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JWST’s PEARLS: A Candidate Massive Binary Star System in a Lensed Galaxy at Redshift 0.94

The Astrophysical Journal
Massive stars at cosmological distances can be individually detected during transient microlensing events, when gravitational lensing magnifications may exceed μ  ≈ 1000.
Hayley Williams, Patrick L. Kelly, Emmanouil Zapartas, Rogier A. Windhorst, Christopher J. Conselice, Seth H. Cohen, Birendra Dhanasingham, José M. Diego, Alexei V. Filippenko, Brenda L. Frye, Benne W. Holwerda, Terry J. Jones, Anton M. Koekemoer, Ashish Kumar Meena, Massimo Ricotti, Clayton D. Robertson, Payaswini Saikia, Bangzheng Sun, S. P. Willner, Haojing Yan, Adi Zitrin   +20 more
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Mass Production of 2023 KMTNet Microlensing Planets. II. Two Planets and A Brown Dwarf

The Astronomical Journal
To expand the homogeneous microlensing planetary sample of the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet), we investigate six planetary candidates identified by the AnomalyFinder search in the 2023 prime-field data, namely KMT-2023-BLG-1592, OGLE-2023-
Zhixing Li, Hongyu Li, Weicheng Zang, Yoon-Hyun Ryu, Andrzej Udalski, Takahiro Sumi, Hongjing Yang, Yuchen Tang, Jiyuan Zhang, Shude Mao, (Leading Authors), Michael D. Albrow, Sun-Ju Chung, Andrew Gould, Cheongho Han, Kyu- Ha Hwang, Youn Kil Jung, In-Gu Shin, Yossi Shvartzvald, Jennifer C. Yee, 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), Przemek Mróz, Michał K. Szymański, Jan Skowron, Radoslaw Poleski, Igor Soszyński, Paweł Pietrukowicz, Szymon Kozłowski, Krzysztof A. Rybicki, Patryk Iwanek, Krzysztof Ulaczyk, Marcin Wrona, Mariusz Gromadzki, Mateusz J. Mróz, (The OGLE Collaboration), Fumio Abe, Ken Bando, David P. Bennett, Aparna Bhattacharya, Ian A. Bond, Akihiko Fukui, Ryusei Hamada, Shunya Hamada, Naoto Hamasak, Yuki Hirao, Stela Ishitani Silva, Naoki Koshimoto, Yutaka Matsubara, Shota Miyazaki, Yasushi Muraki, Tutumi Nagai, Kansuke Nunota, Greg Olmschenk, Clément Ranc, Nicholas J. Rattenbury, Yuki Satoh, Daisuke Suzuki, Sean Terry, Paul J. Tristram, Aikaterini Vandorou, Hibiki Yama, (The MOA Collaboration)   +69 more
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Binary-lens Microlensing Degeneracy: Impact on Planetary Sensitivity and Mass-ratio Function

The Astronomical Journal
Gravitational microlensing is a unique method for discovering cold planets across a broad mass range. Reliable statistics of the microlensing planets require accurate sensitivity estimates.
Yuxin Shang, Hongjing Yang, Jiyuan Zhang, Shude Mao, Andrew Gould, Weicheng Zang, Qiyue Qian, Jennifer C. Yee   +7 more
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Revisiting a Quasar Microlensing Event Towards AGN J1249+3449

Universe
The gravitational wave event GW190521 seems to be the only BH merger event possibly correlated with an electromagnetic counterpart, which appeared about 34 days after the GW event.
Mario Cazzolla, Francesco De Paolis, Antonio Franco, Achille Nucita   +3 more
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microJAX: A Differentiable Framework for Microlensing Modeling with GPU-accelerated Image-centered Ray Shooting

The Astrophysical Journal
We introduce microJAX , the first fully differentiable implementation of the image-centered ray shooting algorithm for gravitational microlensing. Built on JAX and its XLA just-in-time compiler, microJAX exploits GPU parallelism while providing exact ...
Shota Miyazaki, Hajime Kawahara
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Spin Precession Signatures as an Indicator of Microlensing in Strongly Lensed Gravitational Waves

The Astrophysical Journal
Microlensing by the stellar field in a strong-lensing galaxy can introduce wave-optics distortions into the waveforms of strongly lensed gravitational waves (SLGWs).
Xikai Shan, Huan Yang, Shude Mao, Otto A. Hannuksela   +3 more
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Prediction of Astrometric and Timing Microlensing Events with Pulsars by ATNF Catalog and Gaia DR3

The Astrophysical Journal
Determining the mass of neutron stars is crucial for understanding their formation, evolution, and interior structure. Currently, only a few dozen neutron stars have had their masses measured, and most of them belong to binary systems. However, there are
Xu Lu, Yi Xie
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A Fast Concentric-disk Contour Integration Method for Microlensing Limb-darkening Effect

The Astronomical Journal
Incorporating limb darkening is a computationally demanding step in contour-integration-based microlensing modeling. Conventional concentric-ring integration is incompatible with high-order quadrature schemes, limiting efficiency.
Suwei Wang
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KMT-2025-BLG-1616Lb: First Microlensing Bound Planet From DREAMS

The Astronomical Journal
We present observations and analysis of the bound planetary microlensing event KMT-2025-BLG-1616. The planetary signal was captured by the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network and the Dark Energy Camera Rogue Earths and Mars Survey (DREAMS).
Hongjing Yang, Weicheng Zang, Yoon-Hyun Ryu, Takahiro Sumi, Jiyuan Zhang, Hongyu Li, Cheongho Han, (Leading Authors), Yuchen Tang, Qiyue Qian, Zhixing Li, Yuxin Shang, Xikai Shan, Shude Mao, Guillermo Damke, Alfredo Zenteno, Steve Heathcote, Konstantina Boutsia, Przemek Mróz, Xiurui Zhao, Matthew Penny, Sean Terry, Patrick Tamburo, Timothy Cunningham, Quanzhi Ye, Eric W. Peng, Rachel Street, Katarzyna Kruszyńska, Etienne Bachelet, Yiannis Tsapras, Markus Hundertmark, (The DREAMS Collaboration), Michael D. Albrow, Sun-Ju Chung, Andrew Gould, Kyu-Ha Hwang, Youn Kil Jung, In-Gu Shin, Yossi Shvartzvald, Jennifer C. Yee, Dong-Jin Kim, Chung-Uk Lee, Byeong-Gon Park, (The KMTNet Collaboration), David P. Bennett, Ian A. Bond, Ryusei Hamada, Yuki Hirao, Asahi Idei, Shuma Makida, Shota Miyazaki, Tutumi Nagai, Togo Nagano, Seiya Nakayama, Mayu Nishio, Kansuke Nunota, Ryo Ogawa, Ryunosuke Oishi, Yui Okumoto, Nicholas J. Rattenbury, Yuki K. Satoh, Daisuke Suzuki, Motohide Tamura, Takuto Tamaoki, Hibiki Yama, (The PRIME Collaboration)   +65 more
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Jupiter-like planets might be common in a low-density environment. [PDF]

Nat Commun, 2023
Gratton R, Mesa D, Bonavita M, Zurlo A, Marino S, Kervella P, Desidera S, D'Orazi V, Rigliaco E.   +8 more
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