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We analyze the microlensing event OGLE-2019-BLG-0304, whose light curve exhibits two distinctive features: a deviation in the peak region and a second bump appearing $\sim 61$~days after the main peak. Although a binary-lens model can…

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Microlens Terrestrial Parallax Mass Measurements: A Rare Probe of Isolated Brown Dwarfs and Free-Floating Planets

Terrestrial microlens parallax is one of the very few methods that can measure the mass and number density of isolated dark low-mass objects, such as old free-floating planets and brown dwarfs. Terrestrial microlens parallax can be measured…

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Bayesian Approach for Determining Microlens System Properties with High-Angular-Resolution Follow-up Imaging

We present the details of the Bayesian analysis on the planetary microlensing event MOA-2016-BLG-227, whose excess flux is likely due to a source/lens companion or an unrelated ambient star, as well as of the assumed prior distributions.…

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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…

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Reanalyses of Anomalous Gravitational Microlensing Events in the OGLE-III Early Warning System Database with Combined Data

We reanalyze microlensing events in the published list of anomalous events that were observed from the OGLE lensing survey conducted during 2004-2008 period. In order to check the existence of possible degenerate solutions and extract extra…

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Full characterization of binary-lens event OGLE-2002-BLG-069 from PLANET observations

We analyze the photometric data obtained by PLANET and OGLE on the caustic-crossing binary-lens microlensing event OGLE-2002-BLG-069. Thanks to the excellent photometric and spectroscopic coverage of the event, we are able to constrain the…

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A Low-Mass Planet with a Possible Sub-Stellar-Mass Host in Microlensing Event MOA-2007-BLG-192

We report the detection of an extrasolar planet of mass ratio q ~ 2 x 10^(-4) in microlensing event MOA-2007-BLG-192. The best fit microlensing model shows both the microlensing parallax and finite source effects, and these can be combined…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. P. Bennett , I. A. Bond , A. Udalski , T. Sumi , F. Abe , A. Fukui , K. Furusawa , J. B. Hearnshaw , S. Holderness , Y. Itow , K. Kamiya , A. V. Korpela , P. M. Kilmartin , W. Lin , C. H. Ling , K. Masuda , Y. Matsubara , N. Miyake , Y. Muraki , M. Nagaya , T. Okumura , K. Ohnishi , Y. C. Perrott , N. J. Rattenbury , T. Sako , To. Saito , S. Sato , L. Skuljan , D. J. Sullivan , W. L. Sweatman , P. J. Tristram , P. C. M. Yock , M. Kubiak , M. K. Szymanski , G. Pietrzynski , I. Soszynski , O. Szewczyk , L. Wyrzykowski , K. Ulaczyk , V. Batista , J. P. Beaulieu , S. Brillant , A. Cassan , P. Fouque , P. Kervella , D. Kubas , J. B. Marquette

OGLE-2017-BLG-1049: Another giant planet microlensing event

We report a giant exoplanet discovery in the microlensing event OGLE-2017-BLG-1049, which is a planet-host star mass ratio of $q=9.53\pm0.39\times10^{-3}$ and has a caustic crossing feature in the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network…

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OGLE-2018-BLG-1185b : A Low-Mass Microlensing Planet Orbiting a Low-Mass Dwarf

We report the analysis of planetary microlensing event OGLE-2018-BLG-1185, which was observed by a large number of ground-based telescopes and by the $Spitzer$ Space Telescope. The ground-based light curve indicates a low planet-host star…

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A Super-Jupiter orbiting a late-type star: A refined analysis of microlensing event OGLE-2012-BLG-0406

We present a detailed analysis of survey and follow-up observations of microlensing event OGLE-2012-BLG-0406 based on data obtained from 10 different observatories. Intensive coverage of the lightcurve, especially the perturbation part,…

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Cross-Matching of OGLE III and GAIA catalogues: Investigation of Dark-lens microlensing candidates

In this work, we use $13$ microlensing candidates with dark lenses from OGLE III catalogue \cite{2016MNRAS.458.3012W} and cross-match them with the GAIA catalogue. We identify the microlensing source stars in the GAIA catalogue by comparing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-10 Amirhosein Dehghani , Sohrab Rahvar

OGLE-2005-BLG-153: Microlensing Discovery and Characterization of A Very Low Mass Binary

The mass function and statistics of binaries provide important diagnostics of the star formation process. Despite this importance, the mass function at low masses remains poorly known due to observational difficulties caused by the…

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OGLE-2015-BLG-1649Lb: A gas giant planet around a low-mass dwarf

We report the discovery of an exoplanet in microlensing event OGLE-2015-BLG-1649. The planet/host-star mass ratio is $q =7.2 \times 10^{-3}$ and the projected separation normalized by the Einstein radius is $s = 0.9$. The upper limit of the…

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Confirmation of the Stellar Binary Microlensing Event, Macho 97-BLG-28

The high-magnification microlensing event MACHO-97-BLG-28 was previously determined to be a binary system composed either of two M dwarfs, or an M dwarf and a brown dwarf. We present a revised light-curve model using additional data from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-26 Joshua W. Blackman , Jean-Philippe Beaulieu , Andrew A. Cole , Aikaterini Vandorou , Naoki Koshimoto , Etienne Bachelet , Aparna Bhattacharya , David Bennett

KMT-2021-BLG-1898: Planetary microlensing event involved with binary source stars

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…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-03 Cheongho Han , Andrew Gould , Doeon Kim , Youn Kil Jung , Michael D. Albrow , Sun-Ju Chung , Kyu-Ha Hwang , Chung-Uk Lee , Yoon-Hyun Ryu , In-Gu Shin , Yossi Shvartzvald , Jennifer C. Yee , Weicheng Zang , Sang-Mok Cha , Dong-Jin Kim , Seung-Lee Kim , Dong-Joo Lee , Yongseok Lee , Byeong-Gon Park , Richard W. Pogge

Microlensing, Brown Dwarfs and GAIA

The GAIA satellite can precisely measure the masses of nearby brown dwarfs and lower main sequence stars by the microlensing effect. The scientific yield is maximised if the microlensing event is also followed with ground-based telescopes…

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OGLE-2016-BLG-0693LB: Probing the Brown Dwarf Desert with Microlensing

We present an analysis of microlensing event OGLE-2016-BLG-0693, based on the survey-only microlensing observations by the OGLE and KMTNet groups. In order to analyze the light curve, we consider the effects of parallax, orbital motion, and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-06 Y. -H. Ryu , A. Udalski , J. C. Yee , M. D. Albrow , S. -J. Chung , A. Gould , C. Han , K. -H. Hwang , Y. K. Jung , I. -G. Shin , W. Zhu , S. -M. Cha , D. -J. Kim , H. -W. Kim , S. -L. Kim , C. -U. Lee , Y. Lee , B. -G. Park , R. W. Pogge , P. Pietrukowicz , S. Kozlowski , R. Poleski , J. Skowron , P. Mroz , M. K. Szymanski , I. Soszynski , M. Pawlak , K. Ulaczyk

New Method to Measure Proper Motions of Microlensed Sources: Application to Candidate Free-Floating-Planet Event MOA-2011-BLG-262

We develop a new method to measure source proper motions in microlensing events, which can partially overcome problems due to blending. It takes advantage of the fact that the source position is known precisely from the microlensing event…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Jan Skowron , Andrzej Udalski , Michał K Szymański , Marcin Kubiak , Grzegorz Pietrzyński , Igor Soszyński , Radosław Poleski , Krzysztof Ulaczyk , Paweł Pietrukowicz , Szymon Kozłowski , Łukasz Wyrzykowski , Andrew Gould

OGLE-2019-BLG-0825: Constraints on the Source System and Effect on Binary-lens Parameters arising from a Five Day Xallarap Effect in a Candidate Planetary Microlensing Event

We present an analysis of microlensing event OGLE-2019-BLG-0825. This event was identified as a planetary candidate by preliminary modeling. We find that significant residuals from the best-fit static binary-lens model exist and a xallarap…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-27 Yuki K. Satoh , Naoki Koshimoto , David P. Bennett , Takahiro Sumi , Nicholas J. Rattenbury , Daisuke Suzuki , Shota Miyazaki , Ian A. Bond , Andrzej Udalski , Andrew Gould , Valerio Bozza , Martin Dominik , Yuki Hirao , Iona Kondo , Rintaro Kirikawa , Ryusei Hamada , Fumio Abe , Richard Barry , Aparna Bhattacharya , Hirosane Fujii , Akihiko Fukui , Katsuki Fujita , Tomoya Ikeno , Stela Ishitani Silva , Yoshitaka Itow , Yutaka Matsubara , Sho Matsumoto , Yasushi Muraki , Kosuke Niwa , Arisa Okamura , Greg Olmschenk , Clément Ranc , Taiga Toda , Mio Tomoyoshi , Paul J. Tristram , Aikaterini Vandorou , Hibiki Yama , Kansuke Yamashita , Przemek Mróz , Radosław Poleski , Jan Skowron , Michał K. Szymański , Radek Poleski , Igor Soszyński , Paweł Pietrukowicz , Szymon Kozłowski , Krzysztof Ulaczyk , Krzysztof A. Rybicki , Patryk Iwanek , Marcin Wrona , Mariusz Gromadzki , Michael D. Albrow , Sun-Ju Chung , Cheongho Han , Kyu-Ha Hwang , Doeon Kim , Youn Kil Jung , Hyoun Woo Kim , Yoon-Hyun Ryu , In-Gu Shin , Yossi Shvartzvald , Hongjing Yang , Jennifer C. Yee , Weicheng Zang , Sang-Mok Cha , Dong-Jin Kim , Seung-Lee Kim , Chung-Uk Lee , Dong-Joo Lee , Yongseok Lee , Byeong-Gon Park , Richard W. Pogge , Uffe G. Jørgensen , Penélope Longa-Peña , Sedighe Sajadian , Jesper Skottfelt , Colin Snodgrass , Jeremy Tregloan-Reed , Nanna Bach-Møller , Martin Burgdorf , Giuseppe D'Ago , Lauri Haikala , James Hitchcock , Markus Hundertmark , Elahe Khalouei , Nuno Peixinho , Sohrab Rahvar , John Southworth , Petros Spyratos

Optical+NIR analysis of a Newly Confirmed Einstein ring at z$\sim$1 from the Kilo-Degree Survey: Dark matter fraction, total and dark matter density slope and IMF

We report the spectroscopic confirmation of a bright blue Einstein ring in the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS) footprint: the Einstein ``blue eye''. Spectroscopic data from X-Shooter at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) show that the lens is a…

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