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Extreme microlensing events, defined as events with maximum magnification $A_\max\gsim 200$ are a potentially powerful probe of the mass spectrum and spatial distribution of objects along lines of sight toward the Galactic bulge. About 75…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrew Gould

Follow the big stars! I review the theory of detection and parameter measurement of planetary systems by follow-up observations of ongoing microlensing events. Two parameters can generically be measured from the event itself: the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrew Gould

We conducted a project of reinvestigating the 2017--2019 microlensing data collected by the high-cadence surveys with the aim of finding planets that were missed due to the deviations of planetary signals from the typical form of short-term…

Global "second-generation" microlensing surveys aim to discover and characterize extrasolar planets and their frequency, by means of round-the-clock high-cadence monitoring of a large area of the Galactic bulge, in a controlled experiment.…

Quasar microlensing can be used to constrain important astrophysical properties, such as the accretion disk size and the amount of stars in the lensing galaxy. The associated brightness variations over time, in particular high magnification…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-09 Favio Neira , Timo Anguita , Georgios Vernardos

The MPF mission will provide a statistical census of exoplanets with masses greater than 0.1 Earth-masses and orbital separations ranging from 0.5AU to infinity. This includes analogs to all the Solar System's planets except for Mercury, as…

We undertake the first study of two-planet microlensing models recovered from simulations of microlensing events generated by realistic multi-planet systems in which 292 planetary events including 16 two-planet events were detected from…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Wei Zhu , Andrew Gould , Matthew Penny , Shude Mao , Rieul Gendron

Microlensing surveys, which have discovered about a dozen extrasolar planets to date, have focused on the small minority of high-magnification lensing events, which have a high sensitivity to planet detection. In contrast, second-generation…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Yossi Shvartzvald , Dan Maoz

We study the \textit{Roman} sensitivity to exoplanets in the Habitable Zone (HZ). The \textit{Roman}~efficiency for detecting habitable planets is maximized for three classes of planetary microlensing events with close caustic topologies.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-20 Sedighe Sajadian

We propose a new parametrization of the impact parameter u0 and impact angle {\alpha} for microlensing systems composed by an Earth-like Exoplanet around a Solar mass Star at 1 AU. We present the caustic topology of such system, as well as…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 L. de Almeida , J. -D. do Nascimento

K2 Campaign 9 (K2C9) offers the first chance to measure parallaxes and masses of members of the large population of free-floating planets (FFPs) that has previously been inferred from measurements of the rate of short-timescale microlensing…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-29 Matthew T. Penny , Nicolas J. Rattenbury , B. Scott Gaudi , Eamonn Kerins

Microlensing is able to reveal multiple body systems located several kilo-parsec away from the Earth. Since it does not require the measurement of light from the lens, microlensing is sensitive to a range of objects from free-floating…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 E. Bachelet , J. -P. Beaulieu , I. Boisse , A. Santerne , R. A. Street

The event rate and the efficiency of mass estimation for free-floating planet (FFP) microlensing events were determined from the simulation of the simultaneous parallax observations by Euclid, WFIRST, and LSST. The stellar population from…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-13 M. Ban

The detection of anomalies in gravitational microlensing events is nowadays one of the main goals among the microlensing community. In the case of single-lens events, these anomalies can be caused by the finite source effects, that is when…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-12 Lindita Hamolli , Mimoza Hafizi , Francesco De Paolis , Achille A. Nucita

A significant fraction of microlensing planets have been discovered in high-magnification events, and a significant fraction of these events exhibit a double-peak structure at their peak. However, very wide or very close binaries can also…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Cheongho Han , B. Scott Gaudi

We analyze PLANET photometric observations of the caustic-crossing binary-lens microlensing event, EROS BLG-2000-5, and find that modeling the observed light curve requires incorporation of the microlens parallax and the binary orbital…

To provide criteria in the selection of target events preferable for planetary lensing follow-up observations, we investigate the variation of the probability of detecting planetary signals depending on the observables of the lensing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Cheongho Han

Microlensing is the method of exoplanet detection that discovers solar system analog exoplanets. These are planets low in mass located in wide orbits around their host stars. Even though thousands of exoplanets are discovered, they are…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-19 Aparna Bhattacharya