Detectability of Orbital Motion in Stellar Binary and Planetary Microlenses [PDF]
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.
Albrow +72 more
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Dark Matter Halos from the Inside Out
The balance of evidence indicates that individual galaxies and groups or clusters of galaxies are embedded in enormous distributions of cold, weakly interacting dark matter. These dark matter “halos” provide the scaffolding for all luminous structures in the universe, and their properties comprise an essential part of the current cosmological model.
James E. Taylor, Rob Ivison
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Automated Detection of Short Optical Transients of Astrophysical Origin in Real Time
The detection of short optical transients of astrophysical origin in real time is an important task for existing robotic telescopes. The faster a new optical transient is detected, the earlier follow‐up observations can be started. The sooner the object is identified, the more data can be collected before the source fades away, particularly in the most
Marcin Sokołowski +4 more
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Possible Gravitational Microlensing Events in the Optical Lightcurve of Active Galaxy S5 0716+714
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 +3 more
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Detectability of extrasolar moons as gravitational microlenses [PDF]
We evaluate gravitational lensing as a technique for the detection of extrasolar moons. Since 2004 gravitational microlensing has been successfully applied as a detection method for extrasolar planets.
Liebig, Christine, Wambsganss, Joachim
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Orbital motion effects in astrometric microlensing [PDF]
We investigate lens orbital motion in astrometric microlensing and its detectability. In microlensing events, the light centroid shift in the source trajectory (the astrometric trajectory) falls off much more slowly than the light amplification as the ...
Sajadian, Sedighe
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OGLE-2017-BLG-1130: The First Binary Gravitational Microlens Detected From Spitzer Only [PDF]
We analyze the binary gravitational microlensing event OGLE-2017-BLG-1130 (mass ratio q~0.45), the first published case in which the binary anomaly was only detected by the Spitzer Space Telescope.
Albrow, M. +41 more
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OGLE-2014-BLG-0289: Precise Characterization of a Quintuple-peak Gravitational Microlensing Event [PDF]
We present the analysis of the binary-microlensing event OGLE-2014-BLG-0289. The event light curve exhibits five very unusual peaks, four of which were produced by caustic crossings and the other by a cusp approach.
A. Bhattacharya +93 more
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OGLE-2013-BLG-0578L: Microlensing Binary Composed of A Brown Dwarf And An M Dwarf
Determining physical parameters of binary microlenses is hampered by the lack of information about the angular Einstein radius due to the difficulty of resolving caustic crossings.
A. Udalski +12 more
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The first radial velocity measurements of a microlensing event: no evidence for the predicted binary
The gravitational microlensing technique allows the discovery of exoplanets around stars distributed in the disk of the galaxy towards the bulge. However, the alignment of two stars that led to the discovery is unique over the timescale of a human life ...
Beaulieu, J. -P. +7 more
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