatherford , Kyle Kremer , Claire S. Ye , Giacomo Fragione , Frederic A. Rasio

The properties of asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars in the Local Group galaxy M32 are investigated using ground and space-based observations that span the 1 - 8um wavelength interval, with the goal of demonstrating the utility of infrared…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 T. J. Davidge

Current microlensing surveys are sensitive to free-floating planets down to Earth-mass objects. All published microlensing events attributed to unbound planets were identified based on their short timescale (below two days), but lacked an…

Microlensing events have historically been discovered throughout the Galactic bulge and plane by surveys designed solely for that purpose. We conduct the first multi-year search for microlensing events on the Zwicky Transient Facility…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-26 Michael S. Medford , Natasha S. Abrams , Jessica R. Lu , Peter Nugent , Casey Y. Lam

In this paper, we report the discovery of a binary composed of a brown dwarf and a low-mass M dwarf from the observation of the microlensing event OGLE-2014-BLG-0257. Resolution of the very short-lasting caustic crossing combined with the…

For microlensing case angular distances between images or typical astrometric shifts due to microlensing are about $10^{-5}-10^{-6} \mu as$. Such an angular resolution will be reached with the space space--ground interferometer Radioastron.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander F. Zakharov

We report the analysis of the microlensing event OGLE-2018-BLG-0677. A small feature in the light curve of the event leads to the discovery that the lens is a star-planet system. Although there are two degenerate solutions that could not be…

If a light-emitting star is responsible for a gravitational microlensing event, the lens can be characterized by analyzing the blended light from the lens. In this paper, we investigate the feasibility of characterizing lenses by using this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Cheongho Han