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Fast, flexible, and accurate evaluation of gravitational-wave Malmquist bias with machine learning

Many astronomical surveys are limited by the brightness of the sources, and gravitational-wave searches are no exception. The detectability of gravitational waves from merging binaries is affected by the mass and spin of the constituent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-04 Colm Talbot , Eric Thrane

Signatures of rotating binaries in micro-lensing experiments

Gravitational microlensing offers a powerful method with which to probe a variety of binary-lens systems, as the binarity of the lens introduces deviations from the typical (single-lens) Paczy\'nski behaviour in the event light curves.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 A. A. Nucita , M. Giordano , F. De Paolis , G. Ingrosso

OGLE-2016-BLG-0263L\lowercase{b}: Microlensing Detection of a Very Low-mass Binary Companion Through a Repeating Event Channel

We report the discovery of a planet-mass companion to the microlens OGLE-2016-BLG-0263L. Unlike most low-mass companions that were detected through perturbations to the smooth and symmetric light curves produced by the primary, the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-13 C. Han , A. Udalski , A. Gould , I. A. Bond , M. D. Albrow , S. -J. Chung , Y. K. Jung , Y. -H. Ryu , I. -G. Shin , J. C. Yee , W. Zhu , S. -M. Cha , S. -L. Kim , D. -J. Kim , C. -U. Lee , Y. Lee , B. -G. Park , J. Skowron , P. Mróz , P. Pietrukowicz , S. Kozłowski , R. Poleski , M. K. Szymański , I. Soszyński , K. Ulaczyk , M. Pawlak , F. Abe , Y. Asakura , R. Barry , D. P. Bennett , A. Bhattacharya , M. Donachie , P. Evans , A. Fukui , Y. Hirao , Y. Itow , N. Koshimoto , M. C. A. Li , C. H. Ling , K. Masuda , Y. Matsubara , Y. Muraki , M. Nagakane , K. Ohnishi , C. Ranc , N. J. Rattenbury , To. Saito , A. Sharan , D. J. Sullivan , T. Sumi , D. Suzuki , P. J. Tristram , T. Yamada , T. Yamada , A. Yonehara

Predictions for the Rates of Compact Binary Coalescences Observable by Ground-based Gravitational-wave Detectors

We present an up-to-date, comprehensive summary of the rates for all types of compact binary coalescence sources detectable by the Initial and Advanced versions of the ground-based gravitational-wave detectors LIGO and Virgo. Astrophysical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-13 LIGO Scientific Collaboration , Virgo Collaboration , J. Abadie , B. P. Abbott , R. Abbott , M Abernathy , T. Accadia , F. Acernese , C. Adams , R. Adhikari , P. Ajith , B. Allen , G. Allen , E. Amador Ceron , R. S. Amin , S. B. Anderson , W. G. Anderson , F. Antonucci , S. Aoudia , M. A. Arain , M. Araya , M. Aronsson , K. G. Arun , Y. Aso , S. Aston , P. Astone , D. E. Atkinson , P. Aufmuth , C. Aulbert , S. Babak , P. Baker , G. Ballardin , S. Ballmer , D. Barker , S. Barnum , F. Barone , B. Barr , P. Barriga , L. Barsotti , M. Barsuglia , M. A. Barton , I. Bartos , R. Bassiri , M. Bastarrika , J. Bauchrowitz , Th. S. Bauer , B. Behnke , M. G. Beker , M. Benacquista , A. Bertolini , J. Betzwieser , N. Beveridge , P. T. Beyersdorf , S. Bigotta , I. A. Bilenko , G. Billingsley , J. Birch , S. Birindelli , R. Biswas , M. Bitossi , M. A. Bizouard , E. Black , J. K. Blackburn , L. Blackburn , D. Blair , B. Bland , M. Blom , A. Blomberg , C. Boccara , O. Bock , T. P. Bodiya , R. Bondarescu , F. Bondu , L. Bonelli , R. Bork , M. Born , S. Bose , L. Bosi , M. Boyle , S. Braccini , C. Bradaschia , P. R. Brady , V. B. Braginsky , J. E. Brau , J. Breyer , D. O. Bridges , A. Brillet , M. Brinkmann , V. Brisson , M. Britzger , A. F. Brooks , D. A. Brown , R. Budzyński , T. Bulik , H. J. Bulten , A. Buonanno , J. Burguet--Castell , O. Burmeister , D. Buskulic , R. L. Byer , L. Cadonati , G. Cagnoli , E. Calloni , J. B. Camp , E. Campagna , P. Campsie , J. Cannizzo , K. C. Cannon , B. Canuel , J. Cao , C. Capano , F. Carbognani , S. Caride , S. Caudill , M. Cavaglià , F. Cavalier , R. Cavalieri , G. Cella , C. Cepeda , E. Cesarini , T. Chalermsongsak , E. Chalkley , P. Charlton , E. Chassande-Mottin , S. Chelkowski , Y. Chen , A. Chincarini , N. Christensen , S. S. Y. Chua , C. T. Y. Chung , D. Clark , J. Clark , J. H. Clayton , F. Cleva , E. Coccia , C. N. Colacino , J. Colas , A. Colla , M. Colombini , R. Conte , D. Cook , T. R. Corbitt , C. Corda , N. Cornish , A. Corsi , C. A. Costa , J. -P. Coulon , D. Coward , D. C. Coyne , J. D. E. Creighton , T. D. Creighton , A. M. Cruise , R. M. Culter , A. Cumming , L. Cunningham , E. Cuoco , K. Dahl , S. L. Danilishin , R. Dannenberg , S. D'Antonio , K. Danzmann , A. Dari , K. Das , V. Dattilo , B. Daudert , M. Davier , G. Davies , A. Davis , E. J. Daw , R. Day , T. Dayanga , R. De Rosa , D. DeBra , J. Degallaix , M. del Prete , V. Dergachev , R. DeRosa , R. DeSalvo , P. Devanka , S. Dhurandhar , L. Di Fiore , A. Di Lieto , I. Di Palma , M. Di Paolo Emilio , A. Di Virgilio , M. Díaz , A. Dietz , F. Donovan , K. L. Dooley , E. E. Doomes , S. Dorsher , E. S. D. Douglas , M. Drago , R. W. P. Drever , J. C. Driggers , J. Dueck , J. -C. Dumas , T. Eberle , M. Edgar , M. Edwards , A. Effler , P. Ehrens , R. Engel , T. Etzel , M. Evans , T. Evans , V. Fafone , S. Fairhurst , Y. Fan , B. F. Farr , D. Fazi , H. Fehrmann , D. Feldbaum , I. Ferrante , F. Fidecaro , L. S. Finn , I. Fiori , R. Flaminio , M. Flanigan , K. Flasch , S. Foley , C. Forrest , E. Forsi , N. Fotopoulos , J. -D. Fournier , J. Franc , S. Frasca , F. Frasconi , M. Frede , M. Frei , Z. Frei , A. Freise , R. Frey , T. T. Fricke , D. Friedrich , P. Fritschel , V. V. Frolov , P. Fulda , M. Fyffe , L. Gammaitoni , J. A. Garofoli , F. Garufi , G. Gemme , E. Genin , A. Gennai , I. Gholami , S. Ghosh , J. A. Giaime , S. Giampanis , K. D. Giardina , A. Giazotto , C. Gill , E. Goetz , L. M. Goggin , G. González , M. L. Gorodetsky , S. Goßler , R. Gouaty , C. Graef , M. Granata , A. Grant , S. Gras , C. Gray , R. J. S. Greenhalgh , A. M. Gretarsson , C. Greverie , R. Grosso , H. Grote , S. Grunewald , G. M. Guidi , E. K. Gustafson , R. Gustafson , B. Hage , P. Hall , J. M. Hallam , D. Hammer , G. Hammond , J. Hanks , C. Hanna , J. Hanson , J. Harms , G. M. Harry , I. W. Harry , E. D. Harstad , K. Haughian , K. Hayama , J. Heefner , H. Heitmann , P. Hello , I. S. Heng , A. Heptonstall , M. Hewitson , S. Hild , E. Hirose , D. Hoak , K. A. Hodge , K. Holt , D. J. Hosken , J. Hough , E. Howell , D. Hoyland , D. Huet , B. Hughey , S. Husa , S. H. Huttner , T. Huynh--Dinh , D. R. Ingram , R. Inta , T. Isogai , A. Ivanov , P. Jaranowski , W. W. Johnson , D. I. Jones , G. Jones , R. Jones , L. Ju , P. Kalmus , V. Kalogera , S. Kandhasamy , J. Kanner , E. Katsavounidis , K. Kawabe , S. Kawamura , F. Kawazoe , W. Kells , D. G. Keppel , A. Khalaidovski , F. Y. Khalili , E. A. Khazanov , C. Kim , H. Kim , P. J. King , D. L. Kinzel , J. S. Kissel , S. Klimenko , V. Kondrashov , R. Kopparapu , S. Koranda , I. Kowalska , D. Kozak , T. Krause , V. Kringel , S. Krishnamurthy , B. Krishnan , A. Królak , G. Kuehn , J. Kullman , R. Kumar , P. Kwee , M. Landry , M. Lang , B. Lantz , N. Lastzka , A. Lazzarini , P. Leaci , J. Leong , I. Leonor , N. Leroy , N. Letendre , J. Li , T. G. F. Li , H. Lin , P. E. Lindquist , N. A. Lockerbie , D. Lodhia , M. Lorenzini , V. Loriette , M. Lormand , G. Losurdo , P. Lu , J. Luan , M. Lubinski , A. Lucianetti , H. Lück , A. Lundgren , B. Machenschalk , M. MacInnis , J. M. Mackowski , M. Mageswaran , K. Mailand , E. Majorana , C. Mak , N. Man , I. Mandel , V. Mandic , M. Mantovani , F. Marchesoni , F. Marion , S. Márka , Z. Márka , E. Maros , J. Marque , F. Martelli , I. W. Martin , R. M. Martin , J. N. Marx , K. Mason , A. Masserot , F. Matichard , L. Matone , R. A. Matzner , N. Mavalvala , R. McCarthy , D. E. McClelland , S. C. McGuire , G. McIntyre , G. McIvor , D. J. A. McKechan , G. Meadors , M. Mehmet , T. Meier , A. Melatos , A. C. Melissinos , G. Mendell , D. F. Menéndez , R. A. Mercer , L. Merill , S. Meshkov , C. Messenger , M. S. Meyer , H. Miao , C. Michel , L. Milano , J. Miller , Y. Minenkov , Y. Mino , S. Mitra , V. P. Mitrofanov , G. Mitselmakher , R. Mittleman , B. Moe , M. Mohan , S. D. Mohanty , S. R. P. Mohapatra , D. Moraru , J. Moreau , G. Moreno , N. Morgado , A. Morgia , T. Morioka , K. Mors , S. Mosca , V. Moscatelli , K. Mossavi , B. Mours , C. MowLowry , G. Mueller , S. Mukherjee , A. Mullavey , H. Müller-Ebhardt , J. Munch , P. G. Murray , T. Nash , R. Nawrodt , J. Nelson , I. Neri , G. Newton , A. Nishizawa , F. Nocera , D. Nolting , E. Ochsner , J. O'Dell , G. H. Ogin , R. G. Oldenburg , B. O'Reilly , R. O'Shaughnessy , C. Osthelder , D. J. Ottaway , R. S. Ottens , H. Overmier , B. J. Owen , A. Page , G. Pagliaroli , L. Palladino , C. Palomba , Y. Pan , C. Pankow , F. Paoletti , M. A. Papa , S. Pardi , M. Pareja , M. Parisi , A. Pasqualetti , R. Passaquieti , D. Passuello , P. Patel , M. Pedraza , L. Pekowsky , S. Penn , C. Peralta , A. Perreca , G. Persichetti , M. Pichot , M. Pickenpack , F. Piergiovanni , M. Pietka , L. Pinard , I. M. Pinto , M. Pitkin , H. J. Pletsch , M. V. Plissi , R. Poggiani , F. Postiglione , M. Prato , V. Predoi , L. R. Price , M. Prijatelj , M. Principe , S. Privitera , R. Prix , G. A. Prodi , L. 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Planet Sensitivity from Combined Ground- and Space-based Microlensing Observations

To move one step forward toward a Galactic distribution of planets, we present the first planet sensitivity analysis for microlensing events with simultaneous observations from space and the ground. We present this analysis for two such…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-02 Wei Zhu , Andrew Gould , Charles Beichman , Sebastiano Calchi Novati , Sean Carey , B. Scott Gaudi , Calen B. Henderson , Matthew Penny , Yossi Shvartzvald , Jennifer C. Yee , A. Udalski , R. Poleski , J. Skowron , S. Kozlowski , P. Mroz , P. Pietrukowicz , G. Pietrzynski , M. K. Szymanski , I. Soszynski , K. Ulaczyk , L. Wyrzykowski , F. Abe , R. K. Barry , D. P. Bennett , A. Bhattacharya , I. A. Bond , M. Freeman , A. Fukui , Y. Hirao , Y. Itow , N. Koshimoto , H. Ling , K. Masuda , Y. Matsubara , Y. Muraki , M. Nagakane , K. Ohnishi , To. Saito , D. J. Sullivan , T. Sumi , D. Suzuki , P. J. Tristram , N. Rattenbury , Y. Wakiyama , A. Yonehara , D. Maoz , S. Kaspi , M. Friedmann

Gravitational Microlensing, The Distance Scale, And The Ages

A high optical depth to gravitational microlensing towards the galactic bulge is consistent with current models of the galactic bar. The low optical depth towards the LMC can probably be accounted for by the ordinary stars in our galaxy and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Bohdan Paczynski

Modelling the host galaxies of binary compact object mergers with observational scaling relations

The merger rate density evolution of binary compact objects and the properties of their host galaxies carry crucial information to understand the sources of gravitational waves. Here, we present galaxyRate, a new code that estimates the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-29 Filippo Santoliquido , Michela Mapelli , M. Celeste Artale , Lumen Boco

Astrometric Microlensing: A Channel to Detect Multiple Lens Systems

If a source star is gravitationally microlensed by a multiple lens system, the resulting light curve can have significant deviations from the standard form of a single lens event. The chance to produce significant deviations becomes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Cheongho Han

Reconciling the predictions of microlensing analysis with radial velocity measurements for OGLE-2011-BLG-0417

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

Self-Microlensing in Compact Binary Systems

The signature of the self-microlensing in compact binaries (white dwarfs, neutron stars and black holes) is a flare with the characteristic time of typically a few minutes. The probability of detecting these microlensing events can be as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Bo Qin , Xiang-Ping Wu , Zhenlong Zou

The Hollywood Strategy for Microlensing Detection of Planets

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

Finding the Brightest Galactic Bulge Microlensing Events with a Small Aperture Telescope and Image Subtraction

Following the suggestion of Gould and Depoy (1998) we investigate the feasibility of studying the brightest microlensing events towards the Galactic bulge using a small aperture (~10 cm) telescope. We used one of the HAT telescopes to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-05-01 D. M. Nataf , K. Z. Stanek , G. A. Bakos

Chromatic and spectroscopic signatures of microlensing events as a tool for the gravitational imaging of stars

The detection of microlensing events from stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud and in the Galactic bulge raise important constraints on the distribution of dark matter and on galactic structure, although some events may be due to a new type…

Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 David Valls-Gabaud

Diffractive Microlensing II: Substellar Disk and Halo Objects

Microlensing is generally studied in the geometric optics limit. However, diffraction may be important when nearby substellar objects lens occult distant stars. In particular the effects of diffraction become more important as the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-10-05 Jeremy S. Heyl

Contact Stars in Microlensing Surveys

A brief summary of properties of the contact binaries is presented, with the goal to stress the unsolved problems of their formation and evolution as well as their potential contribution to studies of Galactic stellar populations. The first…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Slavek Rucinski

On the detection and precise localisation of merging black holes events through strong gravitational lensing

To unlock the full spectrum of astrophysical and cosmological applications of gravitational-wave detections, it is essential to localise the associated black-hole mergers to high precision inside their host galaxies. One possible method to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-01 Ewoud Wempe , Léon V. E. Koopmans , A. Renske A. C. Wierda , Otto Akseli Hannuksela , Chris van den Broeck

Detecting Black-Hole Binary Clustering via the Second-Generation Gravitational-Wave Detectors

The first discovery of the gravitational wave (GW) event, GW150914, suggests a higher merger rate of black-hole (BH) binaries. If this is true, a number of BH binaries will be observed via the second-generation GW detectors, and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-13 Toshiya Namikawa , Atsushi Nishizawa , Atsushi Taruya

Fast Parameter Estimation of Binary Mergers for Multimessenger Followup

Significant human and observational resources have been dedicated to electromagnetic followup of gravitational-wave events detected by Advanced LIGO and Virgo. As the sensitivity of LIGO and Virgo improves, the rate of sources detected will…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-16 Daniel Finstad , Duncan A. Brown

Orbital Motion During Gravitational Lensing Events

Gravitational lensing events provide unique opportunities to discover and study planetary systems and binaries. Here we build on previous work to explore the role that orbital motion can play in both identifying and learning more about…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-25 Rosanne Di Stefano , Ann Esin

Microlensing Constraints on the Frequency of Jupiter-Mass Companions: Analysis of Five Years of PLANET Photometry

We analyze five years of PLANET photometry of microlensing events toward the Galactic bulge to search for the short-duration deviations from single lens light curves that are indicative of the presence of planetary companions to the primary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 B. S. Gaudi , M. D. Albrow , J. An , J. -P. Beaulieu , J. A. R. Caldwell , D. L. DePoy , M. Dominik , A. Gould , J. Greenhill , K. Hill , S. Kane , R. Martin , J. Menzies , R. M. Naber , J. -W. Pel , R. W. Pogge , K. R. Pollard , P. D. Sackett , K. C. Sahu , P. Vermaak , P. M. Vreeswijk , R. Watson , A. Williams , The PLANET Collaboration