A Close Binary Lens Revealed by the Microlensing Event Gaia20bof
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 +27 more
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Twinkle: A GPU-based Binary-lens Microlensing Code with the Contour Integration Method
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]
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 +93 more
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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 +5 more
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PLANETARY AND OTHER SHORT BINARY MICROLENSING EVENTS FROM THE MOA SHORT-EVENT ANALYSIS
We present the analysis of four candidate short duration binary microlensing events from the 2006-2007 MOA Project short event analysis. These events were discovered as a byproduct of an analysis designed to find short timescale single lens events that ...
D P Bennett, Akihiko Fukui, Y Itow
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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 +1 more
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Detecting Multiplanetary Systems with Gravitational Microlensing and the Roman Space Telescope
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
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 +82 more
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Beyond Caustic Crossings: Properties of Binary Microlensing Light Curves [PDF]
Binary microlensing light curves have a variety of morphologies. Many are indistinguishable from point lens light curves. Of those that deviate from the point lens form, caustic crossing light curves have tended to dominate identified binary lens events.
Christopher Night +8 more
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Astrometric Method to Break the Photometric Degeneracy between Binary-source and Planetary Microlensing Perturbations [PDF]
An extra-solar planet can be detected by microlensing because the planet can perturb the smooth lensing light curve created by the primary lens. However, it was shown by Gaudi that a subset of binary-source events can produce light curves that closely ...
Cheongho Han +4 more
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