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The MACHO collaboration has recently analyzed 2.1 years of photometric data for about 8.5 million stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). This analysis has revealed 8 candidate microlensing events and a total microlensing optical depth…

Gaudi & Gould (1997) showed that close companions of remote binary systems can be efficiently detected by using gravitational microlensing via the deviations in the lensing light curves induced by the existence of the lens companions. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Heon-Young Chang , Cheongho Han

The interpretation of gravitational microlensing events caused by planetary systems or multiple stars is based on the n-point-mass lens model. The first planets detected by microlensing were well described by the two-point-mass model of a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Kamil Danek , David Heyrovsky

We report the first mass and distance measurement of a caustic-crossing binary system OGLE-2014-BLG-1050L using the space-based microlens parallax method. \emph{Spitzer} captured the second caustic-crossing of the event, which occurred…

The recent discovery of fast transient events near critical curves of massive galaxy clusters, which are interpreted as highly magnified individual stars in giant arcs due to caustic crossing, opens up the possibility of using such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-24 Masamune Oguri , Jose M. Diego , Nick Kaiser , Patrick L. Kelly , Tom Broadhurst

One of the important microlensing applications to stellar atmospheres is the study of spots on stellar surface provided by the high resolution of caustic-crossing binary-lens events. In this paper, we investigate the characteristics of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Kyu-Ha Hwang , Cheongho Han

Despite astrophysical importance of binary star systems, detections are limited to those located in small ranges of separations, distances, and masses and thus it is necessary to use a variety of observational techniques for a complete view…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-14 I. -G. Shin , C. Han , J. -Y. Choi , A. Udalski , T. Sumi , A. Gould , V. Bozza , M. Dominik , P. Fouqué , K. Horne , M. , K. Szymański , M. Kubiak , I. Soszyński , G. Pietrzyński , R. Poleski , K. Ulaczyk , P. Pietrukowicz , S. Kozłowski , J. Skowron , Ł. Wyrzykowski , F. Abe , D. P. Bennett , I. A. Bond , C. S. Botzler , P. Chote , M. Freeman , A. Fukui , K. Furusawa , Y. Itow , S. Kobara , C. H. Ling , K. Masuda , Y. Matsubara , N. Miyake , Y. Muraki , K. Ohmori , K. Ohnishi , N. J. Rattenbury , To. Saito , D. J. Sullivan , D. Suzuki , K. Suzuki , W. L. Sweatman , S. Takino , P. J. Tristram , K. Wada , P. C. M. Yock , D. M. Bramich , C. Snodgrass , I. A. Steele , R. A. Street , Y. Tsapras , K. A. Alsubai , P. Browne , M. J. Burgdorf , S. Calchi Novati , P. Dodds , S. Dreizler , X. -S. Fang , F. Grundahl , C. -H. Gu , S. Hardis , K. Harpsøe , T. C. Hinse , A. Hornstrup , M. Hundertmark , J. Jessen-Hansen , U. G. Jørgensen , N. Kains , E. Kerins , C. Liebig , M. Lund , M. Lunkkvist , L. Mancini , M. Mathiasen , M. T. Penny , S. Rahvar , D. Ricci , G. Scarpetta , J. Skottfelt , J. Southworth , J. Surdej , J. Tregloan-Reed , J. Wambsganss , O. Wertz , L. A. Almeida , V. Batista , G. Christie , D. L. DePoy , Subo Dong , B. S. Gaudi , C. Henderson , F. Jablonski , C. -U. Lee , J. McCormick , D. McGregor , D. Moorhouse , T. Natusch , H. Ngan , S. -Y. Park , R. W. Pogge , T. -G. Tan , G. Thornley , J. C. Yee , M. D. Albrow , E. Bachelet , J. -P. Beaulieu , S. Brillant , A. Cassan , A. A. Cole , E. Corrales , C. Coutures , S. Dieters , D. Dominis Prester , J. Donatowicz , J. Greenhill , D. Kubas , J. -B. Marquette , J. W. Menzies , K. C. Sahu , M. Zub

First, we review the current status of the detection of strong `external' variability in the CLASS gravitational B1600+434, focusing on the 1998 VLA 8.5-GHz and 1998/9 WSRT multi-frequency observations. We show that this data can best be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. V. E. Koopmans , A. G. de Bruyn , J. Wambsganss , C. D. Fassnacht

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

Since the first observation of triple-lens gravitational microlensing in 2006, analyses of six more events have been published by the end of 2018. In three events the lens was a star with two planets; four involved a binary star with a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-30 Kamil Danek , David Heyrovsky

A standard binary microlensing event lightcurve allows just two parameters of the lensing system to be measured: the mass ratio of the companion to its host, and the projected separation of the components in units of the Einstein radius.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-03-17 Matthew T. Penny , Shude Mao , Eamonn Kerins

We use the statistics of caustic crossings induced by microlensing in the lens system Q~2237+0305 to study the lens galaxy peculiar velocity. We calculate the caustic crossing rates for a comprehensive family of stellar mass functions and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 E. Mediavilla , J. Jimenez-Vicente , J. A. Muñoz , T. Mediavilla , O. Ariza

Microlensing light curves are now being monitored with the precision required to detect small perturbations due to planetary companions of the primary lens. Microlensing is complementary to other planetary search techniques in its potential…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 B. Scott Gaudi , Penny D. Sackett

We present detailed analyses of three anomalous microlensing events--KMT-2021-BLG-0209, KMT-2021-BLG-0901, and OGLE-2025-BLG-0356--identified from a systematic re-examination of KMTNet light curves for which previous modeling attempts…

An automated search is carried out for microlensing events using a catalogue of 44554 variable superpixel lightcurves derived from our three-year monitoring program of M31. Each step of our candidate selection is objective and reproducible…

We report the result of the analysis of the light curve of a caustic-crossing binary-lens microlensing event OGLE-2009-BLG-023/MOA-2009-BLG-028. Even though the event was observed solely by survey experiments, we could uniquely determine…

We explore the detection condition of a wide-separation planet through the perturbation induced by the planetary caustic for various microlensing parameters, especially for the size of the source stars. By constructing the fractional…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Yoon-Hyun Ryu , Myeong-Gu Park , Heon-Young Chang , Ki-Won Lee

Gravitational microlensing events are powerful tools for the study of stellar populations. In particular, they can be used to discover and study a variety of binary systems. A large number of binary lenses have already been found through…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-09 Xinyi Guo , Ann Esin , Rosanne Di Stefano , Jeffrey Taylor

Extensive simulations of planetary microlensing are necessary both before and after a survey is conducted: before to design and optimize the survey and after to understand its detection efficiency. The major bottleneck in such computations…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-26 Matthew T. Penny

Current gravitational microlensing surveys are observing hundreds of millions of stars in the Galactic bulge - which makes finding rare microlensing events a challenging tasks. In almost all previous works, microlensing events have been…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-06 Przemek Mroz