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A Close Binary Lens Revealed by the Microlensing Event Gaia20bof

The Astronomical Journal
During the last 25 yr, hundreds of binary stars and planets have been discovered toward the Galactic bulge by microlensing surveys. Thanks to a new generation of large-sky surveys, it is now possible to regularly detect microlensing events across the ...
E. Bachelet, P. Rota, V. Bozza, P. Zieliński, Y. Tsapras, M. Hundertmark, J. Wambsganss, Ł. Wyrzykowski, P. J. Mikołajczyk, R. A. Street, R. Figuera Jaimes, A. Cassan, M. Dominik, D. A. H. Buckley, S. Awiphan, N. Nakhaharutai, S. Zola, K. A. Rybicki, M. Gromadzki, K. Howil, N. Ihanec, M. Jabłońska, K. Kruszyńska, K. Kruszyńska, U. Pylypenko, M. Ratajczak, M. Sitek, M. Rabus   +27 more
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Twinkle: A GPU-based Binary-lens Microlensing Code with the Contour Integration Method

The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
With the rapidly increasing rate of microlensing planet detections, microlensing modeling software faces significant challenges in computation efficiency.
Suwei Wang, Lile Wang, Subo Dong
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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 [PDF]

The Astronomical Journal, 2023
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 effect can fit
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, Leading Authors, 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, The MOA Collaboration, 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, The OGLE Collaboration, 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, The KMTNet Collaboration, 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, The MiNDSTEp Collaboration   +93 more
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Gaia20fnr: A binary-lens microlensing event with full orbital motion revealed by four space telescopes

Astronomy & Astrophysics
The microlensing event Gaia20fnr is a long-duration, non-caustic-crossing binary-lens event located at a high Galactic latitude. Triggered by a photometric rise detected by the Gaia space mission, the event was followed up with observations from multiple
Wicker M., Wyrzykowski Ł., Hundertmark M., Rybicki K. A., Zieliński P., Stonkutė E., Gromadzki M., Maskoliūnas M., Ihanec N., Ratajczak M., Bachelet E., Kruszyńska K., Dominik M., Buckley D. A. H., Gezer I., Chené A.-N., Mikołajczyk P., Kotysz K., Majumdar J., Pakštiene E., Zdanavičius J., Čepas V., Jonauskaitė U., Bozza V., Cassan A., Figuera Jaimes R., Rabus M., Rota P., Street R. A., Tsapras Y., Wambsganss J., Awiphan S., Brincat S. M., Budzik Z., Davidson J. W., Dymock R., Galdies C., Godunova V., Hambsch F.-J., Jablonska M., Kowalik P., Kvernadze T., Larma M., Makowska M., Markus Y., Merc J., Michniewicz O., Motylinski M., Popowicz A., Radziwonowicz M., Reichart D., Romanov F. D., Simon A. O., Trzcionkowski P., Wróbel E., Zejmo M., Zola S.   +56 more
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Assessing the Impact of Binary Systems on Microlensing Using SPISEA and PopSyCLE Population Simulations

The Astrophysical Journal
Gravitational microlensing provides a unique opportunity to probe the mass distribution of stars, black holes, and other objects in the Milky Way. Population simulations are necessary to interpret results from microlensing surveys.
Natasha S. Abrams, Jessica R. Lu, Casey Y. Lam, Michael S. Medford, Matthew W. Hosek Jr., Sam Rose   +5 more
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A Binary Origin for the First Isolated Stellar-mass Black Hole Detected with Astrometric Microlensing

The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2023
The Milky Way is believed to host hundreds of millions of quiescent stellar-mass black holes (BHs). In the last decade, some of these objects have been potentially uncovered via gravitational microlensing events.
Alejandro Vigna-Gómez, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz   +1 more
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Detecting Multiplanetary Systems with Gravitational Microlensing and the Roman Space Telescope

The Astronomical Journal, 2023
It is plausible that most of the Stars in the Milky Way Galaxy, like the Sun, consist of planetary systems, instead of a single planet. Out of the estimately discovered 3980 planet-hosting stars, about 860 of them are known to be multiplanetary systems ...
Hossein Fatheddin, Sedighe Sajadian
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MOA-2020-BLG-208Lb: Cool Sub-Saturn-mass Planet within Predicted Desert

The Astronomical Journal, 2023
We analyze the MOA-2020-BLG-208 gravitational microlensing event and present the discovery and characterization of a new planet, MOA-2020-BLG-208Lb, with an estimated sub-Saturn mass.
Greg Olmschenk, David P. Bennett, Ian A. Bond, Weicheng Zang, Youn Kil Jung, Jennifer C. Yee, Etienne Bachelet, Leading authors, Fumio Abe, Richard K. Barry, Aparna Bhattacharya, Hirosane Fujii, Akihiko Fukui, Yuki Hirao, Stela Ishitani Silva, Yoshitaka Itow, Rintaro Kirikawa, Iona Kondo, Naoki Koshimoto, Yutaka Matsubara, Sho Matsumoto, Shota Miyazaki, Brandon Munford, Yasushi Muraki, Arisa Okamura, Clément Ranc, Nicholas J. Rattenbury, Yuki Satoh, Takahiro Sumi, Daisuke Suzuki, Taiga Toda, Paul J. Tristram, Aikaterini Vandorou, Hibiki Yama, The MOA Collaboration, Michael D. Albrow, Sang-Mok Cha, Sun-Ju Chung, Andrew Gould, Cheongho Han, Kyu-Ha Hwang, Dong-Jin Kim, Hyoun-Woo Kim, Seung-Lee Kim, Chung-Uk Lee, Dong-Joo Lee, Yongseok Lee, Byeong-Gon Park, Richard W. Pogge, Yoon-Hyun Ryu, In-Gu Shin, Yossi Shvartzvald, The KMTNet Collaboration, Grant Christie, Tony Cooper, John Drummond, Jonathan Green, Steve Hennerley, Jennie McCormick, L. A. G. Monard, Tim Natusch, Ian Porritt, Thiam-Guan Tan, The MicroFUN Collaboration, Shude Mao, Dan Maoz, Matthew T. Penny, Wei Zhu, The MAP Follow-Up Collaboration, V. Bozza, Arnaud Cassan, Martin Dominik, Markus Hundertmark, R. Figuera Jaimes, K. Kruszyńska, K. A. Rybicki, R. A. Street, Y. Tsapras, Joachim Wambsganss, Ł. Wyrzykowski, P. Zieliński, The OMEGA Collaboration, Gioia Rau   +82 more
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Modeling Binary Lenses and Sources with the BAGLE Python Package

The Astrophysical Journal
Gravitational microlensing is a powerful tool that can be used to find and measure the mass of isolated and dark compact objects. In many microlensing events, the lens, the source, or both may be binary systems.
T. Dex Bhadra, J. R. Lu, Natasha S. Abrams, Andrew Scharf, Edward Broadberry, Casey Lam, Macy J. Huston   +6 more
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Possible Gravitational Microlensing Events in the Optical Lightcurve of Active Galaxy S5 0716+714

The Astrophysical Journal, 2023
A well-known active galaxy of the blazar type, S5 0716+714, is characterized by a particularly high-variability duty cycle on short timescales at optical frequencies.
D. Ł. Król, Ł. Stawarz, J. Krzesinski, C. C. Cheung   +3 more
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